Radicalization and Variations of Violence

Daniel Beck is a research fellow at the chair of International Relations, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. He holds a Master degree in Peace and Conflict Studies. His research focus is on discourse analysis, post-structuralist approaches and humour. His recent research focused on the role of humour in social conflicts and radicalization.Dr. Julia Renner-Mugono was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Political Science at Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany. Her PhD thesis focused on water-related conflicts in Kenya and Uganda. Her research focussed on resource conflicts, sustainability issues and how the unavailability of resources are pathways for radicalization processes. She now works as an Environmental and Social Expert at an International Development Organisationen.

• Foreword.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I: Causes and the Constitution of Radicalization.- Chapter 2 Organising Political Violence: Radicalisation and militancy as narrative activity.- Chapter 3 Making Sense of Terrorism and Violence A Case Study.- Chapter 4 Correlates for Foreign Fighters in Tunisia. Protest and Marginalization as predictors for Foreign Fighter mobilization?.- Part II: Approaches to prognosis, de-radicalization and prevention.- Chapter 5 Radicalization and Public Discourse. Government Narratives in Reaction to Terrorist Attacks and their Relevance in Addressing and Preventing Violent Extremism.- Chapter 6 The (non-)escalation of violence during the third Act of the Yellow Vests protests. A critique of interactionist theories of violence.- Chapter 7 Elicitive Peace Education in Polarizing Conflicts over Democracy: A Relational Perspective Complementing Prevention of Radicalization.- Part III: Selected Case Studiesof Radicalization.- Chapter 8 Representation of Kurdish Female Combatants in Western Cinema. A Frame Analysis of Fiction Films on Female Combatants.- Chapter 9 Manifestations of Violence in the Causality of a Radicalization Episode. A Case Study on The Margins of La Paz-Bolivia.- Chapter 10 Radical Politics in Post-conflict Settings.- Chapter 11 Conclusion.