Countering Islamic radicalization and Al Shabaab recruitment within the ethnic Somali population of the United States : an argument for applying best practices for stemming youth gang recruitment and initiation
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Jones, Jeffrey J.
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Rollins, John
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2010-12
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Over the past few years, a spate of attempted plots, lethal attacks, and arrests of American Muslims both at home and overseas has created the perception of a more worrisome development regarding the issue of domestic radicalization and homegrown violent extremism. The individuals involved in these developments have come from a broad cross-section of various ethnic, socioeconomic, cultural, and geographic backgrounds in the United States, making it difficult for law enforcement and the intelligence community to focus their efforts to predict or determine where violent extremists will emerge. This thesis focuses on the Somali-American community in particular and the threat posed by a very small percentage of that community that has, in recent years, been drawn to violent extremist agendas in Somalia. This thesis examines existing best practices that might be leveraged or utilized to combat the radicalizing influences that have affected some Somali-Americans in the past, with the hope that those practices can prevent similar effects in the future.
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Security Studies
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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xvi, 87 p. ;
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