Homegrown Terrorism and Transformative Learning: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding radicalization
By Alex S. Wilner and Claire-Jehanne Dubouloz
Global Change, Peace and Security
Feb. 2010
Recent studies seem to corroborate the religious-radicalization nexus. In their 2009 study, Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K., Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Laura Gorssman suggest that an “individual’s theological understanding was a relatively strong factor in their radicalization.” Just under 40 percent of their sample of Western jihadists explicitly claimed a “religious motivation” for their violent behaviour.
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