Socio-economic Marginalisation, Fragmentation, and the Lack of Violent Radicalisation: Insights from Greece
摘要
Radicalisation scholarship has largely shunned the study of negative cases even though they might be far more enlightening for our understanding of radicalisation. This chapter explores and interprets the lack of religiously inspired violent radicalisation in Greece. Drawing from interviews with relevant stakeholders, it argues that Greece’s resilience is replete with contradictions and does not stem from a concrete strategy or tailored policies, but rather the lack thereof. Hence, its ‘immunity’ is not built on resilience-producing attributes; it is the hitherto absence of key precipitating factors that could ‘push’ Muslims in Greece towards violent extremism.