Dounia Bouzar: the difficulties of de-radicalization

Dounia Bouzar: the difficulties of de-radicalization

Dounia BOUZAR, anthropologist and director of the CPDSI (centre for the prevention of sectarian excesses related to Islam) explains the difficulties to overcome to carry out a process of deradicalization to its end. The relational recruitment of a young person is the most complicated aspect to deal with. Teenagers by adhering to an ideology integrate a group from which it is difficult to cut them: "they felt in fusion, valued". These radicalized young people also follow "a digital tribe, that is to say their new virtual friends on the internet". Even when they are supported, these young people can "dive back" if they do not cut off contact with their digital networks. The anthropologist thinks that they should sometimes be put in closed centres without access to the internet to "detox".

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Publication date : 23 October 2016