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Radicalisation or Radicalization is the transformation from passiveness or activism to more revolutionary, militant or extreme postures. Radicalization is often associated with youth, adversity, alienation, social exclusion, poverty, or the perception of injustice to self or others.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• Radicalism
• Institutional radicalization
• Radical left, another term for the far left
• Radical right, another term for the far right
• Extremism, political standpoints that are perceived as revolutionary or extreme
• Radicalism (historical), the Radical Movement which began in late 18th century Britain and spread to continental Europe and Latin America in the 19th century
• Radical Whigs, influential early writers on Radicalism
• Radical Republican (USA), a member of an influential group of American politicians during the Civil War reconstruction
• Radical Party, a political party
• Radicals (UK), parliamentary progressives who were predecessors of the UK Liberal Party (and through them the modern-day Liberal Democrats)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Prominent blog on radicalisation: FREErad!cals
• H.R. 1695: Preventing Radicalism by Exploring and Vetting its Emergence as a National Threat (PREVENT) Act
• The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence : ICSR
• Radicalization as a reaction to failure: an economic model of Islamic extremism
• Women and radicalization
• Christian Science Monitor article: Studies: War radicalized most foreign fighters in Iraq

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