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JIHAD OR RE-INTEGRATION: PATHWAYS OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS AFTER WAR

Descripción del proyecto

Abordar el regreso de los combatientes extranjeros

La cuestión de los combatientes extranjeros es una prioridad en la agenda política, tanto a nivel de los Estados miembros como a nivel europeo. Los principales caldos de cultivo de contratación y contrabando de combatientes extranjeros en Europa están en Bosnia y Kosovo, que sufrieron guerras civiles en las que participaron combatientes extranjeros. Sin embargo, se sabe poco sobre por qué algunos combatientes extranjeros siguen luchando en otras guerras o construyendo redes con terroristas responsables de ataques recientes en Europa. El proyecto MPP, financiado con fondos europeos, se centrará en Bosnia y Herzegovina y Kosovo para explicar las rutas de posguerra de los combatientes extranjeros. Arrojará luz sobre la forma en que los combatientes extranjeros siguieron distintas rutas en dos contextos posconflicto similares (el de Bosnia y Herzegovina y el de Kosovo).

Objetivo

Foreign fighters pose a serious threat to Europe. Western intelligence agencies believe that approximately 400 foreign fighters have returned to the EU from Syria and Iraq, and that at least 250 radicalized individuals have been smuggled to Europe from 2014 until 2016. The major hotbeds of foreign fighters smuggling and recruitment are located in Europe itself, in Bosnia and Kosovo, both of which underwent civil wars that featured foreign fighters. We know little about how foreign fighters behave in the aftermath of such civil wars: why some continue fighting in other wars while others go back to civilian life. This is an unfortunate shortcoming because numerous studies have shown that some foreign fighters have demobilized in the aftermath of wars in Afghanistan and Bosnia, while others left for Chechnya, Iraq and Syria to continue jihad. Those who continued fighting built networks with terrorists who are responsible for recent attacks in Europe. It is, therefore, imperative to understand these dynamics in order to make sound decisions that can prevent terrorism in Europe. This project will remedy this shortcoming by pursuing three goals. First, the project will adopt a fresh theoretical framework for the study of foreign fighters. Drawing on organizational theory, career transition and political violence literature, the project aims to explain post-war pathways of foreign fighters as a function of their role in previous war(s). Such an approach goes beyond standard focus on motivations and will help elicit why foreign fighters demobilize or turn violent in a long-term perspective. Second, the project will obtain new empirical insights into how foreign fighters pursued different paths in two similar, post-conflict contexts (Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo). The third objective of the project is to develop a set of policy recommendations that will assist future policy makers in dealing with returning foreign fighters.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

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Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

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Convocatoria de propuestas

(se abrirá en una nueva ventana) H2020-MSCA-IF-2017

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Coordinador

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 165 598,80
Coste total
€ 165 598,80