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  1. “We need to challenge extremist ideas on the Internet, where extremists are incredibly effective and we are not. But firefighting is not enough. If we want to stop this from happening again and again, we need to work on creating more inclusive societies and more inclusive identities. It is the toughest part of prevention; it is the most costly and the most long-term. But we must do it, because only if more people feel that they belong - that they truly belong - to their European home countries, however they look and whatever religion they practice, only then will we succeed in reducing the pool ofpeople from which violent extremists recruit.”

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  2. “How do we stop it? There are lots of things we need to do. There is a lot of firefighting - stopping people from travelling, arresting them, and sharing information. Some of these measures are outlined in resolution 2178 (2014), which I had the honour to work on with Ambassador Power and her team. We need to empower young people to make their own choices as full members of their societies, but we also need to empower parents, especially mothers. They are our strongest allies, and they are often the last ones who still have a degree ofinfluence over their kids. We have often seen how parents have managed to stop their kids from going abroad. We need to create deradicalization programmes that deliver tailored interventions, either when people are on the brink of joining extremist groups, before they travel to Syria, or when they come back.”

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  3. “It opens your mind to an ideology that says, "The West is at war with you; Europe is at war with you; your country is at war with you; you cannot live among these people; you cannot be European and Muslim at the same time." Because that is exactly what the recruiters are saying; that is what Daesh videos on the Internet are saying. And it resonates with some. It resonates not because Daesh has magical powers of persuasion or because the videos are produced so well. It resonates because it makes sense of people's state of mind. It gives them the answer they were looking for. It turns a grievance into a cause - one that gives meaning and significance. It is weirdly empowering, as hard as that may be for a lot of us her today to understand. A sense of exclusion is not what causes it, but it is the precondition for everything that follows.”

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  4. “Just because you have been discriminated against, just because you lack economic opportunity, or just because people insult your religion does not automatically, by osmosis, make you go to Syria and chop people's heads off. Ifit were that simple, we would have not 4,000 Europeans down there, but 4 million And I thank God we do not. There are a lot of other factors involved in youth radicalization. An ideology needs to come in, make sense of the grievance and channel it into a particular direction. Groups, social dynamics and charismatic leaders play an important role too. But what I am trying to say is that exclusion - that sense of not feeling you belong or part of your own society - opens your mind.”

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  5. “They have often felt that, because of who they are, how they look and where their parents or grandparents came from, they still were not part of us, they were not European, they did not belong, and they would never succeed in Europe however hard they tried. And if you do not feel you belong; if you do not feel that you are part of your society, it becomes easier to leave and it becomes easier to hate, and it becomes easier to go against the very society whose passport you hold and whose language you speak. Let me make this very clear. Feeling excluded on its own does not explain why you become a foreign terrorist fighter, and it certainly does not justify it. Nothing justifies terrorism.”

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  6. “So when it comes to their basic characteristics and, if you will, socioeconomic profiles, we are dealing with an incredibly diverse group of people - more diverse than any extremist population that I have seen. It is so diverse that it now includes, for the first time in this particular group, large numbers of women: 10, 15 and, in some countries, 20 per cent females. So what do they have in common? There is an uncomfortable truth here for my European compatriots. However different the foreign fighters my colleagues and I have found and spoken to may be; however different their profiles and characteristics, what many, if not most of them, have in common is that they do not feel that they have a stake in their societies.”

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  7. “We have spoken to nearly 100 of them - some over the course of several months - and we have met face to face with many facilitators, transporters, sheikhs and, of course, the fighters themselves on the ground in the border towns from where they enter Syria. We know these people. We know their stories, and we know that there is not just one story. There are many stories. Some of them are pious, but others not. Many have troubled histories, but some would have had decent prospects had they stayed in their European home countries. Some were driven by the humanitarian suffering ofthe Syrian people; others were seeking thrill and adventure. And, of course, many were extremists to begin with; they had been extremists long before the conflict in Syria started.”

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  8. “The people I want to talk about are foreign terrorist fighters from my continent, the continent of Europe. They are foreign fighters who have gone to Syria and Iraq to join the organization that calls itself Daesh. They are mostly young people from cities like Berlin, Paris, Stockholm and London - citizens of our countries, up to 4,000 of them who have joined a totalitarian organization that chops off people's heads and burns them alive. My colleagues and I at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence in London have been interested in these people for over two years. We know many of them. We have found 700 of them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr - social media platforms where they are posting news and updates, comments and pictures.”

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  9. “If you make a list of every grievance expressed in every conflict in which youth radicalization has occurred, you end up with a very long list indeed. You will end up with a list that includes, in essence, every problem in the world. At that point it becomes difficult, because - as I know and as the members of the Security Council know better than everyone else - it is neither possible nor realistic to expect politicians, policymakers, diplomats or even the United Nations to solve every problem in the world. Let me say it one more time: youth radicalization as such does not have one specific cause everywhere, but conflicts do. Instead oftalking about the causes of radicalization in general, what I would like to talk about one specific conflict, and one specific population within that conflict.”

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  10. “The terrorists who attacked London were not from the Middle East, they were not from a zone of conflict, they were from England. They had bee been born in England, they grew up and went to school there, they had British passports and they spoke English with a better accent than I do, even when I try. What made them do it? Let me say straightaway - and I am now speaking as an academic - that there is not a single reason why young people radicalize. There is not a single root cause. Radicalization is a process. It is the process whereby people, often mostly young people, turn to extremism - sometimes Violent extremism. It is a process that can occur in any society, and as such it does not have a specific cause. It is conflicts that have causes.”

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  11. “I was born in Germany, and I have always struggled to understand how people from my own country, with the history we have and the atrocities and wars that we have caused, how young people from my country - a very small number, but still, some ofmy compatriots - could still be attracted to a neo-Nazi ideology. When I was a student, I spent a year studying in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was 1997-1998, the last year of the conflict. The conflict was winding down and peace was coming. Yet the scars of conflict were everywhere, and I was looking for the cause. When 9ll happened, in this city, it seemed far away to me. But, four years later, in 2005, terrorists struck in London, where I was by then living and working as an academic.”

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  12. “Mr. Neumann: My name is Peter Neumann. I am a professor of security studies Kings College, London, and I am also Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization. I appreciate this opportunity to talk about the causes of youth radicalization, and I commend the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for holding today's debate. I have dedicated the past 17 years of my life to studying and understanding the process and the causes of radicalization. It is What I have been doing day in day out. It is what has kept me awake many nights.”

    2015-04-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7432 (2015) · source