What Is the Driving Force behind Georgians’ Decision to Join the Islamic State: A Study of Life Stories of Georgian Jihadis through Media Articles
(2017) MOSM03 20171Centre for Middle Eastern Studies
- Abstract
- The following thesis is concerned with understanding the motivational factors behind Georgian jihadis’ decision to join the Islamic State. It uses the theory of the Islamisation of radicalism to explain the process of radicalisation in Georgia.
Resting on a mixed methods research design, the thesis aims to study the individual stories of Georgians fighting for the Islamic State in order to understand the motivation in their personal stories which pushed them to go to war. For this aim, the study creates a database of twenty-six dead Georgian fighters of ISIS after coding the data related to their personal stories collected from online media articles.
In addition to investigating the motivation of Georgian jihadis, the thesis tries to... (More) - The following thesis is concerned with understanding the motivational factors behind Georgian jihadis’ decision to join the Islamic State. It uses the theory of the Islamisation of radicalism to explain the process of radicalisation in Georgia.
Resting on a mixed methods research design, the thesis aims to study the individual stories of Georgians fighting for the Islamic State in order to understand the motivation in their personal stories which pushed them to go to war. For this aim, the study creates a database of twenty-six dead Georgian fighters of ISIS after coding the data related to their personal stories collected from online media articles.
In addition to investigating the motivation of Georgian jihadis, the thesis tries to test Roy’s theory of the Islamisation of radicalism and makes a comparison between the general characteristics of the Western European and Georgian fighters of the Islamic State. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/8921679
- author
- Modebadze, Giorgi LU
- supervisor
-
- Markus Holdo LU
- organization
- course
- MOSM03 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Jihad, Islamic fundamentalism, Kaukasien, Georgien
- language
- English
- id
- 8921679
- date added to LUP
- 2018-01-24 16:17:46
- date last changed
- 2018-01-24 16:23:27
@misc{8921679,
abstract = {{The following thesis is concerned with understanding the motivational factors behind Georgian jihadis’ decision to join the Islamic State. It uses the theory of the Islamisation of radicalism to explain the process of radicalisation in Georgia.
Resting on a mixed methods research design, the thesis aims to study the individual stories of Georgians fighting for the Islamic State in order to understand the motivation in their personal stories which pushed them to go to war. For this aim, the study creates a database of twenty-six dead Georgian fighters of ISIS after coding the data related to their personal stories collected from online media articles.
In addition to investigating the motivation of Georgian jihadis, the thesis tries to test Roy’s theory of the Islamisation of radicalism and makes a comparison between the general characteristics of the Western European and Georgian fighters of the Islamic State.}},
author = {{Modebadze, Giorgi}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{What Is the Driving Force behind Georgians’ Decision to Join the Islamic State: A Study of Life Stories of Georgian Jihadis through Media Articles}},
year = {{2017}},
}