UNIVERSITIES AND ‘RADICALISATION’ IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine a little about the business of what we call – rather unsatisfactorily – radicalisation, on university campuses. I shall focus on mainly about the Middle East and North Africa, though I hope my remarks have wider relevance. I want to reflect a little on what it is about university education that encourages and discourages radicalisation. It is true that the mere fact of bringing young people together in large numbers, at a moment in their lives when they are idealistic and impressionable, has its own dangers, but if this can sometimes lead to extremist influence and even recruitment, it is in large part a matter of university discipline. There are more important themes, in my view, in the actual business of university teaching – and it is this that I would like to see more widely understood. In this study, I will try to explain that university youth struggling with radicalisation in some perspectives. To do so, the study consists of observations about radicalism in universities and universities youth

Keywords

• Radicalisation, Violent Extremists, Engineering and Radicalisation, Middle East, North Africa

Ortadoğu ve Kuzey Afrika’da Üniversiteler ve Radikalleşme

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı üniversite kampüslerinde radikalleşme olarak adlandırılan konu hakkında inceleme yapmaktır. Yapılan açıklamaların daha geniş alanda alakalı olmasını umut etmekle beraber, genel olarak Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika’ ya odaklanılacaktır. Radikalleşmeye teşvik eden ve tam tersi etki yaratan üniversite eğitimi hakkında bilgi vermek istemekteyim. Üniversite çağındaki genç insanlar hassas ve kolay etkilenebilir zamanda olduklarından onları üniversite ortamı olan kalabalıkla bir araya getirdiğimizde, bu onların kendi tehlikeleri olmaktadır. Ancak, bu durum bazen radikalleşmeden etkilenme ve aşırıcılığa katılma olsa da, bu daha çok üniversite disiplinin bir sorunudur. Benim anlaşılmasını istediğim üniversite öğreniminin daha fazla önemli konuları olduğudur. Bu çalışmada üniversite gençliğinin radikalizm ile mücadelesini bazı bakış açılarından açıklamaya çalışacağım. Bunu gerçekleştirmek içinde, üniversitedeki ve üniversite gençliğindeki radikalizmle ilgili bazı gözlemleri çalışmada açıklayacağım

Keywords

• Radikalleşme, Aşırıcılık Yanlıları, Mühendislik ve Radikalleşme, Ortadoğu, Kuzey Afrika

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