From: A public health approach to understanding and preventing violent radicalization
Factor | Description |
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Risk factors | Young people facing transitions: education, place, family, religion and so on |
 | Cognitive and social openings to new influences |
 | Social isolation and exclusion |
 | Grievances about discrimination that may be personal, related to unfair treatment at work, access to health care or about other inequalities in society |
 | Unemployment |
 | Migrant status and experiences before and after immigration |
 | International conflict that is considered unjust against a group with which individual identifies on religious, national or cultural grounds |
 | Perceived threat to family and cultural group |
 | Marginalized and traditional cultural identities |
 | Discrimination thought to explain group inequalities in health and social status and access to wealth |
 | Not able to negotiate needs and protest through non-violent and democratic means |
 | Contact with influential or charismatic leaders who justify terrorism (for example, in prisons, or in schools or universities) |
Protective factors | Social support |
 | Social cohesion |
 | Social capital and trust in institutions |
 | Feeling of safety and security in neighborhood |
 | Integrated cultural identity |
 | Employment success |
 | Access to democratic means for negotiating needs and opinions |
 | Access to critical religious leadership that can moderate and inform on legitimate religious perspectives |