Wesam Charkawi’s Master’s thesis on radicalisation (WSU)
The Western Sydney University research portal lists a Master's thesis by Wesam Charkawi, "Attitudes towards radicalising to violent extremism among Australian Muslims: role of structures, social dynamics and social identity". Its date of submission is 2017 and its repository handle is http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:45916. The full PDF is listed on the record but was blocked to automated download, so what follows comes from the official abstract.
The abstract says the study "seeks to determine the impact of structures on social identity, as well as the social dynamic, and whether these enhance susceptibility to radicalising towards violence. Potential structures include: damaging political discourse, negative media portrayal, Islamophobia, and racism." It reports that "A survey consisting of 200 participants revealed that, i) alienation increases susceptibility to radicalising to violent extremism, ii) structures give rise to a sense of alienation, iii) the greater the sense of belonging, the greater the rejection of violent dispositions towards the West and its allies".
The findings were later published with WSU academics Kevin Dunn and Ana-Maria Bliuc as "The influences of social identity and perceptions of injustice on support to violent extremism", Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 13(3), 177–196 (2021; publisher copyright 2020). That study surveyed 198 Australian Muslims. It reported that "the greater the sense of belonging and religiosity, the greater the rejection of violent dispositions against the West and its allies".
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