CORE LIBRARY REPORT
The third report was developed to tease out intergroup relations between groups with different interests and ideologies. It recognises that intergroup dynamics are significant in creating radicalisation spirals, where opposing groups both escalate tensions between each other – and learn from each other’s methodology. Groups justify their own violence through positioning the other as creating provocation, and vice versa; they also start to create a symbolic language in which the characteristics of the ‘Other’ are positioned as a cultural threat. This report looks at this phenomenon, arguing that relations within and between groups may be more significant vectors of radicalisation than ideology. The implications are that relations between groups need to be taken into consideration when designing interventions and in tracking radicalisation, particularly at local levels.