The reasons why any young person leaves their home, family and friends to go and fight in a foreign country will always be complex to unravel. It does seem incomprehensible that someone who has been raised and educated in the UK with no history of violence would be willing to get involved in acts of unspeakable brutality and yet we are told that hundreds have made that choice. There are clearly powerful global forces in play and we need the input from political theory, theology, history, social science and of course psychology to make some sense of it. Yet, as a...
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