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have addressed this issue, saying that the face-to-face recruitment affects the mental condition of the recruit and makes him believe that the recruiter standing in front of him is talking about justice and peace. They also claim that the majority of the recruits are being affected by the idea of“ living in a Caliphate” and how prestigious and prosperous the life in that case would be 11. Kala Kristina Hartman Anaya in her“ Persuasion Strategies in Terrorist Recruitment: The Case of ISIS” argues that the IS recruiters use the“ shaming tactics” to affect the minds of future recruits 12. This“ shaming tactic” plays on the ideas that“ their brother Muslims are fighting for justice, it is everyone’ s duty to help them in their fight and they serve their ideas as“ enlightenment, inner peace and spiritual awareness” 13.
A few authors have also conducted research on the issue of ISIS recruitment specifically from Georgia. They all have one strong similarity: all of the authors think of the region of Pankisi Gorge as of the biggest threat in the region, since exactly its locals are more likely to leave for ISIS in large numbers. Authors that cover the issue of foreign fighters’ outflow from Georgia claim that the outflow of young people from Georgia is easier than from any other remote countries, due to the fact that Turkey( through where they actually travel to Syria or Iraq) is weakly controlled in that sense 14. Some scholars also underline the importance of Russian involvement in regards to this issue, saying that nowadays, the Russian presence has risen so much that“ Russian has become the third language of Daesh” 15. These authors emphasize the region of Adjara as well,
11 Final Report of the Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter
Travel.( 2015). Homeland Security Committee, https:// homeland. house. gov / taskforce-on-terrorist-and-foreign-fighter-travel /
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Hartman Anaya K., Persuasion Strategies in Terrorist Recruitment: The Case of ISIS, Leiden University, 2015, https:// openaccess. leidenuniv. nl / bitstream / handle / 1887 / 35008 / Masters % 20Thesis % 20PDF. pdf? sequence = 1
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Ibid 14 Goguadze G. and Kapanadze S., op. cit.
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Lang H. and Al Wari M., The Flow of Foreign Fighters to the Islamic State Assessing the Challenge and the Response, Centre for American Progress, March 2016, https:// cdn. americanprogress. org / wpcontent / uploads / 2016 / 03 / 17132821 / ForeignFighters-report. pdf
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