One of the frequently mentioned root causes of radicalisation are poverty and inequality. However, empirical findings for such claims are inconclusive and we are still far from valid and reliable answers on questions such as Is inequality associated with radicalization? If so, how (positively or negatively), when, where and how?

To find more reliable answers to these questions, researchers in the DARE project within Work Package 4 are conducting a systematic review of quantitative research (Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar) and a meta-ethnographic synthesis of qualitative research (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Anadolu University) on the relationship between inequality and radicalization. The Literature search is focused on original empirical studies published as journal articles, books/book chapters or reports between 2001 and 2017 in the English language.

The search encompassed electronic databases search, hand searching of journals not indexed in databases and grey literature search. For electronic databases search combinations of key words relevant for concept of inequality and radicalisations were used.

Besides examining the relationship between inequality and radicalisation on individual and social level, SR of quantitative studies will also describe methodological aspects of the existing studies and detect evidence gaps as well as methodological best practice and action points for other WP’s within the DARE project but also future studies and policies in general.

Results of the complete SR of quantitative studies will be presented in a report that will be published on this site later this year.

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