Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256369 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 46/2015
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
With a contingent of around 1,500 fighters, Morocco is considered one of the main exporters of foreign fighters to Syria. Until 2014, Moroccan authorities, who were content to see their own jihadis leave and add to the pressure on Bashar al-Assad, mostly turned a blind eye to networks of recruitment. Since the dramatic rise of the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, concern over local repercussions and the return of war-hardened radicals has prompted Rabat to adopt a hardline, security-oriented approach instead. Repression, however, is unlikely to uproot these networks. Instead, a comprehensive strategy for de-radicalization should aim to rehabilitate and reintegrate returning fighters, and use their example to dissuade others from violent militancy. (SWP Comments)
Document Type: 
Research Report

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