Group Compliance and Conformity - The Terrorist Recruitment Process

Opinion Analysis by Tala Otaibi, Contributor

Why is it relatively quite so easy to bring in people to operate within hostile terrorist organizations given their frightening and inhumane nature? Terrorism is one of the most frightening phenomena to exist in our modern world today. With globalization at a constant rise and the world growing more interconnected, terrorism has grown with it as a result. It has become much easier to cross borders and instill fear in people all over the globe. Even more so, it has become much easier to recruit people from all over the globe, too. To try to answer this question, this article tackles the recruitment process through a social psychological analysis.