While President Trump is fighting Islamist terrorism Julie Bishop has just announced a new gift of free money to - you guessed it - potential terrorists.

First up this definition and 'evidence' "around" the drivers of wank wank wank.  It is dead set spew worthy.

Honest to God Julie you are pathetic.  

How could you provide, on the taxpayer's funds, a definition of terrorism that doesn't use the words Koran, Muhammad, Muslim, Islam or Jihad?  Will we send our army out to fight a confluence of individual, group and environmental factors through a context-based, multi-level approach?

Bishop put her name to this:

Evidence around the drivers of violent extremism

There is broad academic consensus that no single factor drives violent extremism¹⁰ and no single profile can reliably be used to identify at risk individuals¹¹.  Rather, violent extremists emerge from a confluence of individual, group and environmental factors.  The significance of factors varies according to the individuals and contexts concerned.  

To accommodate this complexity, there is an emerging consensus among academics and bilateral donors that a context-based, multi-level approach is required to identify the factors contributing to violent extremism, which can form the basis for targeted activities.  In assessing the drivers of violent extremism in a given context, models typically account for:

• macro-level drivers: broad socio-economic or political trends ('push' factors)

A 2015 study by the Institute for Economics and Peace found twenty-eight factors which demonstrated a statistically significant correlation with terrorism, though only nine of them were broadly present across OECD and non-OECD contexts: high levels of political terror, lower respect for human rights, the existence of polices targeting religious freedoms, group grievances, instability and lower respect for international law¹².  Context matters.  

• meso-level drivers: identity group influences ('pull' or enabling factors¹³)

There is robust evidence that radicalisation is a social process and that identity is a key factor in individuals joining violent movements¹⁴.  Violent extremist groups may use collective grievances of particular minority groups to enable narratives of victimisation.  They also exploit religious beliefs, ethnic differences and ideologies¹⁵.  

• micro-leveldrivers: individual factors ('pull' factors)¹⁶

The psychological make-up of an individual influences their vulnerability to radicalisation.¹⁷  Individual vulnerabilities may include cognitive constraints; a disposition to violence, social isolation, or susceptibility to messaging narratives through social media or person-to-person channels¹⁸.  Examining radicalisation at the micro-level helps us identify that, even within violent extremist groups, there is a wide variation of individual motivations for joining.  

Evidence suggests the reasons individuals are radicalised are complex and varied.  Socio-economic or macro-level factors can push people towards extremist ideas.  But not all people faced with the same set of circumstances will become radicalised.  A search for personal and group identity can radicalise an individual, but not all those who have become radicalised will join a terrorist organisation or engage in acts of violence¹⁹.

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Here's the beautiful celebrity emoji queen's press release.