{"id":3625,"date":"2024-07-02T11:38:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T09:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:11:22","slug":"does-poverty-cause-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/does-poverty-cause-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Does poverty cause terrorism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Lulamile Mtebeni, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br \/><strong>Supervisor:\u00a0<\/strong>Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Lulamile Mtebeni - Does poverty cause terrorism?\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5UQy_pU5sMI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>This research analyses the assumption that the root cause of terrorism is poverty and other forms of socioeconomic deprivation. By analyzing all terrorist incidents between 1997 to 2020, this research sought to contribute further to a field of study that has already enjoyed its fair share of consideration from policymakers, scholars, and the general public. Through a sequence of multiple regressions, the research ultimately found that the relationship between the said variable is statistically insignificant \u2013 thereby meaning that any sort of relationship between the said variables is indirect.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1124\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Lulamile-Mtebeni.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Lulamile-Mtebeni.png 1124w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Lulamile-Mtebeni-600x425.png 600w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Lulamile-Mtebeni-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Lulamile-Mtebeni-1024x725.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Lulamile-Mtebeni-768x544.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1124px) 100vw, 1124px\" \/><\/figure><p><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher:\u00a0\u00a0Lulamile Mtebeni, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor:\u00a0Prof. Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg This research analyses the assumption that the root cause of terrorism is poverty and other forms of socioeconomic deprivation. By analyzing all terrorist incidents between 1997 to 2020, this research sought to contribute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions\/4368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}