Download or read book Victims, Perpetrators, Assets written by Peter R. Neumann and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all defectors have abandoned the ideas that caused them to join. What nearly all of them do share, however, is a sense of outrage about ISIS' extreme brutality, violence and abuse against the very people it claims to defend: the Sunni Muslims of Syria and Iraq, as well as corruption within its ranks. Another overarching reason for their defections seems to be how different life under ISIS actually was, when compared to what they had been lead to believe it would be. The ICSR hopes that these stories can be used to keep young men and women from becoming radicalized and travelling to join ISIS. The report recommends that governments begin to recognize the value of these stories, and says they should provide the defectors with ways to speak out, help them in resettlement, and remove legal blocks that may dissuade them from defecting and returning home.