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scholarly database chosen because it provides comprehensive multidisciplinary content and applies a strong international perspective;

2) Informit was included due to its strong focus on research from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific;

3) JSTOR was chosen based on its facilitation of interdisciplinary and historical research; and

4) Project MUSE was incorporated due to its strong presence in both humanities and social sciences

This carefully selected combination of academic databases enabled the research team to conduct a systematic review of high-quality (peer-reviewed) research literature. Against this backdrop, and after intensive testing of different search strategies, Google Scholar was not included as a database in the systematic literature review process due to its inherent technical weakness. During the exploratory phase, searches in Google Scholar have tended to generate an extremely large number of – often irrelevant – results, and those hits that were relevant have already been captured by the searches in the four academic databases. Keeping these shortcomings in mind, the research team did use Google Scholar, outside the framework of the systematic literature review, as a tool to identify additional key books and book chapters.

Once the aforementioned four academic databases were chosen, the research team developed a list of search terms that related to the research questions and conducted exploratory searches based on different combinations of terms. During this exploratory phase, the researchers documented problems and concerns so as to continually reflect on and refine the search process in order to understand how to combine terms most effectively in order to achieve the most comprehensive and relevant results. It was during this exploratory stage

that it became apparent that the term ‘exclusivism’ was ineffective in generating useful search results. In response to this, the research team developed key words aimed at capturing the essence of ‘exclusivism’ as this related to the research questions and incorporated these into the search terms.

During this exploratory phase, the research team also refined how to input key search terms into different databases in order to optimise the function of each database’s particular search engine. Eventually the research team developed a framework that included conducting four searches, each based on sets of words incorporated into the search engines in highly specific ways. To ensure the transparency and repeatability of the searches the research team developed a booklet to provide a framework for all researchers to follow when conducting the searches. This booklet provides a step-by-step guide of how to work within each database and how to input specific search terms. The step-by-step guide is provided in Appendix B. The search strategy and combination of search terms reflect the thematic focus of the two key research questions. Four comprehensive and systematic searches were carried out, each one conducted separately in all four academic databases:

Search 1 identifies research literature relevant to research question 1, exploring factors that influence, lead to, or protect against socially harmful forms of racial, ethnic or religious exclusivism. This was undertaking in two steps: first, by capturing the socially harmful dimensions of racial, ethnic or religious exclusivism (search 1A using search terms like terrorism, violent extremism, radicalisation, right-wing extremism, combined with racial, ethnic, or religious) ; and second by capturing the factors that lead to, influence, or protect against racial ethnic and religious exclusivism (search 1B using search terms like risk factors, prevention, or vulnerability).

1 _{Initial search attempts using the search term ‘racism’ in relation to factors that may lead to, prevent against, racism did not yield good,}

i.e sufficiently specific, results, assumedly due to, among other factors, the very broad and multi-faceted research in the realm of racism. As a consequence the inclusion of the term ‘racism’ in some of the searches led to an unmanageable number of hits, many of them irrelevant to the specific research question of this stocktake research.

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Search 2 addresses research question 2, focussing on the effects and impact of social cohesion on exclusivism. This search combines manifestations of socially harmful forms of exclusivism

(using search terms such as terrorism, violent extremism, radicalisation, right-wing extremism, racism, intolerance) with terms that capture key dimensions of social cohesion (using words like social cohesion, social capital, belonging, equal opportunities, participation, recognition, multiculturalism, social bonds).

Search 3 also refers to research question 2, but, instead of social cohesion, it explores the literature on the effects and impact of (community) resilience on exclusivism; terms used to identity research on community resilience were, in addition to community resilience itself, coping, adversity, thriving, and adaptation.

These four searches (1A, 1B, 2, and 3) were conducted (between 5 and 10 November 2015) in accordance with the framework outlines in the booklet (see appendix B). These searches identified altogether 10,484 journal articles. All these results (for each search and each database) were recorded (Table A) and downloaded into the library management software Endnote. When all search results were in the Endnote library a search was done to identify and discard duplicate findings (2,956), which led to a total of 7,528 articles.

TABLE A Stocktake Project Stats Search 1A

Database Number of hits Number saved to Endnote

Academic Search Premier 784 784

Informit 48 48

JSTOR* 1648 899

Project Muse 694 694

Total 3174 2425

Search 1B

Database Number of hits Number saved to Endnote

Academic Search Premier 1135 1135

Informit 136 136

JSTOR 683 683

Project Muse 328 328

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