Journal abstract This article explores the challenges local youth workers face at the intersection of providing social care and detecting violent extremism. Extremism and other radical ideologies are often assumed[…]
Journal abstract Prior research on extremism has identified a host of psychological, emotional, material, and group-based mechanisms that are potentially important drivers of individual radicalization. However, taken on their own,[…]
Journal abstract Through its prolific propaganda, the self-declared Islamic State (IS) seeks to attract new recruits, motivate existing members, and assert the group’s legitimacy. This study addresses the question of[…]
Journal abstract That drone warfare may cause “blowback” is a well-established argument – commonly used to contest drones’ effectiveness. One of the unintended consequences of drones includes the opportunity it[…]
Journal abstract Empirical studies analyzing the push factors of expat jihadism are scarce and typically give contradictory results. We hypothesize that youth unemployment, as opposed to overall unemployment, is a[…]
Journal abstract A central issue with many interpretations of radicalization remains their tendency to overemphasize the role of extremist beliefs in motivating involvement in terrorism. After elaborating on this critique,[…]
Journal abstract This Research Note starts by evaluating Lofland and Stark’s conversion model. By comparing it with several radicalisation models, it was found that conversion and radicalisation processes have much[…]
Journal abstract Biographical data of terrorists and overlapping theories indicate that ostracism has the power to promote a terroristic mindset. This effect, however, has not been investigated empirically so far.[…]
Journal abstract This paper analyses the phenomenon of a group of Portuguese citizens and Portuguese-descendants who went to fight alongside the Islamic State (IS) organisation and other extremist groups in[…]
Journal abstract Violent radicalization is increasingly conceptualized as a public health issue, associated with psychological distress, a sharp increase in discrimination and profiling, and an increase in hate crime and[…]
Disengagement from Political Violence and Deradicalization: A Narrative-Dialogical Perspective20 April, 2018
Subjectivity in detection of radicalisation and violent extremism: a youth worker’s perspective19 April, 2018Peacebuilding Beyond Terrorism? Revisiting the Narratives of the Basque Conflict18 April, 2018
Radicalization to Violence: A Pathway Approach to Studying Extremism17 April, 2018