The internal brakes on violent escalation: a typology
Journal abstract Most groups do less violence than they are capable of. Yet while there is now an extensive literature on the escalation of or radicalisation towards violence, particularly by[…]
Tagged: extremism
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Extremism, Ancient and Modern: Insurgency, Terror and Empire in the Middle East
Publisher’s description Near Eastern archaeology is generally represented as a succession of empires with little attention paid to the individuals, labelled as terrorists at the time, that brought them down.[…]
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The Genealogy of Terror: How to distinguish between Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism
Publisher’s description In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the events of 9/11, 7/7, the War on Terror and the Caliphate and atrocities of the so-called Islamic State[…]
Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin’s Russia: Legacies, Forms and Threats
Publisher’s description Militancy continues to be characteristic of many supporters of the Russian far right, encompassing a belligerent rhetoric, a strong perception of participants as political warriors and often the[…]
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Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right: Mechanisms of Transmission and the Role of Educational Interventions
Publisher’s description Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right takes up an important and often-overlooked across scholarship on the radical right, gender, and education. These subfields have mostly operated independent[…]
Why People Radicalize: How Unfairness Judgments are Used to Fuel Radical Beliefs, Extremist Behaviors, and Terrorism
Publisher’s description Why People Radicalize, Kees van den Bos argues that if we want to truly understand radicalization and prevent, attenuate, and fight violent extremism and terrorism, we must pay[…]
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Violent extremism: A comparison of approaches to assessing and managing risk
Journal abstract Purpose The task of assessing and managing risk of violence has evolved considerably in the last 25 years, and the field of violent extremism has the potential to[…]
Examining the utility of social control and social learning in the radicalization of violent and non-violent extremists
Journal abstract Research on radicalization to accept extremist ideologies has expanded dramatically over the last decade, particularly attempts to theorize pathways to violence. These models are complex, and contain aspects[…]
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Theology, heroism, justice, and fear: an analysis of ISIS propaganda magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah
Journal abstract This paper analyses a large content sample of Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) English-language magazines. Dabiq (15 issues, 2014–2016) and Rumiyah (13 issues, 2016–2017) represent the[…]
Violent extremism: how communities can help counter it
Local communities are being called upon to help prevent radicalisation. In a bid to counter violent extremism, UK home secretary Sajid Javid recently launched the government’s Strategy for Countering Terrorism.[…]
A micro-sociological analysis of homegrown violent extremist attacks in the UK in 201717 April, 2019
Tunisian terrorist fighters: a grassroots perspective15 April, 2019- Ostracism promotes a terroristic mindset12 April, 2019
- The radicalization of the Kanes: family as a primary group influence?10 April, 2019