Journal abstract Two notable features of the current conflict in Syria and Iraq are the number of foreign fighters from western countries fighting for Sunni militant organisations, and the use[…]
Journal abstract A quantitative study of 130 individuals arrested in Spain between June 2013 and August 2016 for terrorist activities related to the Islamic State (IS) shows that the vast[…]
Journal abstract Jihadism in Norway has witnessed a huge shift from consisting primarily of foreign ethnically homogenous networks with a low capacity for mobilization, to the current situation where a[…]
Journal abstract The networks that were active in sending “volunteers” for the anti-US jihad in Iraq from 2003 to 2007 might have played a key role in organizing the major[…]
Journal abstract While several studies of radicalization processes and recruitment to jihadi organizations have been undertaken in European countries, very few are based on interviews with foreign fighters that have[…]
Journal abstract Groups such as al-Qaida (AQ) have pursued spectacular attacks to garner media attention and popularize their cause. What is often not noted, however, is that for those who[…]
Journal abstract U.S. policymakers consider countering and displacing extremist narratives to be a core strategy of countering violent extremism. The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS),[…]
Journal abstract This article aims to illustrate radicalization towards jihadist terrorism as a non-sequential process. It focuses on both continued as well as unsuccessful trajectories of involvement, by studying how[…]
Journal abstract The academic literature is divided with regard to whether terrorist recruits are dangerous masterminds, “malevolently creative,” and capable of perpetrating well-planned mass casualty attacks in the heart of[…]
Journal abstract Social media are useful facilitators when recruiting hidden populations for research. In our research on youth and radicalization, we were able to find and contact young people with[…]
A Guide to Interviewing Terrorists and Violent Extremists19 February, 2020
The Promotion of Secularization as a Counterterrorism Strategy to Religious Terrorism: A Case Study of Iraq17 February, 2020
Law, state and right-wing extremism in India14 February, 2020
Returning to the Fight: An Empirical Analysis of Terrorist Reengagement and Recidivism12 February, 2020