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- in Ideologies · Research · Terms and Definitions · Think-tank
Incel Radical Milieu and External Locus of Control

Journal abstract In the last few years, incel violence has been the subject of many excellent journalistic accounts, but — with few notable exceptions, whose insights will be acknowledged and[…]

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- in Ideologies · Pathways to radicalisation · Research
On the Permissibility of Homicidal Violence: Perspectives from Former U.S. White Supremacists

Journal abstract Drawing upon in-depth life-history interviews with 91 North American-based former white supremacists, we examine how participants perceive homicidal violence as either an appropriate or inappropriate political strategy. Based[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Regions · Research · World
The politics-violence frontier

Journal abstract This article analyses how early twenty-first century political activists in Italy construct the frontier between politics and violence. It puts these constructions into the context of more conventionally[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Regions · Research · World
Religion and Violence in the Horn of Africa: Trajectories of Mimetic Rivalry and Escalation between ‘Political Islam’ and the State

Journal abstract Religiously inspired violence is a global phenomenon and connects to transnational narratives, necessitating comparative analysis of socio-historical context and patterns of ideological mobilization. Northeast Africa hosts several radical-extremist[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Regions · Research · World
Killing in Pairs: Radicalisation Patterns of Violent Dyads

Journal abstract In recent years there has been an upsurge in violent attacks conducted by pairs of individuals who have undergone a shared process of radicalisation. Violent dyads remain a[…]

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- in Regions · Research · World
Understanding Muslims’ Support for Suicide Bombing in West Africa: A Replication Study

Journal abstract Support for Islamist violence among Muslims—howsoever varied—is theoretically and practically important because scholars have demonstrated that popular support for terrorism may explain where terrorist events occur even though[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Regions · Research · UK
A micro-sociological analysis of homegrown violent extremist attacks in the UK in 2017

Journal abstract The academic literature on terrorism largely ignores micro-sociological explanations of violence. This is especially true in relation to the research concerning Homegrown Violent Extremists (HVE). This article provides[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Research
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[…]

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- in Discussions on Policy · Research
Too dangerous for fieldwork? The challenge of institutional risk-management in primary research on conflict, violence and ‘Terrorism’

Journal abstract Research on conflict and ‘terrorism’ is confronted by an expanding range of daunting ethical, methodological, and institutional challenges. One of these is the increasing involvement of university ethics[…]

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- in Radicalisation · Research
Reading Between the Lines: Prediction of Political Violence Using Newspaper Text

Journal abstract This article provides a new methodology to predict armed conflict by using newspaper text. Through machine learning, vast quantities of newspaper text are reduced to interpretable topics. These[…]

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