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The Epistemology of Terrorism and Radicalisation [PDF]
AbstractThis paper outlines and criticises two models of terrorism, the Rational Agent Model (RAM) and the Radicalisation Model (RAD). A different and more plausible conception of the turn to violence is proposed. The proposed account is Moderate Epistemic Particularism (MEP), an approach partly inspired by Karl Jaspers’ distinction between explanation
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Measuring the Radicalisation Risk in Social Networks
Social networks (SNs) have become a powerful tool for the jihadism as they serve as recruitment assets, live forums, psychological warfare, as well as sharing platforms.
Raul Lara-Cabrera +5 more
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Not “Cut Out” For the Field: An Analysis of Women Navigating Gendered Boundaries in STEM Education
ABSTRACT Gender inequities in access and promotions in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education and careers pose challenges for women to persist and excel in the field. However, limited scholarship examines how women's STEM pathways are shaped by informal and formal STEM education in the K–12 period.
Zora Haque +3 more
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Based upon a study of the trial of Tarek Mehanna, a young American of Egyptian descent, who was convicted of terrorist conspiracy in April 2012 and sentenced to seventeen years and a half in prison, this article examines the role of experts and social ...
Nadia Marzouki
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Abstract In this essay I contend that, whatever one might say about F.W.J. Schelling's historical and conceptual influence on Paul Tillich's doctrines, the overall style of Tillich's project can helpfully be dubbed Schellingian to the extent it mixes together discourses, genres, and vocabularies into an ever‐expanding whole. To the extent that anything
Daniel Whistler
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Radicalising citizenship education
Democracy faces two key threats today. The first is evident in the growth of authoritarian, right-wing, populism which is evident in a number of European countries and beyond. The second has been the un- dermining of democratic life by neoliberalism. Liberal democracy has aided the latter by the separation of economics from politics and the focus on ...
Crowther, Jim, Moir, Stuart
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Belief in a Norm‐Consistent Climate Policy Conspiracy Theory and Non‐Normative Collective Action
ABSTRACT Believing in conspiracy theories is connected to support for non‐normative collective action. One explanation might be that this is due to both being non‐normative. Alternatively, it might be the case that non‐normative action appears justified based on what conspiracy theories alleging harm to a personally relevant group due to powerholders ...
Lotte Pummerer +3 more
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Radicalisation and travelling to Syria among delinquent youths: A case study from the Netherlands
Although many studies have investigated the backgrounds of people who went to Syria to join jihadist groups, much remains unclear about the underlying radicalisation processes. Many authors have noted that radicalisation and terrorism are associated with
Rudie J.M. Neve +3 more
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‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’
Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
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Controversies of Conversions: The Potential Terrorist Threat of European Converts to Islam
This article summarising some findings from a doctoral dissertation discusses European converts to Islam. It explores the conditions under which conversion leads to radicalisation and terrorist violence; it analyses recrudescent concomitances of causal ...
Monika G. Bartoszewicz
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