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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), Adolescent Misconduct, and Violent Extremism: A Comparison of Former Left-Wing and Right-Wing Extremists

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2022
The current paper compares the prevalence and nature of childhood adversity among twenty former left-wing and right-wing extremists. Findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) questionnaire suggest that exposure to childhood adversity was ...
Michael K. Logan   +2 more
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Mechanisms of 3N Model on Radicalization: Testing the Mediation by Group Identity and Ideology of the Relationship between Need for Significance and Violent Extremism

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2022
This paper seeks to examine the mechanisms of the 3 N model (need, narrative, and network) by testing a serial mediation model of group identity and ideology.
M. N. Milla   +3 more
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Violent extremism in the U.S.: Causes and consequences for youth, families, schools, and communities.

Journal of School Psychology
Violent extremism in the United States has surged over the past 25 years, with attacks on and threats to major governmental and other institutions, infrastructure (e.g., electric grid), and specific segments of the population, including immigrant and ...
M. Mayer   +3 more
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Understanding the rise in violent extremism in Pakistan through the lens of securitization theory

Asian Journal of Political Science
Over the last three decades, the phenomenon of violent extremism, primarily religious and ethno-nationalist extremism, has emerged as one of the biggest security challenges for Pakistan.
Syed Muhammad Saad Zaidi   +2 more
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Insurgency and Violent Extremism in Pakistan

Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2017
AbstractPakistan has an uneven history of dealing with insurgencies and extremism. This article identifies the various campaigns and policies employed to defeat militants and deal with violent extremism. It describes the major anti-state groups and how Pakistan’s military and civilian leaders, relying on the related strategies of selectivity ...
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Fighting Violent Extremism With Narrative Intervention: Evidence From a Field Experiment in West Africa

Psychology Science, 2022
Violent extremism is one of the major challenges of our time. A cluster-randomized controlled trial with two arms (treatment vs. control) conducted in 132 villages in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso (N = 2,904 participants) examined whether a narrative ...
R. Bilali
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Erasing historical violence from the study of violent extremism: Memorialization of white supremacy at Stone Mountain, United States

Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2022
There has been a rise in far-right extremism (FRE) globally, with a related rise in white nationalist and white supremacist violence. In all this, places connected to white supremacist violence remain less well-studied.
Priya Dixit, Kathryn Miller
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Profiles in Violent Extremism

2019
Abstract This chapter describes 10 instances of radicalization in which individuals committed or attempted to commit politically motivated acts of extreme violence against others. What strikes one about these depictions is that the perpetrators’ backgrounds and circumstances couldn’t be more different: They varied vastly in age, gender ...
Arie W. Kruglanski   +2 more
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Misogyny and violent extremism: implications for preventing violent extremism

2019
The research reported here examines why and how radicalisation to violence occurs from a gender perspective. In particular, this policy brief analyses the underexplored relationship between attitudes and practices indicating misogyny (defined as both fear and hatred of women and/or the feminine) and support for violent extremism.
Johnston, Melissa, True, Jacqui
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Conspiracy theories and violent extremism

Historical records and recent events suggest that conspiracy theories and violent extremism are closely associated. However, empirical research examining this link has only recently gained momentum. The present chapter provides an overview of this fast-growing research field.
Kinga Bierwiaczonek   +3 more
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