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What Does Sustained Desistance from Violent Extremism Entail: A Proposed Theory of Change and Policy Implications

open access: yesTerrorism and Political Violence, 2023
While much is known about factors associated with deradicalisation and disengagement from violent extremism and terrorism, the underlying mechanisms at play have been under theorised.
Adrian Cherney, D. Koehler
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Engaging English Speaking Facebook Users in an Anti-ISIS Awareness Campaign

open access: yesJournal of Strategic Security, 2018
This article reports on The International Center for Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE’s) small-scale Facebook ad awareness campaigns ran between December 7, 2017 and December 31, 2017 in the United States, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Anne Speckhard   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The roles of “old” and “new” media tools and technologies in the facilitation of violent extremism and terrorism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This chapter describes and discusses the roles of media tools and technologies in the facilitation of violent extremism and terrorism. Rather than focusing on how media report on terrorism, we investigate how extremist and terrorist groups and movements ...
Conway, Maura, Scrivens, Ryan
core   +2 more sources

Motivations for violent extremism: Evidence from lone offenders’ manifestos

open access: yesJournal of Social Issues, 2023
This study explores the motivational drivers of violent extremism by examining references to motivational goals—values—in texts written by lone offenders.
L. Grigoryan   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Improving the Regulatory Framework for Countering Extremism in the European Union (Case Study of Finland)

open access: yesМосковский журнал международного права, 2021
INTRODUCTION. The article, using the example of the Republic of Finland, analyzes the activities of the European Union (hereinafter referred to as the EU) to improve the legal regulation of countering extremism.
P. S. Dolgoshein
doaj   +1 more source

Crowdsourcing Samples for Research on Violent Extremism: A Research Note

open access: yesTerrorism and Political Violence, 2023
As research on violent extremism continues to progress beyond some of the field’s earlier challenges, new ways of gathering primary source data are becoming increasingly popular.
C. Clemmow   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bad Men, Good Men, and Loving Women: Gender Constructions in British State Messaging on Counterterrorism, Countering Violent Extremism and Preventing Violent Extremism

open access: yesTerrorism and Political Violence, 2023
The United Kingdom presents itself as a leader in counterterrorism (CT), countering violent extremism (CVE) and preventing violent extremism (PVE). The Action Counters Terrorism Campaign is a public-facing campaign of the U.K. government aimed at raising
Harmonie Toros
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Violent Radicalism and the Psychology of Prepossession [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Psychological Bulletin, 2018
The phenomenon of violent radicalism/extremism is portrayed as a consequence of a mechanism that fosters extremism in general. This is the process of motivational imbalance or “prepossession”, a state wherein a given need becomes dominant to the point of
Arie W. Kruglanski
doaj   +3 more sources

From Conversion to Violent Extremism: Empirical Analysis of Three Canadian Muslim Converts to Islam

open access: yesJournal for Deradicalization, 2021
The scholarship on radicalization to violence often treats born Muslims and converts interchangeably; far too little research is focused on understanding the factors and processes driving converts in particular.
Denis Suljić, Alex Wilner
doaj  

Death Reminders Increase Agreement With Extremist Views but Not Violent Extremist Action in Indonesian Muslims [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Using terror management theory, we examined whether mortality salience (MS; death-related cognitions) increased support for religious and political extremism and/or violent extremism in young Indonesian Muslims.
Ana-Maria Bliuc   +9 more
core   +2 more sources

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