Push and Pull Factors in Disengagement from Islamic Extremist Organizations
No single factor explains why people withdraw from high-risk activism or political violence; disengagement typically happens because of growing disagreements over time as opposed to singular triggering events.
The Role of Group Identity in Initiating, Sustaining, and Disengaging from Participation in Violent Extremism
Although participation in violent extremism is often thought of as ideologically driven, it is better understood as driven by a need for identity and belonging.
Digital Interventions to Interrupt Hate Online: The Work of Moonshot
Moonshot is a global social enterprise working to end online harms, applying evidence, ethics, and human rights to this endeavor.
Researching the Causes of Radicalization and Violent Extremism: What Do We Know?
Peer-reviewed research on radicalization and violent extremism identifies a “basic structure of the process of radicalization” where an individual has “real or perceived political grievance(s),” perceives participation in violent extremism as somehow appealing or beneficial, and has a “personal vulnerability” expressed as certain personality traits or a mental health concern.
Special Issue: Countering Hate and Violent Extremism
We are pleased to present our special issue on countering hate and violent extremism in collaboration with Thought Partnerships.
Everyday Racism and Violence in Brazil’s Favelas
Racism has a significant impact on favela residents’ daily lives, visibly through police killings but also invisibly through everyday interactions of discrimination and distrust.
Which Women’s Rights? Exploring Gender and Peace in Afghanistan
Rural villagers understood girls’ access to education and women’s economic opportunities outside the home as indicators of everyday peace.
Creating the “Problem of Extremism”
The turn from the GWOT to CVE, with its focus on prevention, broadened the monitoring mandate of security agencies, enabling them to apply tactics based on the assumption that anyone (but mostly the most traditionally marginalized) can be a potential “terrorist” or “extremist,” thereby justifying surveillance, intelligence gathering, and other civil rights violations of so-called suspects.
The Human Experience of Counterterrorism in the Global War on Terror (GWOT)
Violence prevention policy-making must start from an understanding of the lived experience of communities most affected by the GWOT in order to not be complicit in harmful and structurally racist policies.
How Successful Was the Global War on Terror? Evidence of a Backlash Effect
The backlash of retaliatory transnational terrorist attacks experienced by coalition countries demonstrates the Global War on Terror did not meet its key objective of keeping citizens safe from terrorism.
“There is no military solution.” Time to get real about it.
by Patrick T. Hiller “There is no military solution to the conflict.” That was the conclusion reached by the Biden administration earlier this year, which set into motion the plans for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of August. Nearing the termination of this process, in a few short days we witnessed the … Read more
