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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"extremists"”.
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VIOLENT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS’ DERADICALIZATION: THE MALDIVES
… for the deradicalization of violent religious extremists in the Maldives. The study reveals that a successful deradicalization program requires a combination of several factors running concurrently to achieve the long-term goal of deradicalizing a violent extremist. The proposed Maldives’ …
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Protecting the Majority: A Study into the Difference in State Response to Militant Extremists
… that the political ideology of militant extremists and the selection of Majority or Minority target influences sentencing severity. The research uses information collected on 510 indictees in "The American Terrorism Study, 1980-2002", which was funded by the United States Department of …
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From Counter-Narratives to Cultural Productions: A practice-led model to challenge extremists’ worldview in the cultural sphere
The aim of this research is to challenge Islamic extremists’ worldview and address cognitive extremism in the cultural sphere. Counter-narratives were once believed to be capable of thwarting extremists’ narratives yet have been proven inefficient and even counterproductive. A growing body of …
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Myth, Mayhem, and Pseudo-Democracy: The Role of Political Myths in Mobilizing Nationalist Populist Movements and Political Extremists
<p>This body of research analyzes the enduring impact of political myth in nationalist populism and extremist movements. The rise of Western nationalist parties and acts of terror in the early 21st century gave life to this project. The manuscript advances two theories regarding political myths and …
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From Opinion Dynamics to Collective Action: How Identity-Based Tolerance Leads to Political Extremism
… view contradicts empirical evidence showing that extremists still represent a minority and individual opinions remain largely stable. We resolve this apparent paradox by illustrating how extreme collective action can arise from a moderate majority that retains moderate opinions yet responds …
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Comparing the narrative with facts: examining the impact of the presidency on right-wing domestic terrorism in the United States
… studies have examined the activity of right-wing extremists in relation to the actions of President Trump (Chyzh, Nieman, & Webb, 2019; Piazza, 2020). Comparatively, little research has examined the impact of the Obama presidency on right-wing extremism despite a peak in the number of right-wing …
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COINTELPRO and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Classification of Threats
… two identified targets of COINTELPRO, "black extremists" and "white hate groups", and whether the differences found between the treatment of the two targets as threats was a result of internal or external institutional factors. In conducting such study, I seek to determine if the factors that …
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"Jihad is the Way and Death for the Sake of Allah is our Highest Aspiration": A Narrative Analysis of Sayyid Qutb's Milestones
… critical interest in the communication between extremists and the outsiders they perceive as enemies, generating a fuller understanding of extremist ideology critical to counter-terrorism efforts. While this intergroup communication has remained a focus among scholars, the …
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The War of Ideology: International Terrorism and America's Response
… marginalize and decrease the next generation of extremists, America must recognize that it must win this war and provide for a clear and comprehensive strategy while adequately funding a new strategic communications infrastructure to win the War of Ideology.</p>
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Many bloody hands : responsibility for genocide in Rwanda
… monarchy, European colonialism, Hutu political extremists and both the indifference and inappropriate response of France, the United States and the United Nations for the evolution of the current crisis in Rwanda. The author found all of the accused partially or significantly responsible for the …
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The Global War on Terrorism in the Context of Great Power Politics
… this is a war against Islamic fundamentalists, extremists, and radicals. The Global War on Terrorism has allowed the peer competitors of the United States to gain concessions from the United States and, second, how the Global War on Terrorism has affected Russia and China. The thesis mainly …
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A Case Study of Leftist Terrorism in Turkey
… organizations, as well as ethnic and religious extremists. This thesis examines DHKP/C as the primary leftist revolutionary group effecting Turkey, exploring its historical background in Europe and the Middle East, as well as its philosophical link to Marxism. Further, this treatise discusses …
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Countering Islamic radicalization and Al Shabaab recruitment within the ethnic Somali population of the United States: an argument for applying best practices for stemming youth gang recruitment and initiation
… efforts to predict or determine where violent extremists will emerge. This thesis focuses on the Somali-American community in particular and the threat posed by a very small percentage of that community that has, in recent years, been drawn to violent extremist agendas in Somalia. This thesis …
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Jihadist Extremism and Its Roots in Religiously Motivated Terrorism
… religiously motivated acts of terror by jihadist extremists are committed. For nearly two decades, the United States has been engaged in a fight against the threat of terrorism and during this time the United States has used force as its main retaliatory response. In recent years, tools other than …
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United States Detention Policy in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency Operations: 2001 to 2011
… various transnational and radical religious extremists. The purpose of this thesis is to synthesise information from 76 primary source interviews and various secondary sources, analyse US detention operations, and provide suggestions for detention policy makers for future conflicts. These …
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A Typology of Homegrown Terrorists
… attacks by U.S.-based jihadist and Salafist extremists. This study aims to generate a typology of homegrown terrorists who have been prosecuted by the United States federal government for terrorism offenses within the United States since the 9/11 attacks. The current study uses a sample of …
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Radical Islam in Afghanistan: The Case of Al Qaeda
… the region. Many Afghans support these Islamic extremists due to political and socio-economic factors that plague the country. Despite these setbacks in the U.S. government's mission, the U.S. military will begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011. The U.S. government's success in …
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Extreme Ideologies, Situational Factors, and Terrorists’ Target Selection
… incidents perpetrated by far-right and Islamic extremists and target selection. The outcomes of interest include government versus citizenry targets and human versus non-human targets. Bivariate and multivariate statistical tests are used to examine how ideology and situational factors …
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Disinformation, Exclusion, and its Politics: Canadian Right-Wing Extremist Community within a Digital Landscape
… in recent years as lone-wolf right-wing extremists radicalized on the Internet take up arms against racialized groups they see as anathema to their White supremacist groups’ survival. This research examines right-wing extremist conceptions of out-groups (the ‘Other’) and resulting …
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Taming the "Wild West" integrating the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan
… provided fertile soil for religious extremism. Extremists continue to be educated, trained, and sheltered in madrassas operating in tribal areas. Extreme poverty in the FATA lands contributes to their 'wild west' atmosphere, including the proliferation of smuggling and other illegal trade. Fully …
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