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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"violent extremism"”.
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Radicalisation and Violent Extremism in United Kingdom Prisons
… recruitment of inmates into radical ideology and violent extremist orientation. This study therefore posed several critical questions: What makes prison radicalisation distinct from other channels of radicalisation? What specific prisons administrative systems in the UK foster radicalisation and …
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Community Cohesion and Countering Violent Extremism in the United States: A Case Study of Metro Detroit
Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs and policies are being developed and implemented across the country. CVE is being criticized by various community leaders and members due to its inherent criminalizing nature as it is currently put into place by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the …
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The Emergence of Violent Extremism: Threats to Social Identity and Psychological Motivations Underlying Identity-Defining Extreme Aggression
… = 152). A literature review has been provided on extremism and the social psychological conditions under which esteem and uncertainty can lead to violence and other extremist behaviors that are identity defining. Based on prior research, it was hypothesized that individuals with increased …
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An Analysis of the Efficacy of Post 9/11 Security Policy in Countering Violent Extremism and Reducing Acts of International Terrorism
<p>Terrorism is a phenomenon that baffles even the most experienced of researchers within academia. Understanding what constitutes terrorism is important to the field of international relations because combatting terrorist violence yields no straightforward method of prevention and protection. This …
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Connections among communities: preventing radicalization and violent extremism through social network analysis in the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) framework
… individual to radicalize and to commit acts of violent extremism and terrorism. This thesis explored the viability of using social network analysis (SNA) as a tool in the nation's Threat and Hazard Identification Risk Assessment (THIRA) framework to determine whether factors (such as …
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Counter-Intuitive: Strategic Communications' Role in P/CVE 'Counternarratives'
… in the field of Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE). Challenging extremist ideas online and offline is important for national security. Governments, civil society groups and tech companies are all involved in this effort. The continuous growth of online extremist content has …
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The Digital Caliphate: critically examining the Islamic State’s use of cyberspace to advance it’s overarching goals
… goals, the relationship between cyberspace and violent extremism remains an extremely nuanced and contentious area of study, laying the foundations for deeper academic investigation.
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The roles of differentiation and integration, metacognition and emotion regulation in increasing cognitive complexity
… in the field of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). This research maps factors that play a role in interventions that have raised complexity, presenting them in a moderated serial multiple mediation model. The factors include a newly-termed variable of differentiation and …
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Counterterrorism: The G5 Response Efforts to Combat Terrorism in the Sahel region
… for terrorism along with a growing threat of violent extremism and other organized crime. In response to the threat, regional leaders and the international community are working together to address the threat of terrorist activities in the area. This effort involves the Group of Five (G5) …
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The themes and peculiarities of the Islamic State’s propaganda
… Islamic State, propaganda, radicalization, violent extremism
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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
… issue of domestic radicalization and homegrown violent extremism. The individuals involved in these developments have come from a broad cross-section of various ethnic, socioeconomic, cultural, and geographic backgrounds in the United States, making it difficult for law enforcement and the …
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Preventing Community Violence: A Case Study of Metro Detroit and Interfaith Activism
… violence, specifically gang violence and violent extremism.
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Understanding and defining threats to national security and public safety: a thematic analysis and grounded theory approach
… I/P/R Motivated instances, I/P/R Motivated Violent Extremism, and hate-motivated incidences occupy points along the National Security – Public Safety Continuum (NS-PS Continuum).
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The fascination of the 'Islamic State': Perceived iInjustice and crises of identity - why German citizens join the extremist organization
… socio-economic circumstances lead young men into violent extremism, this thesis studies their paths to radicalization from a socio-psychological perspective.
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From Counter-Narratives to Cultural Productions: A practice-led model to challenge extremists’ worldview in the cultural sphere
… 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 evidence supports the positive effect of …
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Europeanization of Foreign Aid: Managing Post-9/11 Fragile, Conflict-Affected States
… Within this epoch the EU was confronted by violent extremism/terrorism and irregular-migration flows. Nonetheless, fragile states risked being ‘aid orphans’. They can be unattractive to aid-donors due to the foreign aid dilemma whereby those states and peoples exhibiting the direst need of …
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Breaking the masculine looking glass : women as co-founders, nurturers, and executors of extremism in New Zealand : a thesis presented in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Defence and Security, Massey University, New Zealand
… Yet when it comes to women's active presence in violent extremism (VE) and Extremism/Terrorism (E&T), general skepticism about women’s agency and free will means that any discussion will be focused on men. Focusing on the NZ environment post 9/11, this thesis presents insight into how women can, …
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Between rejection and coping: the consolidation of turkish identity in Germany
… political participation and resilience to violent extremism. We found that while a generalised threat (e.g., towards non-Germans) promote national identification, a specific threat (e.g., towards Turks) undermine the same and increase the ethnic identification. Besides, both appraisal of …
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The ‘Prevent’ Strategy in Bedfordshire.‘Has the Government Prevent Strategy been implemented effectively for the Muslim communities in Bedfordshire? Do members of that community and practitioners view it as a positive or negative contribution to community cohesion, engagement and protection from vulnerability to radical extremism?
… to support the Muslim community in tackling violent extremism. It is a strategy that requires local partnership delivery in the same way that community cohesion policy and strategy does. However, it has been viewed as a police led agenda, which some feel has actually damaged the cohesion that …
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Pathways to (Prevent) Radicalization: How Uncertainty and Identity Complexity Shape Vulnerability
<p>Violent radicalization and politically motivated violence are pressing concerns that threaten global peace, security, and social cohesion. Violence is costly, in both lives and resources, and reactive measures have failed to decrease its occurrence. In a world marked by uncertainty where some …
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