Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

160 Results

Encountering Violence: The Movement and the Legitimation of Violence at the Eve of Italy's anni di piombo

24 February 2022

Pathways to radicalisation

Why Now? Timing Rebel Recruitment of Female Combatants

24 February 2022

Pathways to radicalisation

Watching ISIS: How Young Adults Engage with Official English-Language ISIS Videos

23 February 2022

Causes of radicalisation

Pathways to radicalisation

Extreme Criminals: Reconstructing Ideas of Criminality through Extremist Narratives

23 February 2022

Causes of radicalisation

Assessing the Threat of Incel Violence

23 February 2022

Radicalization Trajectories: An Evidence-Based Computational Approach to Dynamic Risk Assessment of “Homegrown” Jihadists

22 February 2022

Exploring the “Demand Side” of Online Radicalization: Evidence from the Canadian Context

22 February 2022

On the Durability of Terrorist Networks: Revealing the Hidden Connections between Jihadist Cells

22 February 2022

How “Alone” are Lone-Actors? Exploring the Ideological, Signaling, and Support Networks of Lone-Actor Terrorists

21 February 2022

Dar al-Islam: A Quantitative Analysis of ISIS’s French-Language Magazine

21 February 2022

A Comprehensive Doctrine for an Evolving Threat: Countering Terrorist Use of Social Networks

21 February 2022

Confronting Apocalyptic Terrorism: Lessons from France and Japan

18 February 2022

Jihadiship: From Radical Behavior to Radical Beliefs

18 February 2022

Military Counterterrorism Measures, Civil–Military Relations, and Democracy: The Cases of Turkey and the United States

18 February 2022

Does Domestic Political Instability Foster Terrorism? Global Evidence from the Arab Spring Era (2011–14)

17 February 2022

The Swedish Mujahideen: An Exploratory Study of 41 Swedish Foreign Fighters Deceased in Iraq and Syria

17 February 2022

What Motivates Muslims to Engage in Counterextremism? The Role of Identity, Efficacy, Emotions, and Morality.

16 February 2022

Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

Policy recommendations

Recruitment and Incitement to Violence in the Islamic State's Online Propaganda: Comparative Analysis of Dabiq and Rumiyah.

15 February 2022

Online Terrorist Recruitment

Former Extremist Interviews Current Extremist: Self-Disclosure and Emotional Engagement in Terrorism Studies

15 February 2022

Causes of radicalisation

“I Will Tell You a Story about Jihad”: ISIS’s Propaganda and Narrative Advertising

14 February 2022

Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

Online Terrorist Recruitment

The Anashid of the Islamic State: Influence, History, Text, and Sound

10 February 2022

Evaluating Case-Managed Approaches to Counter Radicalization and Violent Extremism: An Example of the Proactive Integrated Support Model (PRISM) Intervention.

9 February 2022

De-radicalisation

Policy recommendations

Risk of radicalization

Peacebuilding Beyond Terrorism? Revisiting the Narratives of the Basque Conflict

8 February 2022

Sexual Suppression and Political Agency: Evoking a Woman’s Support for the Islamic State

7 February 2022

Online Terrorist Recruitment

Feminization of Terror: Psychological Analysis of the Role of Women in Terrorist Structures

4 February 2022

Causes of radicalisation

Pathways to radicalisation

Preventing Violent Extremism: A Review of the Literature

3 February 2022

Trends of Anashid Usage in Da‘esh Video Messaging and Implications for Identifying Terrorist Audio and Video

2 February 2022

Visual Jihad: Constructing the “Good Muslim” in Online Jihadist Magazines

31 January 2022

Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

Femme Fatale: The Lethality of Female Suicide Bombers

27 January 2022

A Qualitative Analysis of Drivers among Military-Affiliated and Civilian Lone Actor Terrorists Inspired by Jihadism

25 January 2022

Causes of radicalisation

Policy documents

Preventing the Next Wave of Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Lessons Learned from the Experiences of Algeria and Tunisia.

21 January 2022

Social Learning and Social Control in the Off- and Online Pathways to Hate Crime and Terrorist Violence.

19 January 2022

Pathways to radicalisation

Policy recommendations

The Role of Islamist Ideology in Shaping Muslims Believers' Attitudes toward Terrorism: Evidence from Europe.

17 January 2022

Causes of radicalisation

Disengagement from Political Violence and Deradicalization: A Narrative-Dialogical Perspective

13 January 2022

De-radicalisation

Cultivating Trust and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Online Counternarratives Intended to Reduce Support for Terrorism

11 January 2022

De-radicalisation

When Being Bad is Good? Bringing Neutralization Theory to Subcultural Narratives of Right-Wing Violence

Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism: An Analysis of the Current Considerations and Barriers Inhibiting the Adoption of Counterterrorism Protective Security Measures

The Three Ps of Radicalization: Push, Pull and Personal. A Systematic Scoping Review of the Scientific Evidence about Radicalization Into Violent Extremism

Combating Violent Extremism: Voices of Former Right-Wing Extremists

Gendered Reflections? Extremism in the UK’s Radical Right and al-Muhajiroun Networks

Women Too: Explaining Gender Ideologies of Ethnopolitical Organizations

Outbidding and Gender: Dynamics in the Colombian Civil War

The Lure of (Violent) Extremism: Gender Constructs in Online Recruitment and Messaging in Indonesia

Pathways to radicalisation

Causes of radicalisation

Do White Supremacist Women Adopt Movement Archetypes of Mother, Whore, and Fighter?

Special Issue Introduction for Terrorism, Gender and Women: Toward an Integrated Research Agenda

From Pawn to Knights: The Changing Role of Women’s Agency in Terrorism?

Part and Parcel? Examining Al Shabaab and Boko Haram’s Violence Targeting Civilians and Violence Targeting Women

Exceptional Inclusion: Understanding the PKK’s Gender Policy

Radicalization Trajectories: An Evidence-Based Computational Approach to Dynamic Risk Assessment of “Homegrown” Jihadists

25 February 2020

A Guide to Interviewing Terrorists and Violent Extremists

19 February 2020

Terms and Definitions

Archetypal Terrorist Events in the United States

18 November 2019

Muslim Youth Unemployment and Expat Jihadism: Bored to Death?

15 November 2019

The Strategy of Exclusion in American Counterterrorism

11 November 2019

Community Stakeholder Responses to Countering Violent Extremism Locally

8 November 2019

De-radicalisation

Pseudo-Radicalism and the De-Radicalization of Educated Youth in Indonesia

4 November 2019

Is It Terrorism?: Public Perceptions, Media, and Labeling the Las Vegas Shooting

9 September 2019

Greece’s Ulrike Meinhof: Pola Roupa and the Revolutionary Struggle

Recruitment and Incitement to Violence in the Islamic State’s Online Propaganda: Comparative Analysis of Dabiq and Rumiyah

Jihadiship: From Radical Behavior to Radical Beliefs

“The Lions of Tomorrow”: A News Value Analysis of Child Images in Jihadi Magazines

Visual Jihad: Constructing the “Good Muslim” in Online Jihadist Magazines

Fluidity of the Fringes: Prior Extremist Involvement as a Radicalization Pathway

Disrupting Daesh: Measuring Takedown of Online Terrorist Material and Its Impacts

Exploring the “Demand Side” of Online Radicalization: Evidence from the Canadian Context

18 February 2019

Confronting Apocalyptic Terrorism: Lessons from France and Japan

15 February 2019

Terms and Definitions

Testing Transitions: Extremist Prisoners Re-Entering Indonesian Society

8 February 2019

De-radicalisation

Exploring the “Demand Side” of Online Radicalization: Evidence from the Canadian Context

12 November 2018

Confronting Apocalyptic Terrorism: Lessons from France and Japan

7 November 2018

The Spiritual Teacher and His Truants: The Influence and Relevance of Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi

31 October 2018

Ideological Rigidity and Flexibility of Secular and Religious Terror Groups: The Case of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Hamas

26 October 2018

#Westgate: A Case Study: How al-Shabaab used Twitter during an Ongoing Attack

18 October 2018

“Electronic Jihad”: The Internet as Al Qaeda's Catalyst for Global Terror

16 October 2018

Radicalization Trajectories: An Evidence-Based Computational Approach to Dynamic Risk Assessment of “Homegrown” Jihadists

12 October 2018

How “Alone” are Lone-Actors? Exploring the Ideological, Signaling, and Support Networks of Lone-Actor Terrorists

The Three Ps of Radicalization: Push, Pull and Personal. A Systematic Scoping Review of the Scientific Evidence about Radicalization Into Violent Extremism

On the Durability of Terrorist Networks: Revealing the Hidden Connections between Jihadist Cells

Avatars of the Earth: Radical Environmentalism and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Weapons

Unholy Alliance: The Connection between the East German Stasi and the Right-Wing Terrorist Odfried Hepp

The Labor Market and Terrorism

Hyperlinked Sympathizers: URLs and the Islamic State

The Anashid of the Islamic State: Influence, History, Text, and Sound

The Swedish Mujahideen: An exploratory study of 41 Swedish foreign fighters deceased in Iraq and Syria

Cultivating Trust and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Online Counternarratives Intended to Reduce Support for Terrorism

De-radicalisation

Watching ISIS: How Young Adults Engage with Official English-Language ISIS Videos

Terrorist Decision Making in the Context of Risk, Attack Planning, and Attack Commission

Extreme Criminals: Reconstructing Ideas of Criminality through Extremist Narratives

Disengagement from Political Violence and Deradicalization: A Narrative-Dialogical Perspective

De-radicalisation

Peacebuilding Beyond Terrorism? Revisiting the Narratives of the Basque Conflict

De-radicalisation

Telling the Story of the National Socialist Underground (NSU): A Narrative Media Analysis

When and How Do Militias Disband? Global Patterns of Pro-Government Militia Demobilization in Civil Wars

De-radicalisation

Barking Mosque and Quintessential Insight: Overcoming the Problematic Government/Community Counterterrorism Partnership in the UK

De-radicalisation

War of Nerves: The Domestic Terror Threat and the Belgian Army

Discussions on Policy

Exploiting the Prophet's Authority: How Islamic State Propaganda Uses Hadith Quotation to Assert Legitimacy

The Strategic Logic of Women in Jihadi Organizations

The Strategy of Exclusion in American Counterterrorism

Policy documents

Muslim Youth Unemployment and Expat Jihadism: Bored to Death?

Community Stakeholder Responses to Countering Violent Extremism Locally

Discussions on Policy

Identity, Ideology, and Information: The Sources of Iraqi Public Support for the Islamic State

End of the Lone Wolf: The Typology that Should Not Have Been

6 February 2018

Waves of the Black Banner: An Exploratory Study on the Dutch Jihadist Foreign Fighter Contingent in Syria and Iraq

26 January 2018

Leaderless Resistance and the Truly Leaderless: A Case Study Test of the Literature-Based Findings

25 January 2018

Transitional Journeys Into and Out of Extremism. A Biographical Approach

25 January 2018

Reality Versus Perception: Toward Understanding Boko Haram in Nigeria

19 January 2018

Organizational [Dis]trust: Comparing Disengagement Among Former Left-Wing and Right-Wing Violent Extremists

De-radicalisation

Wasted Words? The Limitations of U.S. Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy

15 December 2017

De-radicalisation

What Does the “Terrorist” Label Really Do? Measuring and Explaining the Effects of the “Terrorist” and “Islamist” Categories

13 December 2017

“@ me if you need shoutout”: Exploring Women's Roles in Islamic State Twitter Networks

7 December 2017

Online as the New Frontline: Affect, Gender, and ISIS-Take-Down on Social Media

ISIL's Execution Videos: Audience Segmentation and Terrorist Communication in the Digital Age

Beyond the Pale? Exploring Prospects for Negotiations with Al Qaeda and the Islamic State

18 September 2017

De-radicalisation

Revolutionary Terror in the Colombian Civil War

15 September 2017

Two Stories for Two Nations: Public Diplomacy in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

13 September 2017

The Coming Genocide? Burundi's Past, Present, and Potentially Deadly Future

12 September 2017

An Analysis of Inspire and Dabiq: Lessons from AQAP and Islamic State's Propaganda War

Why negotiate when you can criminalise? Lessons for conflict transformation from Northern Ireland and South Africa

Discussions on Policy

Terrorist Attacks on the Energy Sector: The Case of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State

The Call to Jihad: Charismatic Preachers and the Internet

Talking to Foreign Fighters: Insights into the Motivations for Hijrah to Syria and Iraq

Counterterrorism Effectiveness to Jihadists in Western Europe and the United States: We Are Losing the War on Terror

Discussions on Policy

Foreign Fighters and Transnational Jihad in Syria

What Role Have Former ETA Terrorists Played in Counterterrorism and Counterradicalization Initiatives in Spain?

De-radicalisation

What Terrorist Leaders Want: A Content Analysis of Terrorist Propaganda Videos

Constructing Expertise: Terrorist Recruitment and “Talent Spotting” in the PIRA, Al Qaeda, and ISIS

9 December 2016

Old Becomes New Again: Kidnappings by Daesh and Other Salafi-Jihadists in the Twenty-First Century

30 November 2016

Brothers, Believers, Brave Mujahideen: Focusing Attention on the Audience of Violent Jihadist Preachers

23 November 2016

From Cubs to Lions: A Six Stage Model of Child Socialization into the Islamic State

18 November 2016

Terrorist Learning: A New Analytical Framework

28 October 2016

Coercive Radicalization: Charismatic Authority and the Internal Strategies of ISIS and the Lord's Resistance Army

28 September 2016

Killing People, Dividing a Nation? Analyzing Student Perceptions of the Boko Haram Crisis in Nigeria

14 September 2016

The Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the Domestic Security Dilemma

6 September 2016

Discussions on Policy

A Community-Level Comparison of Terrorism Movements in the United States

Causes of radicalisation

Homegrown Violent Extremism in Trinidad and Tobago: Local Patterns, Global Trends

The Islamic State’s Evolving Chemical Arsenal

The Non-Random Nature of Terrorism : An Exploration of Where and How Global Trends of Terrorism Have Developed Over 40 Years

Islamic State Nasheeds As Messaging Tools

Determining the Role of the Internet in Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Six Suggestions for Progressing Research

Studying Police Files with Grounded Theory Methods to Understand Jihadist Networks

Mapping the Minds of Suicide Bombers using Linguistic Methods: The Corpus of Palestinian Suicide Bombers' Farewell Letters (CoPSBFL)

Pathways to radicalisation

Endgames: Improving our understanding of homegrown terrorism

Differentiating Al Qaeda and the Islamic State through strategies publicized in Jihadist magazines

A Palestinian woman's place in terrorism: Organized perpetrators or individual actors?

Towards a guide for constructing and disseminating counternarratives to reduce support for terrorism

26 January 2016

De-radicalisation

Toward a behavioral model of “homegrown” radicalization trajectories

22 January 2016

Causes of radicalisation

Pathways to radicalisation

The Islamic State: A clash within the Muslim civilization for the new caliphate

20 January 2016

Discussions on Policy

Why ISIS' message resonates: Leveraging Islam, socio-political catalysts and adaptive messaging

18 January 2016

Causes of radicalisation

Countering jihadi terrorists and radicals the French way

14 November 2015

Quantifying and Qualifying Charisma: A Theoretical Framework for Measuring the Presence of Charismatic Authority in Terrorist Groups

Causes of radicalisation

The Impact of Jihadist Foreign Fighters on Indigenous Secular-Nationalist Causes: Contrasting Chechnya and Syria

23 February 2015

Key Issues and Research Agendas in Lone Wolf Terrorism

19 November 2014

Causes of radicalisation

Whom Do They Recruit?: Profiling and Recruitment in the PKK/KCK

24 September 2014

Pathways to radicalisation

The Neglected Role of Charismatic Authority in the Study of Terrorist Groups and Radicalization

23 September 2014

Causes of radicalisation

Moral Disengagement and Building Resilience to Violent Extremism: An Education Intervention

23 September 2014

De-radicalisation

Options and Strategies for Countering Online Radicalization in the United States

De-radicalisation

Discussions on Policy

Violent Radicalization in Europe: What We Know and What We Do Not Know

Causes of radicalisation

Male and Female Suicide Bombers: Different Sexes, Different Reasons?

2 December 2013

The Enigma of Lone Wolf Terrorism: An Assessment

22 October 2013

Interviews with Canadian radicals

Failed states and the spread of terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa

25 January 2012

“Holy terror”: The implications of terrorism motivated by a religious imperative

30 September 2011

Defining Religious Terrorism: A Causal and Anthological Profile

Terms and Definitions