Three Pillars of Radicalization Needs, Narratives, and Networks
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Biographical note
Arie W. Kruglanski is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He is the recipient of several awards including the National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Donald Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, and presently serves as co-founder and senior investigator at the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism. His research interests are in the domains of human judgment and decision making, the motivation-cognition interface, group and intergroup processes, the psychology of human goals, and the social psychological aspects of terrorism. Jocelyn J. Bélanger is Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research seeks to understand why, and under which circumstances, individuals are willing to sacrifice their lives for a cause. Dr. Bélanger is the architect behind Montreal's Centre for the Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence. He also trains psychologists and social workers on the rehabilitation and reintegration of violent extremist offenders. Dr. Bélanger is the recipient of several awards such as the APA Dissertation Research Award and the Guy Bégin Award for the Best Research Paper in Social Psychology. Rohan Gunaratna is Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technology University, and Head of International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Singapore. The author and editor of 20 books including Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (Columbia University Press), Gunaratna edited the Insurgency and Terrorism Series of the Imperial College Press, London. A trainer for national security agencies, law enforcement authorities, and military counter-terrorism units, he has interviewed terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and other conflict zones. For advancing international intelligence cooperation, Gunaratna received the Major General Ralph H. Van Deman Award in June 2014.The book is not only comprehensive in its scope, it is a pioneering work in that it breaks new ground in understanding radicalization and charts the way for making de-radicalization programmes more effective.
Adil Rasheed, Strategic Analysis
This impressive co-authored study presents a novel approach to analyzing processes of radicalization and de-radicalization as well as the prevention of recidivism. The explanation combines individual motivation based on a need for significance, exposure to an ideological narrative that justifies violence, and membership in a supportive social network that validates the individual's choice. The authors ground their argument in wide-ranging evidence from questionnaires, surveys, and interviews. The book contributes enormously to our understanding of violent extremism in the contemporary world.
Martha Crenshaw, Professor and Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
This important work, based on rare empirical field research with violent extremists and at risk populations, offers not only the most comprehensive psychological analysis to date of factors that drive radicalization and deradicalization, but also offers clear guides as to best practices and policies for preventing and reversing radicalization. In my operational experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, and later as President Obama's Special Envoy to the Counter ISIL Coalition, I would have benefited significantly from this research. I consider it a must read for all those engaged in the war of ideas, and committed to fighting this pernicious and impending global threat
John R. Allen, General, US Marine Corps (Ret.), former Commander, NATO ISAF and U.S. Forces Afghanistan (2011-2013) and Special Presidential Envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State
This deeply researched international study is a major contribution to understanding the roots of radicalisation, one of the most serious security challenges of today.
Lord Jonathan Evans, , KCB, DL and Director General, British Security Service (2007-2013)
This book is a welcome antidote to the common misconception that the brutally violent tactics of terrorist groups like ISIS and al Qaeda can only be understood as pathology. The authors offer a convincing argument that terrorist violence is the flip side of normative and even altruistic behavior: a tragic juxtaposition of the compelling individual need to seek personal significance joined with an ideological argument that prioritizes violence and a reference group to provide validation.
Gary LaFree, Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Founding Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland
A fine work that uses case studies and profiles from across the world to reveal, through accumulated empirical evidence and statistical models, the drivers and pathways to radicalization. The authors soundly argue that the scourge of Islamic extremism is far from over, and that its ultimate defeat requires interventions to reconfigure the intimate links between social networks and ideological narratives into alternative routes to personal significance that transcend mere material opportunities.
Scott Atran, Emeritus Director of Research in Anthropology, National Center for Scientific Research, France, Founding Fellow, Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, University of Oxford, and Research Professor of Psychology and Public Policy, University of Michigan