This month, RESOLVE highlights recommended readings from Part I of the 2020 RESOLVE Network Global Forum, "Violent Extremism in 2020 and Beyond." At the virtual event, Mary Beth Altier, Amarnath Amarasingam, and Colin P. Clarke discussed how the violent extremism landscape has changed in the five years since the “fall” of ISIS; how rising global instability, populism, and disinformation have altered violent extremist operations and ideologies; and the challenges of addressing violent extremism in the new threat landscape. The publications in this What We’re Reading encompass the ideas presented by the speakers at the Forum and provide insights into the theories and trends of violent extremism research.  

Martha Crenshaw. “The Psychology of Terrorism: An Agenda for the 21st Century” Political Psychology, June 2000. https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/31147895/psychology_of_terrorism.pdf?1366357686=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DThe_Psychology_of_Terrorism_An_Agenda_fo.pdf&Expires=1606267896&Signature=OFSR46onO2hKHxtUbW-5Q1kbJKYXKNOzlD3-x7ULgBH2aR-1umg3vDHAbmWmTmspI3rcDzFyIVXfP00w-HOIMa6KMy9Win3FT95tpSwG8R44IoaKR~UwcBndfTmlEqfFQ10l6uVoZuYJG3bqnrDGTzSaTncRw2V3PflijULVuJJ0MDWe3N4ytyyBNz0YMxOGQclW4CkERQixkyhdUN3dEw~hc7-aizgHvP2Qfl-lf-Sr0tzfL-RlrsTcya0WJa0-JCUAcunTnC8mS0dB1cjvuglPZ~ZMDk56ot0Ga8zHYHu7Iwwg9K4l8FpW0hQuYIlu2lYgZ4-~nlC4NJLAcdUKaA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA 

Paul Wilkinson. “Terrorism Versus Democracy: The Liberal State Response” Routledge, February 2011. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=AKS0kZGhRD0C&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=paul+wilkinson+terrorism&ots=v4j2MfN_dP&sig=UJDVBpl9yUGtQq3VVH0Fvc6CpRw#v=onepage&q=paul%20wilkinson%20terrorism&f=false 

Stanley J. Tambiah. “Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy” The University of Chicago Press, August 1991. https://books.google.com/books?id=KTjbyc-A-SoC&printsec=copyright#v=onepage&q&f=false 

Max Fisher and Amanda Taub. “‘Overrun,’ ‘Outbred,’ ‘Replaced’: Why Ethnic Majorities Lash Out Over False Fears” The New York Times, April 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/world/asia/sri-lanka-populism-ethnic-tensions.html 

Colin P. Clarke and Amarnath Amarasingam. “Where Do ISIS Fighters Go When the Caliphate Falls?” The Atlantic, March 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/03/isis-foreign-fighter-jihad-syria-iraq/518313/ 

Mary Beth Altier, Emma Leonard Boyle, Neil D. Shortland, John G. Horgan. “Why They Leave: An Analysis of Terrorist Disengagement Events from Eighty-seven Autobiographical Accounts” Security Studies, March 2017. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09636412.2017.1280307 

Colin P. Clarke. “Remember Us? Islamic State Stays Active During Coronavirus Pandemic” Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 2020. https://www.fpri.org/article/2020/05/remember-us-islamic-state-stays-active-during-coronavirus-pandemic/ 

James Cockayne, Siobhan O’Neil, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Naureen Chowdhury Fink, and Bruce Oswald. “UN DDR in an Era of Violent Extremism: Is It Fit for Purpose?” United Nations University, February 2015. https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/files/un_ddr_in_an_era_of_violent_extremism.pdf 

Richard McNeil-Willson. “Framing in times of crisis: Responses to COVID-19 amongst Far- Right movements and organisations” International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, June 2020. https://icct.nl/publication/framing-in-times-of-crisis/