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September 2019 | CVE Frontiers

This month, the RESOLVE Team brings to you a selection of articles from the frontiers of countering violent extremism research, practice, and policy. These topics emerged at the 2019 RESOLVE Forum Network Meeting as research priorities for the future of countering violent extremism the next 5-10 years. Although some research exists on the nexus of climate change and conflict, crime and terrorism, and technology and counterterrorism, knowledge gaps remain on ecoterrorism, low-tech terrorism, child conflict trauma effects, gender dynamics, cybersecurity and closed online spaces, proxy warfare, and artificial intelligence—in relation to violent extremism. As the threat evolves in the digital age, it is time to proactively push the boundaries of CVE research and explore the frontiers of the known unknowns.

 

 

Burns, J. Jordan. “Preventing the World’s Next Refugee Crisis: Famine, Conflict, and Climate Change in Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen” American Security Project, May. 1, 2017. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep06035?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=terrorism&searchText=climate&searchText=change&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FsearchType%3DfacetSearch%26amp%3Bsd%3D2017%26amp%3Bed%3D%26amp%3BQuery%3Dterrorism%2Bclimate%2Bchange&ab_segments=0%2Fl2b_100k_with_tbsub%2Ftest&seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents 

Chalecki, Elizabeth L. “A New Vigilance: Identifying and Reducing the Risks of Environmental Terrorism” Global Environmental Politics, March 13, 2006. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/152638002317261463 

Dave, Aaditya. “Transnational Lessons from Terrorist Use of Social Media in South Asia” The Global Research Network on Terrorism and Technology, RUSI, 13 August 2019. https://rusi.org/publication/other-publications/transnational-lessons-terrorist-use-social-media-south-asia 

Decker, Scott H., and David C. Pyrooz. “I’m down for a Jihad”: How 100 Years of Gang Research Can Inform the Study of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism” Perspectives on Terrorism, February 2015.https://www.jstor.org/stable/26297330?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=organized&searchText=crime&searchText=violent&searchText=extremism&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dorganized%2Bcrime%2Bviolent%2Bextremism&ab_segments=0%2Fl2b_100k_with_tbsub%2Ftest&refreqid=search%3A550694a0ee83fc9ae03643882523d958&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents 

Hirsch-Hoefler, Sivan, and Cas Mudde. “Ecoterrorism”: Terrorist Threat or Political Ploy?” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, June 9, 2014. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2014.913121 

LaFree, Gary, and Laura Dugan. How Does Studying Terrorism Compare to Studying Crime? Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Criminological Perspectives, ed. Mathieu Deflem, 2004. https://www.start.umd.edu/publication/how-does-studying-terrorism-compare-studying-crime 

Okyere, Frank. “Statebuilding, Local Governance, and Organized Crime in Mali In: Leveraging Local Knowledge for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Africa” JSTOR, March 1, 2015. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep09572.7?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=organized&searchText=crime&searchText=violent&searchText=extremism&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dorganized%2Bcrime%2Bviolent%2Bextremism&ab_segments=0%2Fl2b_100k_with_tbsub%2Ftest&refreqid=search%3A550694a0ee83fc9ae03643882523d958&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents 

Özerdem, Alpaslan, and Sukanya Podder. “Disarming Youth Combatants: Mitigating Youth Radicalization and Violent Extremism” Journal of Strategic Security, Winter 2011 https://www.jstor.org/stable/26463912?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=organized&searchText=crime&searchText=violent&searchText=extremism&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dorganized%2Bcrime%2Bviolent%2Bextremism&ab_segments=0%2Fl2b_100k_with_tbsub%2Ftest&refreqid=search%3A550694a0ee83fc9ae03643882523d958&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents 

Parker, David, Julia M. Pearce, Lasse Lindekilde, and M. Brooke Rogers. “Challenges for Effective Counterterrorism Communication: Practitioner Insights and Policy Implications for Preventing Radicalization, Disrupting Attack Planning, and Mitigating Terrorist Attacks” Tandfonline, 26 Sep 2017.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610x.2017.1373427?tokenDomain=eprints&tokenAccess=PMijWNXA59ZSDknEBTrA&forwardService=showFullText&doi=10.1080%2F1057610x.2017.1373427&doi=10.1080%2F1057610x.2017.1373427&journalCode=uter20 

Smith, Paul J. “Climate Change, Weak States and the "War on Terrorism" in South and Southeast Asia” Contemporary Southeast Asia, August 2007. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25798831?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents 

Sumpter, Cameron, and Joseph Franco. “Migration, Transnational Crime and Terrorism: Exploring the Nexus in Europe and Southeast Asia” Perspectives on Terrorism, October 2018. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26515430?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=organized&searchText=crime&searchText=violent&searchText=extremism&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dorganized%2Bcrime%2Bviolent%2Bextremism&ab_segments=0%2Fl2b_100k_with_tbsub%2Ftest&refreqid=search%3A550694a0ee83fc9ae03643882523d958&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents 

“Terrorists on Telegram" Counter Extremism Project, May 2017. https://www.counterextremism.com/terrorists-on-telegram 

Littman, Rebecca. “Children and Extreme Violence: insights from social science on child trajectories into and out of non-state armed groups” United Nations University, 2017. https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:6290/unu_briefs_SocialScience.pdf 

van Schaik, Louise, and Tammo Bakker. “Climate-migration-security: Making the most of a contested relationship” Planetary Security Initiative, November 2017. https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep17344?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=conflict&searchText=environmental&searchText=security&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FsearchType%3DfacetSearch%26amp%3Bsd%3D2017%26amp%3Bed%3D%26amp%3BQuery%3Dconflict%2Benvironmental%2Bsecurity&ab_segments=0%2Fl2b_100k_with_tbsub%2Ftest&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents 

Zoli, Corri. “Is There Any Defense Against Low-Tech Terror?” Foreign Policy, October 2, 2017. https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/02/terror-has-gone-low-tech/