What We're Reading
November 2020 | 2020 RESOLVE Network Global Forum Part I
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.
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Research on political terrorism, which began in the early 1970s, faces some persistent problems. These involve defining the concept, collecting empirical data, building integrative theory...
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This book examines the terrorist networks that operate globally and analyzes the long-term future of terrorism and terrorist-backed insurgencies. Terrorism remains a serious problem for t...
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Focusing on the historical events of post-independence Sri Lanka, S. J. Tambiah analyzes the causes of the violent conflict between the majority Sinhalese Buddhists and the minority Tamil...
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Ask a member of Sri Lanka's dominant ethnic group why the country seems plagued by racial and religious strife, which is resurging in the wake of terrifying Islamist terrorist attacks, an...
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With the end of the Islamic State's so-called caliphate across the Middle East, the focus will shift to what ISIS's foreign fightersâwho at their peak numbered tens of thousands from do...
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A deeper understanding of terrorist disengagement offers important insights for policymakers and practitioners seeking to persuade individuals to leave these groups. Current research high...
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While the world has been understandably consumed by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), as it continues to devastate entire countries and regions, numerous terrorist and insurgent groups...
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The UN's disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) efforts are today confronted by a complex strategic environment. Increasingly, UN peace operations deploy to conflict situati...
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This paper examines various framing processes have been developed by Far-Right groups specifically in response to the global health crisis brought about by the spread of COVID-19.