In this month’s “What We Are Reading” digest, the RESOLVE Network highlights experts and research areas featured at the Global Forum on September 20, 2018 at the U.S. Institute of Peace. The Forum explores individual and social conduits of extremism and leads the way for research, practice, and policy from complex systems to meaningful interventions. The articles present unique methods and approaches to better conceptualize, understand, and counter violent extremism, borrowing perspectives from peacebuilding, public health, comedy, and nonviolent movements. Click the links to learn more.

Governance and Security 

Ginty, Roger Mac, and Pamina Firchow. “Everyday Peace Indicators: Capturing local voices through surveys” Shared Space: A research journal on peace, conflict and community relations in Northern Ireland, November 2014.https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/38607397/Roger_Mac_Ginty.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1536686089&Signature=pUgDAtZ%2BWVK%2BWhtY9joigSOy8hI%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DMac_Ginty_Roger_and_Firchow_Pamina._2014.pdf  

Ginty, Roger Mac, and Pamina Firchow. “Top-down and bottom-up narratives of peace and conflict” Politics, April 21, 2016. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263395715622967  

Slutkin, Gary, Charles Ransford, and Daria Zvetina. “How the Health Sector Can Reduce Violence by Treating It as a Contagion” AMA Journal of Ethics, January 2018. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-health-sector-can-reduce-violence-treating-it-contagion/2018-01. 

Meserole, Chris. “Evidence-based keys to a stable, post-caliphate Iraq” Brookings, July 26, 2017. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/07/26/evidence-based-keys-to-a-stable-post-caliphate-iraq/ 

Ideas  

Stephan, Maria, and Leanne Erdberg. “To Defeat Terrorism, Use People Power” International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, March 28, 2018. https://www.usip.org/publications/2018/03/defeat-terrorism-use-people-power  

Chenoweth, Erica, and Maria J. Stephan. “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict” Columbia University Press, 2011. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820 

Intervention Demographics 

Niconchuk, Mike, and Mohammad Kheir. “Turning into Butterflies: A Syrian’s Reflection on Despair and Disgrace” European Union, 2017 March 8. http://www.betweenbordersinternational.org/blog/turning-into-butterflies-a-syrian-s-reflection-on-despair-and-disgrace  

Heywood, Emma. “The work of women’s NGOs on commercial radio in the West Bank: Frustrations and shortcomings” Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, Volume 16, Number 1, April 2018, pp. 59-75(17). http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/125879/ 

Bruer, Wesley. “Laughing at ISIS to defeat them” CNN, July 21, 2017. https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/21/politics/laughing-at-isis-in-india/index.html 

Political Violence 

Ebner, Julia. “The currency of the far-right: why neo-Nazis love bitcoin” The Guardian, January 24, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/24/bitcoin-currency-far-right-neo-nazis-cryptocurrencies  

Morton, Jesse, and Mitchell Silber. “NYPD vs. Revolution Muslim: The Inside Story of the Defeat of a Local Radicalization Hub” Combating Terrorism Center, April 2018. https://ctc.usma.edu/nypd-vs-revolution-muslim-inside-story-defeat-local-radicalization-hub/