Why do some individuals pick up arms as opposed to others who live under the same conditions? Environmental and group theories fail to differentiate between these individuals. In response, we apply the cognitive mapping approach and model violence as decisions based on chains of beliefs about various types of factors,…
This report presents the analysis of a corpus of academic and grey literature relevant to a key challenge facing our society. How can media and communications be used to counter identity-based violence (IBV) or Violent Extremism (VE)?
In June 2014, a middle-aged woman riding a motorcycle approached the military barracks in the North Eastern Nigerian city of Gombe. While being searched at the military checkpoint, she detonated the explosives strapped to her body, ending her life and killing a soldier in the process. With this act, a…
Africa is in the thralls of a growing specter of gender-based violent extremism. The role of women in violent extremism has grown in tandem with the spiraling threat of terrorism globally. West Africa is the most affected region by terrorism and gender-based violent extremism. The region has turned to be…
EARLY LAST DECEMBER, two days after Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik murdered 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, the married couple’s landlord invited the media to tour their home. Inside the sparsely furnished town house, news crews trained their cameras on the dirty dishes that filled…
Russia’s North Caucasus insurgency has gone relatively quiet, as Moscow crushed militants and many left to fight in Syria and Iraq. But longstanding grievances remain and the war may only have widened, as evidenced by the bombing of a Russian airliner in Egypt and the emergence of new groups swearing…
UN Women Jordan and the Jordanian National Commission for Women commissioned Al-Hayat Center for Civil Society Development – RASED and Search for Common Ground conducted a study on the gendered dimensions of radicalization in Jordan. The research focused on the perceptions of men and women of radicalization in their communities,…
The establishment of the Vilayat-e Khorasan front of Daesh in Afghanistan has worried neighboring countries, because – unlike the Afghan Taliban, whose ambitions were limited to Afghan territory – Daesh seems to have its eyes on conquering territory beyond present day frontiers. Even if unable to conquer land, its physical…
The first edition of this Egmont Paper was released exactly one year ago. Its aim was to explore the wider context that could help explain the decision of thousands of mostly young European volunteers to journey to a faraway war theatre in the Levant. This Egmont Paper is a thoroughly…
Le concept de « radicalisation » célèbre cette année ses douze ans. Apparu pour la première fois dans un document de travail de l’Union européenne en mai 2004, il est devenu le Saint Graal du contreterrorisme. Il fait référence à la trajectoire qu’un individu entreprend en quittant son état dit…
Council of Europe document on guidelines for prison services.
In this paper we draw on our work at the World Bank to provide practical guidance on how the Bank and other donors might operationalize the WDR 2011 so as to promote the emergence of legitimate and effective institutions to manage justice and security in fragile and conflict affected states…
