An Initial Study on Radicalization Risk Factors: Towards an Assessment Software Tool

Gilperez-Lopez, Irene; Torregrosa, Javier; Barhamgi, Mahmoud; Camacho, David

doi:10.1109/dexa.2017.19

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“…The classification as a risk factor/protector is based on the findings of national and international studies, the evaluation of biographies of violent Islamist offenders carried out as part of the project and discussions with experts in the field of "state protection". For example, previous research findings [54][55][56][57] indicate that violent acts motivated by Islamism are committed almost exclusively by men. Furthermore, most perpetrators are under thirty years of age [55] and are usually not married.…”

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“…For example, previous research findings [54][55][56][57] indicate that violent acts motivated by Islamism are committed almost exclusively by men. Furthermore, most perpetrators are under thirty years of age [55] and are usually not married. Other factors include the attitude towards violence and the social context in which a person lives or communicates his or her attitude.…”

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Instruments and Tools to Identify Radical Textual Content

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The Internet and social networks are increasingly becoming a media of extremist propaganda. On homepages, in forums or chats, extremists spread their ideologies and world views, which are often contrary to the basic liberal democratic values of the European Union. It is not uncommon that violence is used against those of different faiths, those who think differently, and members of social minorities. This paper presents a set of instruments and tools developed to help investigators to better address hybrid security threats, i.e., threats that combine physical and cyber attacks. These tools have been designed and developed to support security authorities in identifying extremist propaganda on the Internet and classifying it in terms of its degree of danger. This concerns both extremist content on freely accessible Internet pages and content in closed chats. We illustrate the functionalities of the tools through an example related to radicalisation detection; the data used here are just a few tweets, emails propaganda, and darknet posts. This work was supported by the EU granted PREVISION (Prediction and Visual Intelligence for Security Intelligence) project.

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“…Due to the importance that contextual, social and psychological factors have in the youngsters adoption of extremist ideologies [6], the European Union has funded several intervention programs to prevent youngsters radicalization such as RaP 1 , Champions 2 , WayOut 3 , Bridge 4 or ARMOUR 5 . Most of these projects' approach focus on promoting social and personal skills, through the use of traditional methodologies such as moral dilemmas or group discussions, to improve resilience against extremism.…”

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YoungRes: A Serious Game-Based Intervention to Increase Youngsters Resilience Against Extremist Ideologies

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Menéndez-Ferreira³

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Extremist ideologies are proliferating nowadays in both political and social levels. Considering that youngsters are in a development stage where they are still conforming their own social identity, they become especially vulnerable to these ideologies' influence. Therefore, it becomes critical to provide them with the psychological skills to rationalize and resist those influences. Video games, which are already a technology commonly consumed by these generations, provide a way to motivate and engage youngsters. Therefore, implementing these video games in interventions to increase psychological resilience represents an opportunity to create an innovative learning approach. Following this motivation, this paper has three main objectives: adapting a traditional emotional intelligence training program to a novel serious game based intervention, called YoungRes; providing a metric to measure the student' evolution based on ingame behavioural patterns, instead of indirect measures; and evaluating the impact of the intervention itself after its implementation. To do so, an 11 sessions intervention was applied to 36 students from two primary schools in Spain. Quantitative and qualitative data was extracted from the experience, consisting on data extracted from the player's behaviour and a final survey. A detailed statistical analysis carried out showed two main outcomes: first, the serious game based intervention was very appreciated by the students, specially by those who frequently play video games; second, the intervention allowed to improve several emotional intelligence competences, such as active listening and controlled breathing, as well as to promote knowledge about the Islamic culture. Finally, the authors discussed about how the game could be improved for future applications in schools.

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“…This has been deeply studied, for example, in the case of Islamic radicalization. 4 Research suggests that the experience of belonging to a group and being accepted by peers, or leaders, are highly valued and sometimes are more important than other aspects of their lives. According to Grizzle and Tornero, 5 the high exposure of young people to \hate and violent extremist content online both purposefully and accidentally" pushes them toward radical ideas.…”

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Improving Youngsters’ Resilience Through Video Game-Based Interventions

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Torregrosa

Panizo-LLedot

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Vietnam J. Comp. Sci.

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Radicalization, as a violent form of extremism, is a growing problem for Europe. Currently, it is possible to find extreme ideologies regarding almost every topic such as religion, politics or sports. This problem, which ranges from personal identity conflicts to complex societal issues, has an impact on several people everyday, especially on youngsters. To confront this situation, the European Union found several initiatives, as a way to face this problem from a scientific perspective. Some of these initiatives face the problem trying to reduce radicalization by working on personal and social skills through education, in such a way the youngster’s resilience is improved. This paper aims to present YoungRes, a European project whose goal is to improve the resilience of youngsters. To do so, it unifies an already created intervention — named Fortius — through the inclusion of video games in the learning process. This paper describes both: (1) how the Fortius program is modified to allow video games sessions and (2) the software architecture designed to allow students and educators to participate in YoungRes project. Finally, different suggestions to include in future versions of the game are discussed.

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An Initial Study on Radicalization Risk Factors: Towards an Assessment Software Tool

Cited by 8 publications

References 39 publications

Instruments and Tools to Identify Radical Textual Content

Instruments and Tools to Identify Radical Textual Content

YoungRes: A Serious Game-Based Intervention to Increase Youngsters Resilience Against Extremist Ideologies

Improving Youngsters’ Resilience Through Video Game-Based Interventions

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