Education, indoctrination, and incitement: Palestinian children on their way to martyrdom

Studying Ideological Groups Online: Identification and Assessment of Risk Factors for Violence

“…This ideology then acts to promote certain psychological processes of group members that are thought to be contributors to a group's susceptibility to violence (Mumford et al., 2008). These include social categorization practices that emphasize ethnic out‐grouping (Burdman, 2003; Glaser et al., 2002; Hewstone et al., 2002; Mumford et al., 2008; Post, Ruby, & Shaw, 2002), dehumanization of out‐group members (Kent, 2005; Moghaddam, 2005; Stahelski, 2005), and fostering a sense of ideological and moral righteousness through group feelings of superiority (Mumford et al., 2008).…”

Violence in Ideological and Non‐Ideological Groups: A Quantitative Analysis of Qualitative Data1

“…For example, ideological groups often establish strong group boundaries whereby entry into the group requires some degree of self‐sacrifice and overt acceptance of certain symbolic commitments (Byman, 1998; Gerstenfeld, Grant, & Chiang, 2003; Gordijn, Wigboldus, & Yzerbyt, 2001): strategies intended to encourage adoption and internalization of the ideology. Once people have joined the group, social learning and peer role modeling serve to reinforce and elaborate the ideology being advocated (Burdman, 2003; Crenshaw, 1988; Lee & Leets, 2002; Tindale & Kameda, 2000). This social learning will often be associated with affective framing of select events that articulate the “rightness” of the ideology (Wood, 2000) and the need for urgent action (Spoor & Kelly, 2004), with these affective framing actions serving to create the commitments that lead the group to become a salient aspect of members' identity (Monroe, Hankin, & Van Vechten, 2000).…”

“…However, if sense breaking is framed in terms of opposition to other existing groups—groups that are viewed as exploitive—then the potential for dehumanization and violence will increase. As a result, violent ideological groups and organizations often are characterized by the use of propaganda, extensive indoctrination, and the articulation of new cultural symbols (Burdman, 2003; Harré, 2004; Pitcavage, 2001).…”

Constructing Impossibility: Israeli State Discourses about Palestinian Child Labour

“…In the ongoing realities of conflict and occupation, the CotJ are not the only vulnerable group of Palestinian children placed in a heightened state of danger and exposure to violence and other risks (Baker and Shalhoub‐Kevorkian, ; Barber, ; Burdman, ; Khamis, ; Shalhoub‐Kevorkian, ; Veronese and others, ). Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza have both come under international scrutiny for their violations of children's rights, such as the many children killed by Israel in its attacks on Gaza in 2014 (Ravid, ).…”