The Ties that Bind and Blind: Embeddedness and Radicalisation of Youth in One Islamist Organisation in Pakistan

Ahmad, Akhlaq

doi:10.1080/00220388.2015.1075976

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“…More recent studies have expanded on the findings of these seminal pieces, identifying the explicit behavioural functions of the friendship networks. Ahmad (2016) examined the radicalisation of young male extremists in Pakistan. They noted that it was only after becoming socially embedded within networks inside the organisation (Islami Jamiat Talba) that these individuals underwent a change in personal perceptions, preferences and worldview.…”

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Testing the application of violent extremism risk assessment to individuals who have radicalised in Australia: The case of the VERA-2R

Belton,

Cherney

2024

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Violent extremism risk assessment tools have become an important way of understanding and managing the threat posed by radicalised offenders in custodial and community settings. The aim of this study was to examine the applicability, interrater reliability and predictive validity of the Violent Extremism Risk Assessment—Version 2 Revised (VERA‑2R) against data on individuals who have radicalised in Australia. Two trained assessors—the authors— completed VERA-2R risk assessments for a sample of 50 extremist offenders. Results showed differences in risk profiles between individuals who were violent and non-violent. It was found that the VERA-2R had good interrater reliability but low predictive validity.

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Testing the application of violent extremism risk assessment to individuals who have radicalised in Australia: The case of the VERA-2R

Belton,

Cherney

2024

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“…However, a number of key concepts capturing mediating factors can be discerned and are found in studies of both Islamist and extreme-right radicalisation. Some authors, for example, understand poverty, marginalisation and social exclusion as potentially facilitating the radicalisation process but see other factors, such as social ties, as more signifi cant in radicalisation trajectories (Sageman 2004: 121-30;Ahmad 2014Ahmad , 2016. Hegghammer (2010: 236) also fi nds in-group loyalty to be more important than ideological factors in the recruitment of Saudi jihadists.…”

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Resisting Radicalisation?

Pilkington

2023

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This landmark volume of extensive empirical research conducted across Europe explains how, and why, young people become engaged in radical(ising) milieus but also resist radicalisation into violent extremism. Offering a critical perspective on the concept of radicalisation, this volume views it from the perspective of social actors who engage in radicalising milieus but for the most part have not crossed the threshold into violent extremism. It brings together contributions conducted as part of a cross-European (including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Greece, Russia, Turkey, the UK, and beyond) study of young people's engagement in ‘extreme right’ and ‘Islamist’ milieus. It argues that radicalisation is best understood as a relational concept reflecting a social process rooted in relational inequalities but also shaped by interactional and situational dynamics, which not only facilitate but also constrain radicalisation.

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“…A growing body of research has explored the impact of individual engagement in violent extremist movements, including—but indeed not limited to—empirical studies exploring the evolution of terrorist networks (e.g., Helfstein & Wright, 2011; Ouellet & Bouchard, 2018), trajectories and mechanisms of violent radicalization (e.g., Ahmad, 2016; Corner et al, 2019; Lindekilde et al, 2019), and pathways to desisting from violent extremist movements (e.g., Demant et al, 2008) and terrorist organizations (e.g., Altier et al, 2020; Bjørgo & Horgan, 2009). The emerging evidence shows that levels of engagement in a violent extremist movement have an influence on adherents’ roles.…”

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Differentiating Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists

Scrivens

Wojciechowski

Freilich

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Criminal Justice Policy Review

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There is an ongoing need for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to detect and assess online posting behaviors of violent extremists prior to their engagement in violence offline, but little is empirically known about their online behaviors generally or the differences in their behaviors compared with nonviolent extremists who share similar ideological beliefs particularly. In this study, we drew from a unique sample of violent and nonviolent right-wing extremists to compare their posting behaviors in the largest White supremacy web-forum. We used logistic regression and sensitivity analysis to explore how users’ time of entry into the lifespan of an extremist sub-forum and their cumulative posting activity predicted their violence status. We found a number of significant differences in the posting behaviors of violent and nonviolent extremists which may inform future risk factor frameworks used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to identify credible threats online.

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The Ties that Bind and Blind: Embeddedness and Radicalisation of Youth in One Islamist Organisation in Pakistan

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Testing the application of violent extremism risk assessment to individuals who have radicalised in Australia: The case of the VERA-2R

Testing the application of violent extremism risk assessment to individuals who have radicalised in Australia: The case of the VERA-2R

Resisting Radicalisation?

Differentiating Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists

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