Radicalization

The speaker of this lecture was Pete Simi who is the director of Radicalization and Violent Groups. Simi began his lecture by introducing the federal intervention, where individuals who were compelled to stop desegregation and race mixing in the United States. Then, he recalls a moment where he watched a Klutz Klux Klan documentary as a kid with his mother. Moreover, he was disgusted that people could have such anger and hatred in their heart. Simi informs the audience about an experience he had…

The radicalization of Islam is not as broad as mainstream media would like its viewers to believe. Society surrounds a religion and culture that they do not understand with assumptions based off a small nugget of knowledge they think is accurate from organizations who have proven to be biased like Fox News and MSNBC. Middle Eastern countries where Islam is practiced by the majority of the population show up on a worldwide scale almost daily. Americans are more afraid than they are accepting of…

In the book The Psychology of Radicalization and Terrorism, the writers claim that economic deprivation is often referred to when discussing radicalisation. In a new approach, Koomen and van der Pligt (2016) agrees that economic deprivation acts as a threat to terrorists and their groups. Economic deprivation means being confined to limited social and economic opportunities such as poor healthcare; an insecure future; poor educational opportunities; etc. Koomen and van der Plight (2016) adds…

Homeland Security Issues Haritha Vadlamudi Wilmington University Countering Terrorist Radicalization legislation The consequences of the Orlando terrorist attack affected the individuals from House of Representatives to act rapidly to make aware of performing with fortifying the nation's counter radicalization work in the increasingly unsafe environment. Countering Terrorist Radicalization Act is constructed primarily on the the work of bipartisan team launched on March 2015.…

Essay 1 Please discuss in detail the difference between concepts of disengagement and de-radicalization. How are they related to one another? Why is it difficult to de-radicalize a committed The Islamist page 29? The difference between de-radicalization and disengagement is that de-radicalization is the process of which individuals or groups abandon their extremist ideologies while, disengagement is the process of changing an individual or groups behavior through refraining from violence and…

RADICALISATION IN MODERN SOCIETY Communities demonstrate a very significant part to radicalization in the contemporary societies. A society which compels citizens to actively engage in volunteer services in order to fulfill their civil responsibilities. However, in the urgency to respond to such expectations, sometimes intentionally or unintentionally terrorism and radicalization take the lime light. A very little empirical study has been critically evaluated to understand the reflection of…

Although it overlaps with Sageman’s arguments, Wiktorowicz’s approach to radicalization is relatively more complex; among other things, he introduces the ‘cognitive opening’ theory, a crisis “that shakes certainty in previously accepted beliefs and renders an individual more receptive to the possibility of alternative views and perspectives.” The crisis can instigate a cognitive opening. This can take a variety of forms, depending on the individual, but when related to Islamic movements, the…

terrorist radicalization and online recruitment. Cyber involves computer or computer network as the internet. The lame definition of cyber or the cyberspace, it refers to the internet. Today the society is embracing the advancement of technology and the internet (Ines, et al., 2013). The devices created today such portable computer, laptops, mobile phones, kindles e.t.c they easily gain access to the internet. It is so unfortunate the internet has become a tool for terrorist radicalization and…

of homegrown terrorism rises, the need to understand the radicalization process of each specific terrorist is imminent to the process to prevent future terrorist attacks. Various individuals who take part in supporting or acting with terrorist organizations, tend to have been educated and raised from the West. As the Mohammad Momin Khawaja case suggests, it was unlike many others whom followed the radicalization process: pre-radicalization, self-identification, indoctrination and jihadization)1.…

To the disbelieve of fighters of radicalization, the Indians of All Tribes pronounced categorically that the Island suits the Indian Reservation as required by the white man `s standards. The many points that they gave out such as isolation of the Island from modern amenities, lack of fresh water, poor health facilities and no educational facilities were meant to rise the gap between the white and the Indians. This was aimed to orchestrate the radicalization level between the white and the…