The challenge of counterterrorism focuses increasingly on prevention. In this effort, nations
are starkly confronted with questions about which people are likely to engage in terrorist …

This paper proposes a Social Influence Model of Violent Extremism (SIM-VE). In the context
of increasing concern regarding the role of the internet in engaging people in violent …

Participation in political violence draws on identities and world views that have been shaped
and influenced by emotion. This article uses data drawn from interviews conducted with 15 …

While the Flemish Peace Institute has exercised the utmost care in the redaction of this
report, it cannot be deemed or held liable for possible mistakes or oversights with regard to …

At the heart of any strategy aiming to prevent terrorism and de-radicalise terrorists is a
judgement about causes: why people come to believe certain ideas, why people act on them …

The emergence and subsequent decline of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
provides new challenges for Western governments facing the return of foreign fighters and …

As a distinct research area with its own theoretical foundations, the sociology of emotions
goes back to the mid-1970s. Its first theoretical controversies gained high visibility in the …

One framework of radicalization, called Significance Quest Theory (SQT), is based on
assumptions that an individual's quest for personal significance is the lead factor in …

The terrorist attack on a member of the Police service by a 15 year old boy in late 2015 sent
shock waves not only through Australia but also throughout the world as the realisation of …

Ranking habitat patches by contribution to network connectivity: tradeoffs between processing
time and spatial realisation Page 1 University of Wollongong Research Online Faculty of …