Recruitment
Recruitment
TSAS WP16-14: Talking to Foreign Fighters: Socio-Economic Push versus Existential Pull Factors
The research acquired primary data through interviews with foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, the families and friends of such fighters, and other online supporters of jihadism, to better understand – …
Iraq versus lack of integration: understanding the motivations of contemporary Islamist terrorists in Western countries
Abstract: Despite being nearly 10 years into the ‘Global War on Terror’ there is still confusion as to what motivates the perpetrators of terrorist attacks, particularly those in the West. – …
Sentiment-Based Identification of Radical Authors (SIRA)
Abstract: As violent extremists continue to surface in online discussion forums, counter-extremism agencies search for new and innovative ways of uncovering their digital indicators. Using a sample of approximately 1 – …
Normative support for terrorism: The attitudes and beliefs of immediate relatives of Jema’ah Islamiyah members
Abstract: Families might be an important source of norms that legitimize terrorism, an assumption that has yet to be tested empirically. To investigate this, surveys were administered to 20 immediate – …
A Radical Sociability: In Defense of an Online/Offline Multidimensional Approach to Radicalisation
Implementing Montreal’s Centre for the prevention of radicalization leading to violence: Insights from the 2015 TSAS Summer Academy
TSAS WP15-02: Terrorist Babble and the Limits of the Law: Assessing a Prospective Canadian Terrorism Glorification Offence
Since 2007, the Canadian government has repeatedly expressed interest in a terrorism “glorification” offence, responding to internet materials regarded by officials as terrorist propaganda and as promoting “radicalization”. In the – …
Terrorist Networks as Strategic Repertoires: Functional Differentiation among Al-Shabaab Terror Cells
This article explains variation across the characteristics and structure of Al-Shabaab (AS) networks as a function of strategic repertoires. (Source: Publication).
The Link Between Unemployment and Terrorism
From Rehabilitation to Recruitment: Stopping the Spread of Terrorist Doctrines within our Prisons Before it Becomes a National Security Problem
This paper does not take an alarmist view of the situation within Canada. But it does sound an alarm. We have only just begun incarcerating Canadian terrorists in significant numbers – …
Community and Family Approaches to Combating the Radicalization and Recruitment of Somali-American Youth and Young Adults: A Psychosocial Perspective
Between late 2007 and autumn 2008, an estimated 18 or more Somali-American adolescent boys and young men living in the Minneapolis area secretly left their homes and flew to Somalia – …