Archive for 'Recruitment'
Review: “De-Legitimizing al-Qaeda”
by Jeffry R. Halverson The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) has released a short monograph, De-Legitimizing al-Qaeda: A Jihad-Realist Approach, by sociologist Paul Kamolnick, a professor at Eastern Tennessee State University. Kamolnick criticizes current US efforts to counter al-Qaeda’s messaging and recruitment strategies as ineffective, and proposes an alternative two-fold solution to marginalize and defeat al-Qaeda. [...]
Posted: May 17th, 2012 under Analysis, bin Laden, Complexity, Counterterrorism, Islam, Military, Narrative, Politics, Publications, Recruitment, Religion, Sharia.
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Cooking the Books
by Steven R. Corman The CSC has an article in the current issue of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism on casualty inflation by the Taliban in the Afghanistan conflict. The abstract follows, and the full text is available here (subscription). Cooking the Books: Strategic Inflation of Casualty Reports by Extremists in the Afghanistan Conflict Chris [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2012 under Afghanistan, Framing, Publications, Recruitment, Strategic Comm..
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Youths in Violent Extremist Discourse
by Steven R. Corman CSC researchers Pauline Cheong and Jeff Halverson have just published a paper in the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism that will be of interest to readers of this blog. The paper examines al Qaeda texts from 1996-2009 to determine strategies used by the group to construct a pro-radical identity for [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2011 under Identification, Recruitment, Religion, Research, Strategic Comm..
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Swiss Minarets, Armenian Genocide and Academic Islamophobia
by Jeffry Halverson This morning I was forwarded an Op-Ed from the Chronicle of Higher Education written by Carlin Romano, a journalist and scholar of media theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Entitled “Of Minarets and Massacres,” the Op-Ed came across as an opportunistic diatribe against what Romano sees as the egregious hypocrisy of Muslims [...]
Posted: December 9th, 2009 under Analysis, Islam, Polarization, Recruitment.
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Culture Shock and Terrorist Recruitment
by Miriam Sobre-Denton As an American who has traveled overseas throughout my life, as well as a teacher of intercultural communication, I often wonder how it is that we don’t relate travel experiences and study abroad to the potential for loneliness and identity questions—and to the potential for association with radical groups. I remember traveling [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2008 under Counterterrorism, Recruitment, Sensemaking.
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