Risk of Violent Extremism: Belief Systems and Narratives

National Institute of Justice

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- National Institute of Justice (July 28-30, 2015). Radicalization and Violent Extremism: Lessons Learned From Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. National Institute of Justice, p. 16-21.

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Multi-Ideology, Multiclass Online Extremism Dataset, and
Its Evaluation Using Machine Learning

Gaikwad, M., Ahirrao, S., Phansalkar, S., Kotecha, K., & Rani, S. (2023). Multi-Ideology, Multiclass Online Extremism Dataset, and Its Evaluation Using Machine Learning. Computational intelligence and neuroscience, 2023, 4563145. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/4563145

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article References:
Cunningham, M. D. (2018). Differentiating delusional disorder from the radicalization of extreme beliefs: A 17-factor model. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 5(3), 137–154.

Jasko, K., Webber, D., Kruglanski, A. W., Gelfand, M., Taufiqurrohman, M., Hettiarachchi, M., & Gunaratna, R. (2020). Social context moderates the effects of quest for significance on violent extremism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(6), 1165–1187.

Webber, D., Babush, M., Schori-Eyal, N., Vazeou-Nieuwenhuis, A., Hettiarachchi, M., Bélanger, J. J., Moyano, M., Trujillo, H. M., Gunaratna, R., Kruglanski, A. W., & Gelfand, M. J. (2018). The road to extremism: Field and experimental evidence that significance loss-induced need for closure fosters radicalization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(2), 270–285.

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