Tackline social ills will do more than bombs to defeat ISIS – by Scott Atran
Scott Atran. (28 July 2016). Tackling social ills will do more than bombs to defeat ISIS and its gospel of hate. The Guardian.
Jeremy Ginges is an Associate Professor of Psychology and director of the Laboratory of Social and Political Psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Prior to his current position he was on faculty in the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan (2003-2006) and held a field research fellowship at the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania (2001-2002). His work explores is the role moral reasoning plays in binding people together to form meaningful social groups and the way moral reasoning, particularly over sacred values, influences the trajectory of cultural, political and violent conflicts. Jeremy received his PhD in Psychology from Tel Aviv University and obtained a MA (Psychology) and BA (Psychology and History) from Macquarie University in Australia.
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Scott Atran. (28 July 2016). Tackling social ills will do more than bombs to defeat ISIS and its gospel of hate. The Guardian.
Scott Atran. 16 July 16. ISIS: The Durability of Chaos. The New York Review of Books.
Bruce Bower. 23 June 2016. New studies explore why ordinary people turn terrorist. ScienceNews.
Geraldine Doogue interviews Artis Fellow Nafees Hamid to understand how extremists are likely to be radicalised.
Doogue, Geraldine. 17 June 2016. The social network: predicting extremism. Saturday Extra. Australian National Radio.
Voice of a Frontline Researcher & Anthropologist – Scott Atran. May 13, 2016. On Violent Extremism. CSIS Podcast.
For this session, Shannon N. Green sits down with anthropologist and frontline researcher Scott Atran. During the conversation, Scott shares his unique insight into what binds extremists together, the appeal of extremism, and what it will take to effectively counter violent extremist organizations.
L’anthropologue estime qu’il faut comprendre les terroristes pour les combattre. TV5 Monde (“Scott Atran” interview with P. Simonin, 29 April 2016).
An unorthodox anthropologist goes face to face with ISIS. Is the payoff worth the peril?
Bartlett, T. The Road to ISIS. (20 May 2016). The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Les ministres se sont bousculés au premier Colloque international sur la prévention de la radicalisation. L’occasion de sortir des idées reçues.
Colloque : les Oscars de la déradicalisation. 29 April 2016. Le Point.
The EU Is Now Criminalizing Refugees. April 20, 2016. The Nation. Lydia Wilson.