Age-structured social interactions enhance radicalization

Chuang, Yao-Li; Chou, Tom; D’Orsogna, Maria R.

doi:10.1080/0022250x.2018.1448975

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“…We controlled for respondent’s age with the rationale that ageing affects the probability of having radical ideas in a negative way. It is observed, in several studies, that the youth, in general, are more likely to show radical attitudes, relative to the older people (Bizina and Gray ; Chuang, Chou and D’Orsogna ; Doosje, Loseman and Van Den Bos ). In our database, age is measured by an ordinal variable with five categories of seven years intervals, ranging from 18 to 65, and a category for 65 years old and above.…”

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Perception of Western governments’ hostility to Islam among European Muslims before and after ISIS: the important roles of residential segregation and education

Hekmatpour

Burns

2019

British Journal of Sociology

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Perception of Western governments’ hostility to Islam is one of the indicating features of Islamic fundamentalism and, in some cases, is serving as a pull to join extremist groups. In this paper, using data from two waves of a cross‐national survey, we investigate what affects European Muslims’ opinions about Western governments. We find that residential segregation is associated with perceived hostility of Western governments to Islam. Further, we find that Muslims living in segregated neighbourhoods and enclaves have a higher probability of believing that Western governments are hostile to Islam. National origins of Muslim immigrants have a significant impact, with people from African countries measuring less perceived hostility than others. We also find that education is associated with perceived hostility of Western governments to Islam in a non‐linear way. People with the highest and lowest levels of education tend to be less likely to believe that Western governments are hostile to Islam, relative to people with mid‐level education. This non‐linear effect is best explained by education’s differential effects on perceptions of key world events. During the time between 2011 – before ISIS’s announcement of its Caliphate in Iraq and Syria – and 2013, subsequent to that announcement, we see a sharp decrease in perception of Western governments’ hostility to Islam, particularly among more educated European Muslims. We make the case that this decrease can be attributed, in some ways, to the emergence of ISIS. We discuss our findings in terms of theoretical and policy implications.

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Perception of Western governments’ hostility to Islam among European Muslims before and after ISIS: the important roles of residential segregation and education

Hekmatpour

Burns

2019

British Journal of Sociology

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“…Dolfin et al [9] also offers some useful hints by showing how the dynamics in a network enhances consensus. This structure can also be used to study the interaction between welfare dynamics and migration phenomena [1,33], aiming at better understanding the driving phenomena behind immigration, ways to curb, monitor and detect incoming flows and ways to help better adapt immigrants integrate into host societies.…”

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Parameter Estimation and Measurement of Social Inequality in a Kinetic Model for Wealth Distribution

2020

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This paper deals with the modeling of wealth distribution considering a society with non-constant population and non-conservative wealth trades. The modeling approach is based on the kinetic theory of active particles, where individuals are distinguished by a scalar variable (the activity) which expresses their social state. A qualitative analysis of the model focusing on asymptotic behaviors and measurement of inequality through the Gini coefficient is presented. Finally, some specific case-studies are proposed in order to carry out numerical experiments to validate our model, characterize societies and investigate emerging behaviors.

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“…As described in the introduction, radicalization is highly age-dependent, and age stratified models may help better understand the establishment and evolution of radical groups over time. A compartment model of increasingly fanatic stages coupled to age-differentiated interactions was introduced in [143]. For simplicity, only three cohorts are considered in this work: non-radical i = 0, activist i = 1 and radicals i = 2 described by the densities ρ i (t, a) of age a at time t for i = {0, 1, 2}.…”

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Mathematical Models of Radicalization and Terrorism

Chuang,

D'Orsogna

2019

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The rapid spread of radical ideologies has led to a world-wide succession of terrorist attacks in recent years. Understanding how extremist tendencies germinate, develop, and drive individuals to action is important from a cultural standpoint, but also to help formulate response and prevention strategies. Demographic studies, interviews with radicalized subjects, analysis of terrorist databases, reveal that the path to radicalization occurs along progressive steps, where age, social context and peer-to-peer exchanges play major roles. To execute terrorist attacks, radicals must efficiently communicate with one another while maintaining secrecy; they are also subject to pressure from counter-terrorism agencies, public opinion and the need for material resources. Similarly, government entities must gauge which intervention methods are most effective. While a complete understanding of the processes that lead to extremism and violence, and of which deterrents are optimal, is still lacking, mathematical modelers have contributed to the discourse by using tools from statistical mechanics and applied mathematics to describe existing and novel paradigms, and to propose novel counter-terrorism strategies. We review some of their approaches in this work, including compartment models for populations of increasingly extreme views, continuous time models for age-structured radical populations, radicalization as social contagion processes on lattices and social networks, agent based models, game theoretic formulations. We highlight the useful insights offered by analyzing radicalization and terrorism through quantitative frameworks. Finally, we discuss the role of institutional intervention and the stages at which deradicalization strategies might be most effective.

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Age-structured social interactions enhance radicalization

Cited by 14 publications

References 53 publications

Perception of Western governments’ hostility to Islam among European Muslims before and after ISIS: the important roles of residential segregation and education

Perception of Western governments’ hostility to Islam among European Muslims before and after ISIS: the important roles of residential segregation and education

Parameter Estimation and Measurement of Social Inequality in a Kinetic Model for Wealth Distribution

Mathematical Models of Radicalization and Terrorism

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