Combating the Cult of ISIS: A Social Approach to Countering Violent Extremism

Abstract

the review of faith & international affairs | 14 programs (Wagner 2015). These student-led programs create social media and web-based platforms designed to refute and combat ideology-based radicalization. The State Department also coordinates a global engagement campaign called "Think again. Turn away." This campaign, centered around a presence on Twitter, acts as a US-funded "myth-buster," seeking out disparaging evidence that contradicts the lure of ISIS (DOS 2017). These sorts of rhetorically based programs seem to be the backbone of the US response to ISIS. The Obama Administration even created a new office to coordinate Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of State's counter-ideology and counter-narrative campaigns. The Trump administration is doubling down on this joel day and scott kleinmann the review of faith & international affairs | 15

De intergenerationele overdracht van extreme gedachtensystemen

“…Sektarisme kan zodoende net als extremisme als een subcategorie van radicalisme worden beschouwd, gezien de non-conformistische aard van beide type ideologieën. Bovendien kunnen extremistische groeperingen zoals IS volgens sommigen eveneens als 'sekte' worden aangeduid door hun gesloten karakter (zie bijvoorbeeld Day & Kleinmann, 2017;Stein, 2021) -wat de onderlinge verbanden tussen deze ideologieën verder onderstreept. Het is deze gedeelde fundamentele antipathie tegen de heersende maatschappelijke en/of politieke orde die de overdracht van extreme ideologieën als onderzoeksobject onderscheidt van 'reguliere' overdachtsprocessen.…”

Resilience to Violent Extremism and Terrorism

“…This nexus between social capital and resilience nexus is responsive to an understanding of violent extremism itself as a complex, dynamic, multisited ideological, and behavioral matrix in which multilevel and multisystemic influences, networks, capacities, resources, and vulnerabilities converge to enable a distinctive form of violent social and political threat or attack. If the drivers and attractors of violent extremism are bound up with social conditions, protections, dynamics, and adversities, in whatever proportion, then so too must be the solutions that seek to prevent, divert, or rechannel these factors (Day & Kleinmann, 2017). Community resilience paradigms thus offer a socially attractive, policy-, and investmentfriendly way forward in relation to conceptualizing what an integrated multisystemic social and political response might look like, one that draws individuals, communities, governments, and sometimes the private sector together in new collaborative relationships and partnerships.…”

Losing Mood(s): Examining Jihadi Supporters’ Responses to ISIS’ Territorial Decline

“…29 In their study of counter-extremism programs (CVE), Day and Kleimann have similarly shown that exposure to counter-narratives tends to produce a psychological "backfire effect" and pushes individuals toward further radicalization. 30 The more individuals value a particular identity, the more committed they will consequently be to reaffirm it when confronted to perceived threats to their self-concept.…”