Containing the Narrative: Strategy and Tactics in Countering the Storyline of Global Jihad

Leuprecht, Christian; Hataley, Todd; Moskalenko, Sophia; McCauley, Clark

doi:10.1080/18335300.2010.9686940

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“…To be more effective then, U.K. officials would need to tailor their counter-narrative to the audience in question, adopting more of the characteristics of Muslim counter-extremist messages (cf. Leuprecht, Hataley, Moskalenko, & McCauley, 2010).…”

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Differentiating Act from Ideology: Evidence from Messages For and Against Violent Extremism

Prentice

Taylor

Rayson

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Negotiation Conflict Man Res

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Although researchers know a great deal about persuasive messages that encourage terrorism, they know far less about persuasive messages that denounce terrorism and little about how these two sides come together. We propose a conceptualization that distinguishes a message’s support for an act from its support for the ideology underlying an act. Our prediction is tested using corpus‐linguistic analysis of 250 counter‐extremist messages written by Muslims and U.K. officials and a comparison set of 250 Muslim extremist messages. Consistent with our prediction, Muslim extremist and Muslim counter‐messages show disagreement on terrorist actions but agreement in ideological aspects, while U.K. officials’ counter‐messages show disagreement with both Muslim extremists’ acts and ideology. Our findings suggest that counter‐messages should not be viewed as a homogenous group and that being against violent extremism does not necessarily equate to having positive perceptions of Western values.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Differentiating Act from Ideology: Evidence from Messages For and Against Violent Extremism

Prentice

Taylor

Rayson

et al. 2012

Negotiation Conflict Man Res

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“…Even if we assume that U.K. security has missed one terrorist for every one apprehended, these data indicate that, of every hundred U.K. Muslims condoning suicide attacks, at most two are actively involved in terrorism. The great majority of those condoning attacks are doing nothing (see Leuprecht, Hataley, Moskalenko, & McCauley, , for more about the distinction between opinion and action).…”

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Testing Theories of Radicalization in Polls of U.S. Muslims

McCauley

2011

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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Four national polls of Muslim Americans conducted between 2001 and 2007 were reviewed to find items tapping possible sources of sympathy and justification for jihadist violence: anti-Muslim discrimination, radical Islam, and economic and political grievance. These items were correlated with items representing three elements of the global-jihad frame: seeing the war on terrorism as a war on Islam or "insincere," justifying suicide attacks in defense of Islam, and favorable views of Al Qaeda. The three elements of the global-jihad frame were no more than weakly related to one another and had different predictors. Discussion suggests that the U.S. "war of ideas" may need to target separately the different elements of the global-jihad frame.Attempts to understand terrorism usually begin with the terrorists, and a sizeable literature has explored whether or how terrorists emerge from conditions of poverty, alienation, extremist ideology, and political grievance (Blair

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“…Knowledge of these chains might be useful for understanding the gap between radical beliefs and radical action. Leuprecht, Hataley, Moskalenko, and McCauley (2010), for example, examine narratives of jihad which hold that the ''war on terrorism'' is a war on Islam, that al-Qaeda is the vanguard of Islamic resistance to Western domination, and that the means used by al-Qaeda and its supporters are justified in defense of . As the authors note, polling data suggest that substantial numbers of Muslims accept this narrative, but those who agree that there is a war on Islam and that violent responses are justified in defense of Islam are far from taking action.…”

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Belief systems and action inferences as a source of violence in the name of Islam

Dornschneider

2010

Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict

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I draw on the belief system literature and use a cognitive mapping methodology to compare Islamists from the nonviolent Muslim Brotherhood and from the formerly violent groups al-Jihad and al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya in Egypt. Using data from in-depth interviews conducted in Egypt, I identify seven combinations of beliefs antecedent to decisions for and against violence and make three main claims. First, decisions for or against violence towards the state are only made if an individual believes that the state is violent. Second, decisions against violence are logically preceded by beliefs about the superiority of state structures to the chaos of violence, the negative consequences of revenge, the potential success of peaceful action, and the impossibility of reaching goals through violence. Third, decisions in favor of violence are logically preceded by beliefs about transformatory goals, support for violence in the local environment, and ignorance of the state's reaction to violent resistance. I conclude with brief suggestions of how the kinds of belief-chains identified may be useful for understanding and responding to narratives supporting violence in the name of Islam.

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Containing the Narrative: Strategy and Tactics in Countering the Storyline of Global Jihad

Cited by 49 publications

References 15 publications

Differentiating Act from Ideology: Evidence from Messages For and Against Violent Extremism

Differentiating Act from Ideology: Evidence from Messages For and Against Violent Extremism

Testing Theories of Radicalization in Polls of U.S. Muslims

Belief systems and action inferences as a source of violence in the name of Islam

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