Tag: Extremism

Free Download and Medicine National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, "Countering Violent Extremism Through Public Health Practice: Proceedings of a Workshop"
English | ISBN: 0309453658 | 2017 | 146 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Countering violent extremism consists of various prevention and intervention approaches to increase the resilience of communities and individuals to radicalization toward violent extremism, to provide nonviolent avenues for expressing grievances, and to educate communities about the threat of recruitment and radicalization to violence. To explore the application of health approaches in community-level strategies to countering violent extremism and radicalization, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public workshop in September 2016. Participants explored the evolving threat of violent extremism and radicalization within communities across America, traditional versus health-centered approaches to countering violent extremism and radicalization, and opportunities for cross-sector and interdisciplinary collaboration and learning among domestic and international stakeholders and organizations. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Free Download Samuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman, Thomas L. Brunell (Author, Narrator), "How Polarization Begets Polarization: Ideological Extremism in the US Congress"
English | ASIN: B0CSWSTPBH | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~06:09:00 | 180 MB
Extreme polarization in American politics is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members and district candidates and endorsed by the voters in each Congressional district who must choose between the alternatives offered. Tight national party discipline produces party delegations in Congress that are widely separated from one another but each ideologically narrowly distributed.
As district constituencies become more polarized and are egged on by activists, parties are further motivated to appeal to their respective bases rather than to voters in the ideological center. America has indeed acquired parties with clear platforms-once thought to be a desirable goal-but these parties are now feuding camps. What resolution might there be? Just as the progressive movement slowly replaced the Gilded Age, might a new reform effort replace the current squabble? Or could an asymmetry develop in the partisan constraints that would lead to ascendancy of the center, or might a new and over-riding issue generate a cross-cutting dimension, opening the door to a new politics? Only the future will tell.

Free Download Samuel Merrill III, Bernard Grofman, Thomas L. Brunell (Author, Narrator), "How Polarization Begets Polarization: Ideological Extremism in the US Congress"
English | ASIN: B0CSWSTPBH | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~06:09:00 | 180 MB
Extreme polarization in American politics is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members and district candidates and endorsed by the voters in each Congressional district who must choose between the alternatives offered. Tight national party discipline produces party delegations in Congress that are widely separated from one another but each ideologically narrowly distributed.
As district constituencies become more polarized and are egged on by activists, parties are further motivated to appeal to their respective bases rather than to voters in the ideological center. America has indeed acquired parties with clear platforms-once thought to be a desirable goal-but these parties are now feuding camps. What resolution might there be? Just as the progressive movement slowly replaced the Gilded Age, might a new reform effort replace the current squabble? Or could an asymmetry develop in the partisan constraints that would lead to ascendancy of the center, or might a new and over-riding issue generate a cross-cutting dimension, opening the door to a new politics? Only the future will tell.

Free Download Samuel Merrill III, "How Polarization Begets Polarization: Ideological Extremism in the US Congress"
English | ISBN: 0197745237 | 2023 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 8 MB

Free Download Gaming and Extremism: The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032482990 | 235 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
Editors Linda Schlegel and Rachel Kowert bring together a range of insights from world-leading experts in the field to provide the first comprehensive overview of gaming and extremism. The potential nexus between gaming and extremism has become a key area of concern for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to prevent and counter radicalization and this book explores key trends and debates, future directions, and potential prevention efforts. This includes the exploration of how games and game adjacent spaces, such as Discord, Twitch, Steam, and DLive, are being leveraged by extremists for the purposes of radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization. Additionally, the book presents the latest counter-terrorism techniques and promising preventing / countering violent extremism (P/CVE) measures currently being utilized in the gaming sphere and explores the ongoing challenges, controversies, and current gaps in knowledge in the field.

Free Download Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism From Al-Qaeda to the Far Right (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare) by John Horgan
English | December 26th, 2023 | ISBN: 0231198396 | 248 pages | True EPUB | 1.36 MB
What makes a person want to become a terrorist? Who becomes involved in terrorism, and why? In what ways does participating in violent extremism change someone? And how can people become deradicalized?

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 0231198396 | 244 pages | True PDF | 6.7 MB

Free Download The Palgrave Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism, Volume 2
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031362675 | 667 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 6 MB
This handbook provides a broad overview of left-wing extremism and its associated key issues and themes. It breaks new ground by assembling a comparative analysis of the phenomenon that is both multidimensional and multidisciplinary. Gathering a wide range of influential scholars who have worked at length in the field of extremism studies from different perspectives, backgrounds, and geographical settings, the Palgrave Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism presents an array of thought-provoking and innovative as well as informative analyses and discussions – both historical and contemporary – about the phenomenon of left-wing extremism and of how researchers conceive of and approach it in their study. The Handbook is designed to be, for the foreseeable future, the reference work for all students, researchers, and general readers interested in achieving a comprehensive understanding of left-wing extremism in all its manifestations, subtleties, and dynamics, and both its current and its potential directions.

Free Download Richard McNeil-Willson, "Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience "
English | ISBN: 1032211695 | 2023 | 312 pages | PDF | 32 MB
At a time of great global uncertainty and instability, communities face fracturing from the increasing influence of extremist movements hostile to democratic and multicultural norms. Europe and the West have grown increasingly polarised in recent years, beset with financial crises, political instability, the rise of malicious actors and irregular violence, and new forms of media and social media. These factors have enabled the spread of new forms of extremism and suggest a growing need for a response sensitive to inequalities and divisions in wider society – a task made even more urgent by the COVID- 19 pandemic.

Free Download Paul Thomas, "Responding to the Threat of Violent Extremism: Failing to Prevent"
English | ISBN: 1849665257 | 2012 | 192 pages | EPUB | 370 KB
How should we understand home-grown terrorism like the 7/7 London bombings? This is a classic monograph focusing on recent British attempts to ‘prevent violent extremism’, their problems and limitations, and what lessons this can offer for more effective policy approaches in future. Paul Thomas’s extensive research suggests that the Prevent policy approaches, and the wider CONTEST counter-terrorism strategy, have been misguided and ineffective, further alienating British Muslim communities instead of supporting longer-term integration. He argues that new, cohesion-based approaches encouraging greater trust and integration across all communities represent the best defence against terrorism.