Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism
In recent years the Salafi-Jihadist movement has used the internet to help make the Salafi-Jihadist ideology more accessible to potential English and non-English speaking supporters seeking such...
View ArticleIslamic Radicalization in Europe and North America: Parallels and Divergence
The project created highly detailed case studies of the radicalization processes of 16 extremists in North America and Europe, in order to identify factors that drive individuals and small groups...
View ArticleInternational Survey Capability
In order to better understand the motivations of terrorists as well as the basis for support for terrorist groups around the world, START collected an array of international survey research data from...
View ArticleIdeologies and Motivations of Terrorist Organizations
Project will involve an effort led by Gary Ackerman (University of Maryland) and Assaf Moghadam (International Institute for Counterterrorism, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) to systematically...
View ArticleHomegrown Radicalization and the Role of Social Networks and Social...
This project involves a telephone survey of a sample of approximately 1,000 Americans, using a survey instrument followed by an online panel survey.
View ArticleHizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami: The Challenge of a Non-Violent Radical Islam
Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami has received less international scrutiny than other fundamentalist Islamic groups because it has advocated a non-violent approach toward its goals. In theory, the group rejects...
View ArticleFraming Global Salafi-Jihadist Messages in the West
This project will address the phenomenon of English-speaking jihadist ideologues and examine the ways in which such figures tailor their messages in sermons, pamphlets, tracts, and speeches (usually...
View ArticleFamily and Community Capacities among US Minorities: a Key to Preventing...
Stevan Weine will conduct ethnographic research in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.— U.S. cities with significant Muslim Diasporas—to examine if and how community policing programs might...
View ArticleExtremist Pathways to Power: The Rise of Extremist Ideologies to State Dogma
In order to provide insights into the future political development trajectories in South Asia, this project explored mechanisms by which violent and nonviolent groups and organizations accept and...
View ArticleEuropean Converts to Islam: An Evolving Threat?
Using newspaper reports and interviews with scholars, security experts, mullahs and imams, journalists, diplomats, government officials, and converts, this project assessed the phenomenon of Muslim...
View ArticleEffects of Uncertainty on Support for Religious Extremism
The need for cognitive closure is a function of an individual's desire for predictability, preference for order and structure, discomfort with ambiguity, decisiveness, and level of close-mindedness....
View ArticleDecision Making and Simulation
Using experimental research methods, this project explored factors that influence the likelihood that an individual would be willing to use, or justify the use of, terrorism and whether he/she could be...
View ArticleCountering Jihadist Ideology among Detainees: The Effects and Effectiveness...
Through existing relationships with leaders of the Religious Rehabilitation Group (RRG), this research team had the opportunity to collect unique data from detainees who had been involved with Jemmah...
View ArticleCell Groups and Individual Radicalization in Indonesia, United Kingdom, and...
This project is a follow-up to previous START-supported work by McLeod. See The Role of the Media in the Recruitment of Terrorists: Mass Communication and the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of...
View ArticleBuilding Resilience to Violent Extremism Among Somali-Americans in...
The project (formally Violent Radicalization and Terrorist Recruitment in Somali-Americans) seeks to address the problem of violent radicalization and terrorist recruitment amongst members of a...
View ArticleEmpirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR)
The Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR) project uses a mixed-method, nested approach to explore a number of key research questions related to radicalization, including:
View ArticleEmpirical Assessment of Domestic Disengagement and Deradicalization (EAD3)
Building on the evaluation of individual radicalization processes begun in START’s current NIJ-funded Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization (EADR) project, the START research team will employ...
View ArticleA Pathway Approach to the Study of Bias Crime Offenders
While research on bias crime has grown considerably since the passing of the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990, comparatively little has been written about the criminal trajectories and pathways of...
View ArticleA Multi-Level Approach to the Study of Violent Extremism
Research on political extremism in the United States has thus far been unsuccessful in establishing an understanding of the risks and vulnerabilities associated with violent behavior. The challenges...
View ArticleA Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs
Speculation on the similarities between violent extremist groups and criminal gangs has grown in recent years. There are obvious parallels. Both groups involve illegal activities, especially violence,...
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