This research brief reviews the literature on deradicalization and evaluates the methodology of deradicalization programs, based on the research identifying individual motivations for entering and exiting terrorist organizations, providing comparison with relevant findings in the literatures on " deprogramming " of cult members and " deganging. " Since 2002, " deradicalization " programs, which...

BACKGROUND Between roughly 500 BCE and 300 BCE, three distinct regions, the Yangtze and Yellow River Valleys, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ganges Valley, saw the emergence of highly similar religious traditions with an unprecedented emphasis on self-discipline and asceticism and with "otherworldly," often moralizing, doctrines, including Buddhism, Jainism, Brahmanism, Daoism, Second Templ...

requires broad but locally oriented research agendas backed by a vibrant civil society that promotes evidence based health and shields scientific inquiry from dominant social and political doctrines. More research is also needed in “taboo” areas associated with major health problems—for example, domestic violence, mental health, and the health of special groups (such as Palestinian refugees and...

am engaged almost in a work of supererogation when I presume to speak upon a topic so familiar to you all. Despite this feeling on my part, I am led to believe that upon occasion an oft-told tale, if palatably redressed, may prove appetizing enough: I will venture an experiment. A careful perusal of the pages of the history of medicine plainly demonstrates the long and tortuous path pursued fro...

Philosophers today are deeply divided by issues of a kind that can be described as "metaepistemological" -issues concerning the concepts and methodology appropriate for a philosophical investigation of human knowledge. In thinking about some of these controversial issues it seems to me helpful to draw a distinction between two kinds of epistemic merit intrinsic and instrumental. There are many ...

The consumption of animal flesh food in Ethiopia has associated with cultural practices. Meat plays pivotal and vital parts in special occasions and its cultural symbolic weight is markedly greater than that accorded to most other food. Processing and cooking of poultry is a gender based duty and has socio-cultural roles. Ethiopians are dependent on limited types of animals for meats due to the...

Indian mythology and the Vedic image of world built on its basis are exceptional importance for understanding entire Eastern culture. The mythological complex representations is most ancient (researchers attribute formation to III millennium BC) surprisingly persistent. combines features proper religion philosophy; it becomes initial model later religious philosophical doctrines. Recall that wa...

The article makes predictions about dataism, noting disagreements over the definition, highlighting tendency to perceive it as a problematic threat humanity. Dataism is considered in terms of spe-cific religious traits, construction faith and trust algorithms, formation groups specialists accumulation symbolic power. Pierre Bourdieu's sociology religion theoretical frame-work used study worldvi...