Two decision-makers choose hawkish or dovish actions in a conflict game with incomplete information. The decision-making can be manipulated by “extremists” who send publicly observed cheaptalk messages. The power of extremists depends on the nature of the underlying conflict game. If actions are strategic complements, a “hawkish extremist” (provocateur) can increase the likelihood of conflict b...

Two decision-makers choose hawkish or dovish actions in a con‡ict game with incomplete information. The decision-making can be manipulated by “extremists” who send publicly observed cheaptalk messages. The power of extremists depends on the nature of the underlying con‡ict game. If actions are strategic complements, a “hawkish extremist” (provocateur) can increase the likelihood of con‡ict by s...

A growing body of research suggests that an individual’s willingness to fight and die for groups is rooted in the fusion personal group identities, especially when threatened, violence condoned, group’s enemies are dehumanised or demonised. Here we consider whether language used by extremists can help with early detection these risk factors associated violent extremism. We applied a new fusion-...

On September 8, 2022, the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) Vancouver hosted Defence Advisory Network (DSAN) workshop in which Dr. Joana Cook, Senior Project Manager at International Centre Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) Editor-in-Chief of ICCT Journal, presented on Assessing Implications Children Violent Extremist Families. The presentation was followed by a moderate...

1 Elliott School of Communication, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260-0031 2 Department of Communication, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29401 3 College of Journalism and Communication, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 4 School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 5 Mass Communication and Journalism, Fresno State, Fresno, C...

This paper extends the club model of religion to better account for observed patterns of extremism. We adapt existing models to a multi-agent framework and analyze the distribution of agents and clubs. We find that extremism is more successful when religious groups are able to produce close substitutes for standard goods and that increased access to publicly provided goods can reduce the extrem...