Examining data from the World Value Survey about left-right political orientation, paper explores extremism among common people worldwide. Our analysis reveals (i) a positive correlation between left-wing and right-wing across countries, (ii) an average rise in globally last decade, (iii) greater less developed (iv) surge, during for countries where development has not met expectations. Besides...

This presentation summarizes a register-based study on women who have been identified as belonging to three violent extremist milieus in Sweden: Islamic, far-right, and far-left extremism. We studied the these along number of analytical dimensions, ranging from demographic educational criminal background network relationships, compared them reference groups: (i) non-extremist biological sisters...

In this paper, we study the effects of introducing contrarians in a model of Opinion Dynamics where the agents have internal continuous opinions, but exchange information only about a binary choice that is a function of their continuous opinion, the CODA model. We observe that the hung election scenario still exists here, but it is weaker and it shouldn’t be expected in every election. Finally,...

Over the last few years, there has been a growing interest in role of women prevention violent extremism and within extremist networks. Yet research scholarship this area remains limited deeper engagement with gender norms around masculinities femininities is needed. This special issue includes selection both timely relevant articles by academics practitioners, mostly from Global South, focusin...

Many human tragedies arise from religious extremism. This paper seeks to explain and provide an argument that the root of problem extremism lies in failure recognize essence religion its equality with humanity itself. In context Islam, through hermeneutics Mulla Shadra this attempts Qur'an, man nature are three aspects a single existential reality. introduction brought all peak their sacred per...

This article explicates the notion of doubt and relationship to belief conviction. It distinguishes three types political virtue—leadership, systemic, corrective—and considers whether is a virtue in any these senses. argued that while not leadership virtue, it systemic corrective virtue. Specifically, potentially an antidote methods, ideological, psychological extremism. A distinction drawn bet...