This study aims to investigate the role of Nahdlatul Ulama Higher Education (PTNU) in Purworejo, Central Java, relation counter-extremism and intolerance Indonesia. is a qualitative that focuses on narrative analysis. The data gathered from various documents news articles. analyzed using Ernest Gellner's idea civil society. results show PTNU has significant Indonesia’s religious moderation move...

This study traces the evolution of right-wing extremism, conceptualized as latent electoral support for extreme right-wing parties (i.e., vote intention), in six Western European countries (i.e., Belgium, France, the Netherlands, West Germany, Denmark, and Italy) between 1984 and 1993. Employing a pooled time-series cross-sectional research design, the author examines the relative strength of t...

On July 27, 2017, the Prevention Project convened some 40 representatives from multilateral and national development agencies, Ministries of Foreign Affairs, international NGOs and other relevant development actors for a roundtable discussion hosted at The Brookings Institution. The purpose was to share experiences and lessons learned on integrating preventing violent extremism (PVE)2 into broa...

Social media are used by an increasing number of political actors. A small subset of these is interested in pursuing extremist motives such as mobilization, recruiting or radicalization activities. In order to counteract these trends, online providers and state institutions reinforce their monitoring efforts, mostly relying on manual workflows. We propose a machine learning approach to support ...

This study examines the effect of exposure to communal violence on support for violent religious extremism. We argue that in communities with high levels of violence, individuals normalize aggressive behaviors and come to see non-conventional, black-or-white ideologies as more appealing. Using data from over 7,500 respondents in Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad, we employ multilevel structural equ...

Salafi extremism, embraced by organizations such as the Islamic State, is a global religion-invoking phenomenon whose primary cause not clearly elucidated in literature. Unlike most existing models or explanations of terrorism that attempt to explain stages factors associated with radicalization individuals, this study aims identify dominant causal pathway behind onset extremism. The independen...

today wahhabism is one of the most important radical movement that has been formed and operated in most of the countries of the islamic world. moreover, we witness the influence of this school of thought in this territory and its direct impact on various events like the crisis in chechnya. due to the importance of studying these religious movements in chechnya and their impacts on its crisis, t...