Recent cases of terrorist violence by jihadist, far right, and male supremacist actors share a common, yet underexplored feature – the aim to impose extreme patriarchal political social orders which are anti-feminist even misogynistic. This exploratory article draws on several across these three groups highlight two findings. First, we demonstrate that narratives increasingly utilized in justif...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Terrorist Group processes Case study Involvement vs. events This paper offers a critical review of the role of group processes in terrorist behavior. It draws on a fundamental distinction between terrorist 'involvement' and terrorist 'events' to explore what group phenomena might contribute to our understanding of actual terrorist behavior, as opposed to the cont...

In this paper, we present algorithms for subgroup detection and demonstrated them with a real-time case study of USS Cole bombing terrorist network. The algorithms are demonstrated in an application by a prototype system. The system finds associations between terrorist and terrorist organisations and is capable of determining links between terrorism plots occurred in the past, their affiliation...

This article pushes for a postcolonial, feminist critique of “anti-terrorist” securitization, that makes space transformative peace-building. The post-9/11 securitization the African continent builds on long legacy colonial conquest and racist Othering. Somalia is regularly centered here, portrayed in media state narratives as volatile failed state, one produces terrorist bodies acts. But rathe...

In today’s era of hi-tech technologies, criminals are easily fulfilling their inhuman goals against the mankind. Thus, the security of civilians has significantly become important. In this regard, the law-enforcement agencies are aiming to prevent future attacks. To do so, the terrorist networks are being analyzed using data mining techniques. One such technique is Social network analysis which...

One of the most critical problems facing governments at present is terrorism. Most recent studies are striving to find an optimal solution this problem that threatens security and stability people. To combat terrorism, government uses various means, such as improving education quality, providing labor opportunities, seeking social justice, creating religious awareness, building arrangements. Th...

Terrorist networks operate in hybrid space where activities in social and geographic spaces are necessary for logistics and security. The Islamist terrorist network is analyzed as a sociospatial system using social network analysis, Geographic Information Science (GISc), and novel techniques designed for hybrid space analyses. This research focuses on identifying distance and sociospatial depen...

Abstract The European Union's cooperation with Middle Eastern regimes to counter terrorism and prevent violent extremism has received increased scholarly attention following several terrorist attacks in Europe the last decade. Despite EU's emphasis on good governance, democracy, human rights East North Africa (MENA), I argue that Union is fact declining as a ‘normative power’ it prioritised ‘se...

This article examines the role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in counter-radicalization Nigeria, with emphasis on Boko Haram terrorist group operating northeast Nigeria and greater Lake Chad region. A qualitative methodological approach is employed that makes use primary secondary documents, key informant stakeholder interviews, focus discussions critical religious actors organizations. Th...

Introduction: Terrorism remains a major threat and concern in many countries around the world. Children represent approximately 30% of world population event terrorist attack can either be primary targets, to include possibility abduction, or unintended victims. are unique their vulnerabilities therefore, require special consideration. Method: This study is semi-quantitative epidemiological ana...