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Who Becomes a Terrorist?: Poverty, Education, and the Origins of Political Violence
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In this paper, the authors developed a theory of participation in violence that incorporates both opportunity costs and informational barriers to participation and tested it by comparing violent and nonviolent political activists involved in the anticolonial agitation in Bengal (1906-39) using data from their police files.Abstract:
Many studies of the social backgrounds of terrorists have found that they are wealthier and better educated than the population from which they are drawn. However, studies of political behavior have shown that all forms of political involvement are correlated with socioeconomic status. Among those who are politically active, opportunity costs may lead those involved in nonviolent activities to have a higher social status than violent individuals with a similar ideological orientation. This article develops a theory of participation in violence that incorporates both opportunity costs and informational barriers to participation and tests it by comparing violent and nonviolent political activists involved in the anticolonial agitation in Bengal (1906–39) using data from their police files. While the Bengali terrorists are better educated and have higher status jobs than the population average, they are less educated and less wealthy than the nonviolent activists. These results suggest that socioeconomic status may play a substantial negative role in terrorist recruitment within elites.read more
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Climate shocks and political violence
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TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between environmental scarcity and political violence in a global sample of countries, 1970-2006, and found that water abundance is positively correlated with political violence, and that this relationship is stronger in less developed, more agriculturally dependent societies.
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Social entrepreneurship as emancipatory work
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the emancipatory potential of social entrepreneurship as a means to disengage individuals enthralled to ideology and trapped by their own past behavior, and study two former religious-based terrorists from Indonesia and their social enterprise, a cafe chain, which has successfully emancipated 10 ex-terrorists.
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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Risks: Participation in an Ethnic Rebellion
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of well-established hypotheses about selfish and identity based motivations and a new hypothesis based on prospect theory were tested to understand why ordinary people take extraordinary risks and join an ethnic armed rebellion.
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The recruiter’s dilemma Signalling and rebel recruitment tactics
TL;DR: Hegghammer, Thomas as mentioned in this paper, The Recruiter's Dilemma: Signaling and Terrorist Recruitment Tactics. Journal of Peace Research 2013 ;Volum 50, s. 3-16
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