ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
COUNSTER introduces a novel triadic framework to investigate government strategies for combatting radicalization, insurgency, and terrorism by focusing on the role non-state armed actors’ (NSAAs) constituents play in conflict processes. While the literature extensively addresses military aspects of conflicts, how governments strategically engage with NSAAs’ constituents during a conflict to sever the ties between the two (hereafter referred to as to counster / counstering, a term coined within this project) has been widely neglected despite its prevalence. COUNSTER addresses this gap by arguing that we should turn our focus towards modeling the causes and outcomes of counstering efforts and…
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