ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Terrorist Group Adaptation & Lessons for Counterterrorism
Terrorist groups find ways to adapt to changes in their environment to stay relevant and powerful. This project offers new insights into this phenomenon by developing a more nuanced theoretical strategic framework and using quantitative methods to examine how terrorist groups survive, and sometimes thrive, despite efforts to combat them. This is accomplished by integrating political psychology, social movement, and terrorism research, and applying big data analytics and machine learning common in brain sciences, natural sciences, and bioinformatics to identify adaptation patterns in terrorist attack target selection and brutality. First, this project frames terrorism as a recruitment tool…
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