Friday, December 9, 2016

Violent Extremism - Readings

These are various documents which I think are worth reading on violent extremism (VE). I will post more links to articles and books in the near future. We will discuss these ideas and the readings next week. You should let your curiousity be your guide -- read the things which interest you most first!

HISTORIES OF EXTREMISM

The Revolutionary Ascetic. Evolution of a Political Type by Bruce Mazlish www.arnoldrichards.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/MazlishReviewWeb.pdf
This book is brilliant and a must-read. Interlibrary loan?

Fire in the Minds of Men
https://books.google.ba/books?id=saTynFUNPD8C&printsec=frontcover
A very good reference to the ideas and histories of extremisms.

Anything by Walter Laqueur:

The Terrorism Reader (1978)

Guerilla Warfare https://books.google.ba/books?id=iQS-1jqgeScC&printsec=frontcover 
Prolific author and excellent reading.

Fictional Literature 

A Clockwork Orange 
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/clockworkorange/ https://www.amazon.com/Clockwork-Orange-Anthony-Burgess/dp/0393312836 
http://chabrieres.pagesperso-orange.fr/texts/clockwork_orange.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcUxJPffmUA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpRUNWPaJzU

Lord of the Flies
https://www.enotes.com/documents/lord-flies-chapter-1-sound-shell-53829 http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/ 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrTEouGbu0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1wVusxZcvM

These two are classic literature and great to read.

CURRENT SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

Overview: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_extremism#Causes 

Guide to the Drivers of VE
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADT978.pdf 

US Department of State
http://www.state.gov/j/remarks/260723.htm 

Scientificity & Critique:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a0899d40f0b64974000192/Drivers_of_Radicalisation_Literature_Review.pdf 

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-astonishingly-crap-science-of-counter-extremism-65810f8ac8e6#.qk15x2mp2 


Police Perspectives

http://www.theiacp.org/portals/0/pdfs/RadicalizationtoViolentExtremismAwarenessBrief.pdf http://www.osce.org/atu/111438?download=true 

For Further Reading Bibliography
http://www.start.umd.edu/terrorism-and-violent-extremism

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