Conspiracy theories have been crucial in the radicalization process of the perpetrator of the Hanau-attack in Germany. Terje Emberland suggests that they were not only important on a political level but also, and perhaps ...
Social Sciences
Feb 25, 2020
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A new strategy to tackle bullying of children both inside and outside the school gates was recently released by the South Australian Department of Education.
Social Sciences
Sep 18, 2019
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Out of the 536 women who were killed from 1992-2016 in Denmark, 300 were killed by their partner. This figure corresponds to 57 per cent of all homicides with female victims.
Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2019
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During the 2016 Presidential Election, both major party candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, ran on polarizing platforms focusing on a few central issues: immigration, medicare, social issues (i.e., abortion, paid ...
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2019
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A lack of evaluation of the impact of countering violent extremism (CVE) and counter-terrorism (CT) efforts may actually be increasing the threat and risk of terrorism, a new study points out.
Social Sciences
May 22, 2019
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The famous Christmas Market in Strasbourg, France, became the latest place to be struck by terrorists.
Political science
Dec 19, 2018
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Recent evidence of above-average levels of education among genocide perpetrators and terrorists, such as those who carried out the 9/11 attacks, has challenged the consensus among scholars that education has a general pacifying ...
Education
Oct 11, 2018
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The challenges of preventing, mitigating and adapting to large-scale political violence are daunting, particularly when violence escalates where it is not expected. With funding from the European Research Council, ViEWS: ...
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2018
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The senseless attack on Manchester Arena left many of us reeling. My first reaction was to rush to my young daughter and hold her close. Such events make the violence we see in many parts of the world, all too real – we ...
Social Sciences
May 25, 2017
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Cliodynamics is a new "transdisciplinary discipline" that treats history as just another science. Ten years ago I started applying its tools to the society I live in: the United States. What I discovered alarmed me.
Social Sciences
Jan 4, 2017
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