SFI Workshop: Modeling dynamics of violent radicalization in Western democracies

SFI 研讨会：西方民主国家暴力激进化动态建模

• 批准号: 1735467
• 负责人: Mirta Galesic
• 金额: $ 1.69万
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735467&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SFI; Workshop; Modeling; dynamics; violent

General AbstractThe proposed workshop will bring together scholars from a number of academic disciplines in an effort to develop new insights into factors that lead to the violent radicalization of citizens in Western democracies. In addition to drawing from a wide set of disciplines, the workshop also aims to address causes at different levels -- individual, group, and societal -- to identify factors that contribute to radicalization. By convening scholars from across academic disciplines, and looking at multiple levels, the organizers hope to gain new insight into the conditions that give rise to radicalization. Based on these new insights, they plan to develop new theoretical models that incorporate these causal elements and to compile data sets that will allow them to measure these variables and test their theories. This is especially important work given a number of recent examples in which citizens from Western democracies radicalized and perpetrated acts of violence. Understanding how and why such transformations occur is an important step toward developing effective counter-radicalization strategies. Such findings will presented to interested scholarly and policy-relevant communities along.Technical AbstractThe proposed workshop will bring together scholars from political science, psychology, anthropology, computer science, and mathematical biology to investigate factors that give rise to violent radicalization of individuals in Western democracies. Existing research on the topic tends to focus on the individual or micro-level. The multi-disciplinary team will expand that focus to look not only at micro-level causes, but meso- and macro-level causes as well. By drawing from a wide set of disciplines and expanding the focus to include multiple levels of analyses, the aim of the workshop is to get these diverse teams identify more precise and possibly new causal mechanisms. From there, the aim is to use these insights to build new theoretical models and construct appropriate data sets to test them. This is especially important research in that it provides a means to encourage research networks that reach across existing scholarly communities. The subject matter being investigated is timely and of great interest to scholars and policy makers alike. The team's plan is to disseminate the findings widely to both academic and policy making communities. These findings have the potential to help develop strategies to reduce violent radicalization in Western democracies.

摘要一般拟议的研讨会将从许多学科的学科中汇集学者，以发展新的见解，以实现导致西方民主国家公民暴力激进化的因素。 除了从广泛的学科中汲取灵感外，该研讨会还旨在解决不同层次（个人，群体和社会）的原因，以确定有助于激进化的因素。 通过召集来自学术学科的学者，并研究多个层次，组织者希望对引起激进化的条件获得新的见解。 基于这些新见解，他们计划开发新的理论模型，以结合这些因果元素并编译数据集，以使他们能够测量这些变量并测试其理论。 鉴于许多最近的例子，西方民主国家的公民激进和实施暴力行为，这是特别重要的工作。 了解这种转变是如何以及为什么发生的原因是发展有效的反激进策略的重要步骤。 这些发现将提交给感兴趣的学术和与政策相关的社区。技术摘要拟议的研讨会将使政治科学，心理学，人类学，计算机科学和数学生物学的学者聚集在一起，以调查引起西方民主制度暴力激进的因素。 关于该主题的现有研究倾向于集中于个人或微观层面。 多学科团队将扩大重点，不仅要研究微观的原因，而且还要研究中层和宏观层面的原因。通过从广泛的学科中汲取灵感并将重点扩展到包括多个分析的重点，研讨会的目的是使这些多样化的团队确定更精确，可能是新的因果机制。从那里开始，目的是利用这些见解来构建新的理论模型并构建适当的数据集来测试它们。 这是尤其重要的研究，因为它提供了一种鼓励跨越现有学术社区的研究网络的方法。 所调查的主题是及时的，并且对学者和政策制定者都非常感兴趣。 该团队的计划是将研究结果广泛传播到学术和政策制定社区。 这些发现有可能帮助制定减少西方民主国家暴力激进化的战略。