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SUMMARY:The Recruiters: How Terrorist Groups Find the Right Stuff (for the Wrong Reasons)
DESCRIPTION:Radicalization continues to be addressed in binary (i.e. simplistic) ways, with involvement often considered the product of either "top-down" or "bottom up" processes. Yet these characterizations, and many others like them, have effectively obscured the role of actual recruiters in the process. Even in the smallest of terrorist groups, recruiters continue to be essential for their success, yet, and despite notable exceptions (e.g. Hegghammer, 2013) almost nothing is known about them, or how they do what they do. This presentation addresses a work (and book) in progress, and in doing considers what recruitment looks like at a time when ideological promiscuity permeates terrorism, and social media and artificial intelligence challenge the very notion that recruiters are even relevant. It concludes by addressing what we can learn from the study of recruitment in a variety of non-terrorism contexts.      John Horgan is Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University's Department of Psychology where he directs the Violent Extremism Research Group (VERG). His latest book, Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from al Qaeda to the Far Right was published by Columbia University Press in 2023. https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/the-recruiters-how-terrorist-groups-find-the-right-stuff-for-the-wrong-reasons/
LOCATION:School II, St Salvator\'s Quad, North Street, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 9AL
URL:https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/the-recruiters-how-terrorist-groups-find-the-right-stuff-for-the-wrong-reasons/
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