SFI Workshop: Modeling dynamics of violent radicalization in Western democracies

拟议的研讨会将汇集来自多个学术学科的学者，努力对导致西方民主国家公民暴力激进化的因素提出新的见解。除了借鉴广泛的学科外，研讨会还旨在解决不同层面--个人、群体和社会--的原因，以确定促成激进化的因素。通过召集来自不同学科的学者，并着眼于多个层面，组织者希望对导致激进化的条件有新的见解。基于这些新的见解，他们计划开发包含这些因果要素的新理论模型，并编制数据集，使他们能够测量这些变量并测试他们的理论。鉴于最近西方民主国家公民激进化和实施暴力行为的一些例子，这项工作尤其重要。了解这种转变是如何以及为什么发生的，是制定有效的反激进主义战略的重要一步。这些发现将提交给感兴趣的学术和政策相关社区。技术摘要拟议的研讨会将汇集来自政治学、心理学、人类学、计算机科学和数学生物学的学者，调查导致西方民主国家个人暴力激进化的因素。现有关于这一主题的研究往往集中在个体或微观层面。多学科团队将扩大这一重点，不仅研究微观层面的原因，而且还要研究中观和宏观层面的原因。通过从广泛的学科中吸取教训，并将重点扩大到包括多个层次的分析，研讨会的目的是让这些不同的团队确定更精确的、可能是新的因果机制。从那时起，目标是利用这些洞察力来构建新的理论模型，并构建适当的数据集来测试它们。这项研究尤其重要，因为它提供了一种手段，鼓励覆盖现有学术社区的研究网络。正在调查的主题是及时的，学者和政策制定者都非常感兴趣。该团队的计划是向学术和政策制定社区广泛传播这一发现。这些发现有可能有助于制定减少西方民主国家暴力激进化的战略。

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.