The role of ideology, belief and commitment in motivations, justifications and catalysts for action in the face of uncertainty

这一领导力联谊会的总体主题是“意识形态、信念和承诺在面对不确定性时的动机、理由和行动催化剂中的作用”。它将为全球不确定性方案(GU)提供连贯性，使几个核心领域的研究得以整合，在研究人员之间建立跨学科联系，并吸引一系列外部利益攸关方。这个主题虽然是顾问组“意识形态和信仰”核心范畴的核心，但也与“恐怖主义”、“跨国有组织犯罪”和“网络安全”等核心范畴，以及与全球化、金融市场和气候变化有关的其他不确定和不稳定范畴有关。尽管意识形态和信仰有时在科学研究中被忽视或边缘化，但在个人和团体对决策的描述中，它们往往作为因果驱动因素或对随后行动的解释而突出表现出来。这些例子包括伊斯兰信仰在激进化和恐怖主义中的作用，以及美国法院正在进行的关于进化论与创世论的文化战争。即使在行动似乎是出于权宜之计、权力或财政和/或领土利益的情况下，意识形态和信仰也可能是物质利益的基础，可能被作为理由，或可能有助于产生不同影响的广泛画布。例如，种族承诺和忠诚度可能在一定程度上解释了参与有组织犯罪的原因。民族主义的政治信仰可能是枪支走私、电脑黑客或洗钱背后一系列原因的一部分。这一为期30个月的研究金将研究人员和非学术利益攸关方聚集在一个活动和事件方案中，展示和确定有助于这一主题的研究的新应用。它还包括一个更有针对性的研究项目，内容是“激进观点和暴力威胁中的意识形态承诺、边界的划定和神圣化”。领导力研究员(50%)将与一名全职研究助理和一名行政官员一起工作，每周工作一天，帮助组织计划活动。将举办一系列活动，旨在展示研究项目和建立研究人员与利益相关者之间的关系，包括一个展示和网络会议、两个英国/北美联合研讨会、学校工作坊、一个提问时间活动、一个项目研讨会和会议。研究金小组将与研究人员、政策制定者、实践者和其他利益攸关方合作，为包括教师和年轻人在内的更广泛的公众准备一份跨学科审查(关于研究主题)、政策简报和前瞻性扫描，以及简历S和学习资源。在他们自己的研究项目中，在意识形态运动的案例研究中，该团队将分析“神圣”主张、边界划定、他人战略以及暴力威胁和暴力行动之间的联系。他们将研究这些是如何在宗教和非宗教团体(包括伊斯兰和极右翼运动)的话语和空间实践中表达和实施的。他们将在早期工作的基础上再接再厉，这项工作产生了极端主义的标志矩阵。现在将进一步发展这一矩阵，并将其应用于审查不同的意识形态及其暴力的可能性。该项目的一个主要目标是与利益相关者合作，将矩阵转化为资源，供政策制定者、智库和其他公共和私营部门机构用于研究和评估风险、安全和全球不稳定问题。该团队将为全球不确定因素网站贡献资源，并将维护和进一步开发他们目前编辑的另外两个相关网站：www.激进主义研究网站和www.movingPeoplechangingPlaces.org，将这些网站作为向政策制定者、记者和更广泛的公众传播GU研究的工具。

The over-arching theme of this Leadership Fellowship is 'The role of ideology, belief and commitment in motivations, justifications and catalysts for action in the face of uncertainty'. It will provide coherence for the Global Uncertainties Programme (GU), enable research to be consolidated across several core areas, make interdisciplinary links between researchers, and draw in a range of external stakeholders. Whilst being central to the GU core area of 'Ideologies and Beliefs', this theme is also relevant to the core areas of 'Terrorism', 'Transnational Organised Crime' and 'Cybersecurity', and to other areas of uncertainty and instability in relation to globalisation, financial markets and climate change. Although sometimes overlooked or marginalised in scientific research, ideologies and beliefs often feature prominently in personal and group accounts of decision-making either as causal drivers or as explanations for the actions that follow. Examples include the role of Islamist beliefs in radicalisation and terrorism, and the culture war being fought in the US courts on evolution v. creationism. Even in cases where actions seem to be motivated by expediency, power or financial and/or territorial gain, ideologies and beliefs may underpin material interests, may be offered as justifications or may contribute to a broad canvas of different influences. Ethnic commitments and loyalties, for example, may partly explain participation in organised crime. Nationalist political beliefs may be part of a suite of causes behind gun-running, computer hacking or money laundering. This 30-month Fellowship brings together researchers and non-academic stakeholders in a programme of activities and events to showcase and identify new applications for research contributing to this theme. It also encompasses a more focused research project, on 'Ideological commitment, boundary making and sacralisation in radical views and threats of violence'. The Leadership Fellow (50%) will be joined by a full-time research assistant, and an administrative officer who will work one day a week helping to organise programme activities.A series of events - aimed to present research projects and to build relationships between researchers and stakeholders - will be organised, including a showcase and networking meeting, two joint UK/North America seminars, schools workshops, a Question Time event, a project symposium, and conference sessions. Collaborating with researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders, the Fellowship team will prepare an interdisciplinary review (on the research theme), policy briefings and forward scans, and resumés and learning resources for a wider public including teachers and young people. In their own research project, in case studies of ideological movements, the team will analyse the connections between 'sacred' claims, boundary-making, strategies of othering, and threats of violence and violent action. They will examine how these are expressed and enacted in the discourses and spatial practices of both religious and non-religious groups (including Islamist and far right movements). They will build on their earlier work, which produced a matrix of markers of extremism. This matrix will now be developed further and applied in an examination of different ideologies and their potential for violence. A key aim of the project is to work with stakeholders to translate the matrix into a resource that can be applied by policy makers, think tanks and other public and private sector bodies researching and assessing issues of risk, security and global instability.The team will contribute resources to the Global Uncertainties website, and will maintain and further develop two other relevant websites that they currently edit, www.radicalisationresearch.org and www.movingpeoplechangingplaces.org, using these as vehicles to disseminate GU research to policy makers, journalists and a wider public.