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

这个领导奖学金的主题是“意识形态的作用，信仰和承诺的动机，理由和催化剂在面对不确定性的行动”。它将为全球无障碍方案提供一致性，使研究能够在几个核心领域得到巩固，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。虽然是“意识形态和信仰”的GU核心领域的中心，这个主题也与“恐怖主义”，“跨国有组织犯罪”和“网络安全”的核心领域，以及与全球化，金融市场和气候变化有关的不确定性和不稳定性的其他领域有关。虽然有时在科学研究中被忽视或边缘化，但意识形态和信仰往往在个人和团体的决策账户中占据突出地位，无论是作为因果驱动因素还是作为对随后行动的解释。例子包括伊斯兰信仰在激进化和恐怖主义中的作用，以及美国法院就进化论与神创论进行的文化战争。即使在行动的动机似乎是权宜之计、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，可能被用作理由，或可能促成广泛的不同影响。例如，种族承诺和忠诚可能部分解释了参与有组织犯罪的原因。民族主义政治信仰可能是枪支走私、电脑黑客或洗钱背后的一系列原因之一。这个为期30个月的奖学金将研究人员和非学术利益相关者聚集在一起，开展一系列活动，展示和确定有助于这一主题的研究新应用。它还包括一个更有重点的研究项目，关于“意识形态承诺，边界划分和激进观点和暴力威胁的神圣化”。领导力研究员（50%）将由一名全职研究助理和一名每周工作一天的行政官员协助组织项目活动。将组织一系列活动-旨在介绍研究项目并建立研究人员和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，学校研讨会，提问时间活动、项目研讨会和会议。研究金小组将与研究人员、政策制定者、从业人员和其他利益攸关方合作，为包括教师和青年在内的广大公众编写一份（关于研究主题的）跨学科审查报告、政策简报和前瞻性扫描报告以及宣传材料和学习资源。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，边界制定，他者策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表达和制定的话语和宗教和非宗教团体（包括伊斯兰和极右运动）的空间实践。他们将在先前工作的基础上再接再厉，这些工作产生了一个极端主义标志矩阵。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潜力。该项目的一个主要目标是与利益攸关方合作，将汇总表转化为一种资源，供决策者、智囊团和研究和评估风险、安全和全球不稳定问题的其他公共和私营部门机构使用，该小组将向全球不稳定网站提供资源，并将维持和进一步开发他们目前编辑的另外两个相关网站www.radicalisationresearch.org和www.movingpeoplechangingplaces.org，利用这些网站作为向决策者、记者和广大公众传播全球团结大学研究成果的工具。

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.