Unleashed by globalisation’s dark side and the collapse of communities, radical Islam and the alt-Right share a common cause
Review of Peter Gill, Today We Drop Bombs: Tomorrow We Build Bridges. Times Literary Suppliment, September 21st 2016.
Human Behaviour: The will to fight for and against IS
Review of Peter Gill, Today We Drop Bombs: Tomorrow We Build Bridges. Times Literary Suppliment, September 21st 2016.
Giving back vitality in our values to open our societies
Scott Atran : Giving back vitality in our values to open our societies
Analysing the limits of rational choice in political and cultural conflict
What drives people to take up arms for groups such as ISIS? Video by Harvey Whitehouse, Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Rethinking the war on terrorism, with the help of science
Transcript of an interview with Scott Atran for In Theory, www.washingtonpost.com
ISIS: The Durability of Chaos
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On the Front Line Against ISIS: Who Fights, Who Doesn’t, and Why
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The Devoted Actor: Unconditional Commitment and Intractable Conflict across Cultures
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Scott Atran on Sacred Values
How lightly, or how tightly, do you hold your values? Are there things you hold dear, which almost automatically excite your emotions, for which you would make the costliest of sacrifices?