Harvey Whitehouse: Quelling radicalization through new understanding of ritual, fusion and identity

What drives people to take up arms for groups such as ISIS? Harvey Whitehouse, Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, shares research that points towards the importance of the extent to which individuals perceive their personal identity to be “fused” with the group identity – a sense of fusion that comes from bonding over shared experiences.

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