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Cyberspace: The New Battlefield - An Approach via the Analytics Hierarchy Process

Hurley, John S. - In: International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism (IJCWT) 7 (2017) 3, pp. 1-15

The transition of the warfare mentality from the conventional domains of engagement (air, land, maritime, and space) to the cyberspace domain has not been an easy one for established organizations and institutions. The battlefield, in which now speed and stealth instead of size and budget are...

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Development Challenges in Extremist Affected Areas

Commission, Expert Group Planning - eSocialSciences - 2009

Widespread discontent among the people has plagued the Indian polity for sometime now. It has often led to unrest, sometimes of a violent nature. Over the years, statutory enactments and institutional mechanisms for addressing the various aspects of deprivation have been brought into being. But...

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Can Extremism Guarantee Pluralism?

Gargiulo, Floriana; Mazzoni, Alberto - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 11 (2008) 4, pp. 9-9

segregation process of the extremists that results in many real communities. We show how this process affects opinion dynamics in … opinion: extremists are less willing to interact with individuals with strongly different opinions and to change significantly … uniformity, but the same is happening whenever a strong segregation process of the extremists occurs. Only when extremists are …

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Mass Media and Polarisation Processes in the Bounded Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics

Mckeown, Gary; Sheehy, Noel - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 9 (2006) 1, pp. 11-11

This paper presents a social simulation in which we add an additional layer of mass media communication to the social network \'bounded confidence\' model of Deffuant et al (2000). A population of agents on a lattice with continuous opinions and bounded confidence adjust their opinions on the...

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Irregular army : how the US military recruited neo-nazis, gang members and criminals to fight the war on terror

Kennard, Matt - 2012

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How Can Extremism Prevail? a Study Based on the Relative Agreement Interaction Model

Deffuant, Guillaume; Amblard, Frederic; Weisbuch, Gérard - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 5 (2002) 4, pp. 1-1

distribution submitted to the relative agreement model. Depending upon the choice of parameters, the extremists can have a very …

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Maoism in India : reincarnation of ultra-left wing extremism in the twenty-first century

Chakrabarty, Bidyut; Kujur, Rajat Kumar - 2010

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The Dispossessed: A Labor-Market Analysis of Extreme Political Violence

Milgrom, Eva Meyersson - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2010

Highly-educated individuals are over-represented among violent operatives of insurgent organizations in the Middle East. This suggests four inter-related questions: (1) Why do those who seem to have good prospects willingly endanger their own lives? (2) What incentives drive these highly...

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Going to extremes : how like minds unite and divide

Sunstein, Cass R. - 2009

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Who are the expressive voters?

Drinkwater, Stephen; Jennings, Colin - In: Public Choice 132 (2007) 1, pp. 179-189

do not test this hypothesis. Greene and Nelson (2002) claim to reject this, by finding that extremists are as likely to …

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