TAKEDOWN PROJECT: MODELLING VIOLENT RADICALISATION AND TERRORISM

DOSSIER

IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT VIOLENT RADICALIZATION, TERRORISM AND ORGANIZED CRIME, WE NEED TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE PATHWAYS OF RADICALIZATION, THE SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM AND ORGANIZED CRIME.

Date: 03.07.2018

Takedown cube model is a novel approach for analysing risks and tracing the pathways of radical individuals and terrorists.

Identified in empirical research, three main themes were abstracted and transferred into a model, where they were placed along the axes of a cube in order to allow the allocation of cases based on these three main themes.

The model is conceptualized as a 3-dimensional (cube) space: (1) Expected benefits from joining; (2) Exit costs; (3) Indistinguishability from others or obscurity to outsiders.

AUTHOR

AGENFOR INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

Agenfor International Foundation is a not for profit network aiming to work in the over-lapping contexts of development, humanitarian crises and human rights. Our goal is to ensure Security through a better protection of human rights and socio-political participation with a particular focus on minorities, prisoners and other vulnerable groups. We are active in the field of counter-radicalization with training courses and research activities addressing the needs of first-line practitioners from the public and private sectors all around Europe. We periodically plan proposals in the field of security, human rights and international cooperation to EU and other international funds with the support of an extended partnership that comprises all 28 EU countries, Switzerland and Turkey.