What drives Westerners to fight for ISIL?
Scott Atran appeared on Al Jazeera TV’s UpFront with Mehdi Hasan to discuss what drives Westerners to fight for ISIL. Click to watch the interview: Saturday, September 12, 2015 Appearance
Scott Atran appeared on Al Jazeera TV’s UpFront with Mehdi Hasan to discuss what drives Westerners to fight for ISIL. Click to watch the interview: Saturday, September 12, 2015 Appearance
Nafees Hamid, Research Fellow at Artis, has been accepted to this year’s Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film where he will be representing a screenplay he developed based on a true story that he came across during his field work in France. He has developed this project with two time Academy Award Nominee Saar Klein…
S. Atran & D. Stone. 16 March 2015. “The Kurds’ Heroic Stand Against ISIS” in The New York Times.
“The ISIS in the Room: I felt the impact of an attack by the terrorist group. So why didn’t my research data?” (5 February 2015.) Nautilus. Issue 021. by Lydia Wilson
“For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight” (30 December 2014). In Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution. 5(1). Atran, S., Sheikh, H., and Gómez, Á.
“For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight” (30 December 2014). In Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution. 5(1). Atran, S., Sheikh, H., and Gómez, Á.
“The Devoted Actor as Parochial Altruist: Sectarian Morality, Identity Fusion, and Support for Costly Sacrifices” (December 30, 2014.) In Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution. , vol 5(1). By Sheikh, Hammad; Atran, Scott; Ginges, Jeremy; Wilson, Lydia; Obeid, Nadine; Davis, Richard.
“The Devoted Actor as Parochial Altruist: Sectarian Morality, Identity Fusion, and Support for Costly Sacrifices” (December 30, 2014.) In Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution. , vol 5(1). By Sheikh, Hammad; Atran, Scott; Ginges, Jeremy; Wilson, Lydia; Obeid, Nadine; Davis, Richard.
“That’s not how religion works, Ben Carson” by Jesse Singal in NYMag.com. 22 September 2015. “Tunisian terror cell promises more bloodshed in new video” by Simon Speakman Cordall in Newsweek. 29 June 2015. “Ce que la sociologie propose dans la lutte contre la violence extrémiste” by Scott Atran in Le Huffington Post. 29 June 2015. “La…
Jordan’s Prince El Hassan bin Talal praises Scott Atran, Senior Research Fellow at ARTIS, calling his book Talking to the Enemy “spectacular” in a speech at the Third Catholic-Muslim Summit