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Counterterrorism & Political Violence

Incel Terrorism

Finding the haystack before searching it

Type
Research Paper
Year
2021
Domain
Counterterrorism
Author
Andrew Azadan

(U) The claim

Incel violence resists the detection methods built for religious and political terrorism, because its drivers are individual psychology and environment rather than organizational affiliation.

Counterterrorism effort concentrates on right-wing and jihadi threats, both of which leave organizational signatures. The paper argues incel terrorism does not: it depends on the psychology of an individual and the environment that individual sits in, which makes it unusually hard to anticipate.

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