Lone Actors: Challenges and Opportunities for Countering Violent Extremism

Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • A. Richman
  • Y. Sharan
Book title Lone actors - an emerging security threat
ISBN
  • 9781614995845
Series NATO science for peace and security series. Sub-series E, Human and societal dynamics
Event NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Lone Actors: An Emerging Security Threat, Jerusalem, Israel
Pages (from-to) 120-131
Publisher Amsterdam: IOS Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract This paper explores some of the key challenges and opportunities concerning the prevention and control of lone actor terrorism. It is argued that lone actors do not operate in a social vacuum and that the interaction points between lone actors and their social environments can render lone actors both visible and vulnerable. This is explored through a particular focus on lone actors' use of, and engagement with, social media and the internet, which presents both challenges to and opportunities for the prevention and interdiction of lone actor terrorism.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-585-2-120
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