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A Social Identity and Social Power Perspective on Terrorism

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Abstract

This article presents a theoretical framework for understanding terrorism that is grounded in experimental work on social identity and social power. It is suggested that social identity salience and social power may be harnessed to reduce terrorist activity by reducing perceptions of threat from the view of terrorist organizations, by reducing perceived threat of terrorist activity from the view of potential targets, and by addressing distributions of and susceptibility to social power as it relates to acceptability of parochial altruism.

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social identitysocial powerterrorismcounter-terrorismreligious terrorismparochial altruism
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 6 Issue: 3
  • Page/Article: 76-83
  • DOI: 10.15664/jtr.1184
  • Submitted on 26 Jun 2015
  • Published on 29 Sep 2015
  • Peer Reviewed