Explaining Non- Or Limited Escalation Of Violence: The role of ‘Internal Brakes’
Why do some ‘extremists’ or ‘extremist groups’ choose not to engage in violence, or only in particular forms of low-level violence? Why, even in…
Donald Holbrook
The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: A Descriptive Typology
Why do some ‘extremists’ or ‘extremist groups’ choose not to engage in violence, or only in particular forms of low-level violence? Joel Busher, Donald…
The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: A Descriptive Typology (Full Report)
A CREST report by Joel Busher, Donald Holbrook and Graham Macklin examines why there are often thresholds of violence that members of extremist groups…
The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: A Descriptive Typology (Executive Summary)
This is the executive summary of the full report on The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation, by Joel Busher, Donal Holbrook and Graham Macklin….
The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: The Transnational and British Jihadi Scene
This report is the first empirical case study, produced out of The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: A Descriptive Typology project, funded by CREST….
The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: The British Extreme Right
This report is the second empirical case study, produced out of The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: A Descriptive Typology project, funded by CREST….
The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: The Animal Liberation Movement
This report is the third and final case study, produced out of The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: A Descriptive Typology project, funded by…
The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: A Typology
Most groups do less violence than they are capable of. Yet while there is now an extensive literature on the escalation of or radicalisation…
Same Kind of Different: Affordances, Terrorism, and the Internet
The rapid development of the Internet as a cornerstone of private and social life has provoked a growing effort by law enforcement and security…
After Islamic State Series: Workshop Report I
This workshop report is the first in a series of reports that tackle the implications of the demise of the Islamic State. CREST has…
The Islamic State and Ayman al-Zawahiri’s ‘alternative jihad’
Donald Holbrook suggests rumours of al-Qaeda’s demise have been greatly exaggerated and considers how they might benefit from IS’s misfortunes As al-Qaeda approaches its…