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Localisation

Projet de recherche Kanishka

Ressource

Livres électroniques

Titre alternatif

Measuring importance and influence in Syrian foreign fighter networks

Auteurs

• Carter, Joseph A., author.
• Maher, Shiraz, author.
• Neumann, Peter R., 1974-, author.
• International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, issuing body.

Publié

• London, U.K. : ISCR, [2014]

Bibliographie

Includes bibliographical references.

Description

1 online resource (32 pages) : charts, photographs

Note

"The research for this paper was made possible by a grant from the Government of Canada’s Kanishka Project."--Acknowledgements.

Résumé

"Over the past 12 months, a team of researchers from ICSR have created a database which contains the open source social media profiles of 190 Western and European foreign fighters. More than two thirds of these fighters are affiliated with Jabhat al-Nusrah or the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), the two groups that have, at one point or another, maintained formal relationships with al-Qaeda. The social media activity of these users reveals a unique and unfiltered window into the minds of a population about whom much has been written and speculated. This is the first in a series of papers that draws on information from the database. It examines the question of how foreign fighters in Syria receive information about the conflict and who inspires them."--Pages 6-7.

Sujet

• IS (Organization).
• Qaida (Organization).
• Guerrillas - Syria.
• Terrorists - Syria.
• Social media.
• Internet and terrorism.
• Electronic information resources.

Contenu

Introduction -- Section 1: Methodology -- The database -- The dataset -- Section 2: Results -- The new disseminators -- The new spiritual authorities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.