Islamophobia, Radicalisation and CVE
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Ryan Scrivens - Online Behaviour of Right Wing Extremists
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When deradicalisation goes wrong? Applying the social psychology of persuasion in conflict to understand backlash effects in PVE/CVE with Prof. Winnifred Louis
This talk takes up the social psychology of (in)effective persuasion in conflict as a framework to understand trajectories of radicalisation and deradicalisation. I review empirically-supported reasons that (de)radicalising appeals succeed or fail, from an intergroup perspective, and evidence-based principles of successful intervention. Importantly a group-based approach highlights that different sources and approaches will be effective to promote desistance, disengagement, and ideological deradicalisation. I describe one specific model of political action outcomes, which I developed with colleagues, in which we examined the success and failure for ordinary activists of past conventional and radical political actions, and examined the impact upon subsequent intentions, support for democracy, law-breaking, and well-being across contexts (e.g., immigration, gun control, abortion, vegan, marriage equality). The talk closes with a summary of key takeaway messages in applying a social psychological analysis to intergroup persuasion for or against terror, and list of unanswered questions where future research would be useful.
View Professor Winnifred Louis bio here.
Counterterrorism & Predictive Technologies with Dr. Shiri Krebs
Post 9/11, counter-terrorism decision-making processes are increasingly reliant on predictive technologies, including surveillance, drone and satellite imaging, big data analytics, and automated algorithms. Dr Krebs will discuss the effects of predictive technologies, and the opaque epistemologies they entail, on counter-terrorism decision-making processes. Her research identifies and demonstrates three problems stemming from technology-assisted counter-terrorism decision-making: first, the outputs of predictive technologies are often perceived as objective, complete, and neutral, masking the subjective and speculative elements involved in their production. Second, the combination of predictive technologies and opaque epistemology embraces uncertainty as the baseline for knowledge, resulting in a transition from juridical to administrative decision-making process. As a result, data-generated avatars replace the real persons – or the actual conditions on the ground – with no effective way available to refute these virtual representations. Third, erroneous decisions often remain unaccounted for, as technology systems are being blamed for mistaken, technology-assisted, human decisions.
She will also offer several recommendations to better incorporate technology-generated data into counter-terrorism decision-making processes
Dr. Shiri Krebs is an Associate Professor at Deakin University’s Law School, and Co-Lead, Law and Policy Theme, at the Australian Government Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC). She also serves as Research Division Leader, Law, Regulation, and Strategic Policy, at Deakin’s Cyber Security Research and Innovation Centre (CSRI). Dr Krebs is an affiliated scholar at Stanford University’s Centre for International Security and cooperation (CISAC). Dr Krebs’ research focuses on algorithmic bias and drone data vulnerabilities, data privacy, and human-machine interaction in technology-assisted legal decision-making, at the intersection of law, science and technology. Her scholarship has been published at leading international law and general law journals and has been supported by a number of research grants, including, most recently, from the Australian Government Cyber Security Cooperative research Centre. Dr Krebs earned her Doctorate and Master Degrees from Stanford Law School, as well as LL.B. and M.A., both magna cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
AVERT International Speaker Series: John Morrison on “Talking Stagnation”
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