Resilient non-radicalisers: beating the odds through non-radicalisation despite significant suffering
Resilient non-radicalisers: beating the odds through non-radicalisation despite significant suffering
Kamil Yilmaz M. Alper Sozer Niyazi Ekici Joe Whittaker a Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC) & Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Swansea University, Swansea, UKb Artis International, MD, USAc School of Justice Studies, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, USAd Department of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, USAKamil Yilmaz currently works as a Lecturer at the Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy and a post-doctoral researcher at the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CyTREC), Swansea University in the UK. He is also a Research Fellow at Artis International, Maryland, USA. He is interested in Computational Social Science and his research interests include political violence, anthropology of terrorism, radicalization and deradicalization processes related to terrorism, terrorists’ use of social media and malign influence operations.Dr. M. Alper Sozer currently works as an Assistant Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Roger Williams University. He has a diverse background in law enforcement, counter-terrorism, and international security. His research interests include policing, radicalization, crime policy, and international security.Niyazi Ekici is an Associate Professor at Western Illinois University in the Department of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration. He earned a B.A. in Security Studies, an M.A. in Political History, an M.A. in Criminal Justice, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice. With 18 years of policing experience across various ranks and units—including crime investigation, counter-terrorism, police training, and background investigations—Dr. Ekici brings a wealth of practical knowledge to his academic role. He lectures on topics such as theories of crime, community policing, contemporary policing methods, public and private security, terrorism, sociological theories, criminal justice systems, statistics, and research methods at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Ekici has published two books and authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious academic journals.Joe Whittaker is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminology, Sociology, and Social Policy at Swansea University, UK, and is a member of the Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC). His research focuses on terrorists’ and extremists’ use of the Internet and his projects have included: behavioural studies of terrorist behaviours; experiments on social media recommendation systems; and surveys of involuntary celibates. He also researches responses to terrorism, such as the regulation of social media and strategic communications.