Radicalization

Members

Alhaji Cherif

Hirotoshi Yoshioka

Prasanta Bose

Ni Wei

We only summarize our intention in this wiki, interested individual should talk to any of the group members

Background

Current US counter-terrorism efforts have either scattered, killed or captured Al-Qaeda's core leadership, reducing the threat from its central core operatives, foot-soldiers and leaders. However, the Jihad-Salafism continues to spread at an exponential rate across various locales, as a result creating subcultures within vulnerable Islamic Diaspora communities. The aim of this project is two-fold: [1] Radicalization process: Recent modeling efforts have focus on strategic measures of controlling terrorism, few have focus primarily on the horizontal process of fanaticism. However, these models fail to incorporate various dynamics (oblique and vertical process of fanaticism). In our project, we model the process of radicalization that includes ideological transmission with differential recruitments. [2] Control Mechanism: In this project, we hope to develop new kind of control mechanism we have called reactive control. Usually, application control theory requires one to know the equations representing the system of interest. However, most real world problems, at least the interesting one, do not have any concrete equations. In order to circumvent this problem, we hope to develop a coarse-grained control theory that adaptively adjusts to the mechanism of interest.