How young people join violent extremist groups — and how to stop them | Erin Marie Saltman

Published on December 9, 2017

Terrorists and extremists aren’t all naturally violent sociopaths — they’re deliberately recruited and radicalized in a process that doesn’t fit into a neat pattern. Erin Marie Saltman discusses the push and pull factors that cause people to join extremist groups and explains innovative ways of preventing and countering radicalization.

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