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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.7249/RR298
来源IDRR-298-A
Improving the U.S. Military's Understanding of Unstable Environments Vulnerable to Violent Extremist Groups: Insights from Social Science
David E. Thaler; Ryan Andrew Brown; Gabriella C. Gonzalez; Blake W. Mobley; Parisa Roshan
发表日期2014-01-16
出版年2013
语种英语
结论

The Research Team Identified 12 Underlying Factors Relevant to Unstable Environments Prone to Violent Extremism from Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, and Related Fields

  • Factor 1: The level of external support for violent extremist groups
  • Factor 2: The extent to which the government is considered illegitimate or ineffective by the population
  • Factor 3: The presence of tribal or ethnic indigenous populations with a history of resisting state rule
  • Factor 4: The levels of poverty and inequality
  • Factor 5: The extent to which local governance is fragmented, weak, or vulnerable
  • Factor 6: The existence of ungoverned space
  • Factor 7: The presence of multiple violent, nonstate groups competing for power
  • Factor 8: The level of government restriction on political or ideological dissent
  • Factor 9: The level of consistency and/or agreement between a violent extremist group's goals and the ideology of target populations
  • Factor 10: The extent to which population and extremist groups perceive faltering government commitment to a counterinsurgency campaign
  • Factor 11: The capacity, resources, and expertise of violent extremist groups
  • Factor 12: The pervasiveness of social networks

The Factors Can Be Assessed and Tracked Via Metrics

  • The factors are linked through complex, mutually dependent interrelationships.
  • Qualitative and quantitative metrics can be developed that enable assessment and tracking of factors. A number of relevant metrics in the public domain are updated annually and can be easily accessed for analysis.
  • Metrics can be used to assess and prioritize countries and regions based on the presence of factors that could give rise to unstable environments.
摘要

Over the previous decade, operations associated with irregular warfare have placed large demands on U.S. ground forces and have led to development of new Army and Joint doctrine. This report helps analysts identify and assess key factors that create and perpetuate environments susceptible to insurgency, terrorism, and other extremist violence and instability to inform military decisions on allocation of analytic and security assistance resources. The report focuses in particular on sources of understanding about these environments from the fields of sociology and cultural anthropology. RAND researchers surveyed existing sociological and anthropological theories and schools of thought and identified 12 key factors that give rise to and sustain unstable environments. The research found a relatively high degree of consensus among experts regarding the salience of these factors. The factors are interrelated and mutually dependent in complex ways. The report proposes a series of qualitative and quantitative metrics for each of the 12 factors and uses them in an analytic construct for assessing countries and regions based on their susceptibility to unstable environments.

目录
  • Chapter One

    Introduction

  • Chapter Two

    Gaining Insights into Unstable, Conflict-Prone Environments Through Social Science Lenses

  • Chapter Three

    Factors Associated with Environments Vulnerable to Conflict

  • Chapter Four

    Relationships Among Factors: Peru and Nepal Case Studies

  • Chapter Five

    Utilizing the Factors for Analysis

  • Chapter Six

    Conclusion

  • Appendix A

    Factors from Joint and Army Doctrine

  • Appendix B

    Factor Matrix

  • Appendix C

    Cross-Matching 12 Factors with RAND Case Studies on 30 Counterinsurgencies

主题Intelligence Analysis ; Military Intelligence ; Peacekeeping and Stability Operations ; Terrorism Threat Assessment ; Terrorist Organizations ; United States Army ; Violent Extremism
URLhttps://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR298.html
来源智库RAND Corporation (United States)
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David E. Thaler,Ryan Andrew Brown,Gabriella C. Gonzalez,et al. Improving the U.S. Military's Understanding of Unstable Environments Vulnerable to Violent Extremist Groups: Insights from Social Science. 2014.
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