{"id":290,"date":"2013-01-22T22:55:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2013-04-12T22:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T02:59:58","slug":"americas-far-right-extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/22\/americas-far-right-extremists\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Far-Right Extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent new report on violent far-right extremists, published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctc.usma.edu\/posts\/challengers-from-the-sidelines-understanding-americas-violent-far-right\" target=\"_blank\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This study provides a conceptual foundation for understanding different far-right groups and then presents the empirical analysis of violent incidents to identify those perpetrating attacks and their associated trends. Through a comprehensive look at the data, this study addresses three core questions: (1) What are the main current characteristics of the violence produced by the far right? (2) What type of far-right groups are more prone than others to engage in violence? How are characteristics of particular far-right groups correlated with their tendency to engage in violence? and (3) What are the social and political factors associated with the level of far-right violence? Are there political or social conditions that foster or discourage violence?<\/p>\n<p>URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctc.usma.edu\/posts\/challengers-from-the-sidelines-understanding-americas-violent-far-right\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ctc.usma.edu\/posts\/challengers-from-the-sidelines-understanding-americas-violent-far-right<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also of related interest, the report and data on <a href=\"http:\/\/homegrown.newamerica.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Homegrown Terrorism Cases, 2001-2011<\/a> by the New America Foundation and Syracuse University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Maxwell School. URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/homegrown.newamerica.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/homegrown.newamerica.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excellent new report on violent far-right extremists, published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, is available here. This study provides a conceptual foundation for understanding different far-right groups and then presents the empirical analysis of violent incidents to identify those perpetrating attacks and their associated trends. Through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/22\/americas-far-right-extremists\/\" class=\"btn btn-link continue-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-terrorist-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}