[Xmca-l] Re: Fwd: Address to UN Security Council

[Andy Blunden]

Thanks for this, Mike!
Scott Atran is the best I have read on Foreign Fighters.
See also 
http://artisresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Atran-Sheikh-G%C3%B3mez-PNAS-3-Dec-2104.pdf
and I completely agree with his conclusions as in the UN 
address.
I read his approach as one step away from Activity Theory, 
coming from a completely different direction.
See https://www.academia.edu/11822578/Something_worth_dying_for

Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
On 24/04/2015 10:40 AM, mike cole wrote:
> This might prove of interest.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Scott Atran* <satran@umich.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2015
> Subject: Address to UN Security Council
> To: COG-SCI-REL-L@jiscmail.ac.uk
>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Attached is my brief to the UN Security Council, which I will present at
> the UN on Thursday to introduce a full ministerial debate on the Role of
> Youth in Countering Violent Extremism.​
>
> ... Current  proposal in Congress to cut NSF social science funding by
> nearly half are, just from a national security vantage, nuts, so I've given
> NSF permission to use it in its lobbying.
>
> Cheers, Scott Atran
>
>
>