Homegrown Violent Extremism

Catalog description

This course explores homegrown and domestic violent extremism in Western society, which has significantly increased due to the inspiration of domestic causes, foreign causes, and terrorist groups. This course examines the ideology of homegrown and domestic extremists and the different models of why and how people become radicalized and take violent action against their fellow citizens. Also addressed in this course is the increasing use of social media to recruit and radicalize individuals, initiatives to counter homegrown and domestic violent extremism, and efforts to de-radicalize individuals.