Travis Morris

• Norwich University

The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of violent extremist propaganda. Frame analysis and network text analysis (NTA) are used to advance our understanding of how diagnostic frames function within violent extremist propaganda. Neo-Nazi and violent jihadi demagogues use diagnostic frames to identify grievances in order to lever...

This paper presents a way to understand the relationship between emotive words or phrases in terrorist/extremist propaganda. The term "relationship" in this paper is defined as the degree of contact that emotional markers have in text. An ontology is used to identify emotional content before being analyzed in text networking software, specifically...

A murky line separates the tactics and objectives between counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, United Nations Peacekeeping, and international civilian policing. Deploying the wrong national security model at the wrong time can escalate or prolong violence rather than mitigate it. However, prior to 2001, very few criminal justice scholars compared s...

Using interview and observational data collected in 2008, we examine how community leaders discuss gender norms and social stigma in Yemen. We focus on how interviewees describe how and why they stigmatize and discriminate against women. We pay particular attention to the connection between stigma and life chances (Link and Phelan 2001). Informants...

The central theme of this paper is that the phenomenology of perception can contribute to conceptualizing terrorism, in terms of both a research orientation and policy applications. This means that counter-terrorism needs to be grounded in a holistic perspective that has meaning from the point of view of those engaged in terrorism. A critique of th...

For this article, the authors used ethnographic and interview data collected in 2008 to examine restorative justice rituals performed in Yemen. Interviewees explain that, in rural Yemen, police officers defer to local sheikhs to maintain peace in this region. At the same time, these sheikhs sometimes work with government officials to ensure the ear...