Melissa Johnston, Jacqui True
Hostile sexist attitudes toward women and support for violence against women are the factors most strongly associated with support for violent extremism based on survey research in four countries in 2018-19. In three countries in Asia (Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines) individuals who suppo...
Jonathan R. Brauer, Charles R. Tittle, Olena Antonaccio
A negative association between religiosity and crime is commonly documented in the United States and other Western contexts. In this study, we examine associations between religiosity and criminal probability among randomly selected survey respondents in a non‐Western Christian context (Lviv, Ukrain...
Chetan Bhatt
Sometime in early 2006, a Powerpoint presentation on 'reformist' Islam produced a couple of years earlier by the Strategic Policy Team of the Home Office and Foreign Office was leaked to the New Statesman. (1) It was one of numerous other such documents describing the government's strategic thinking...
Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor, Issa Khan, Mohammad Elius
This study evaluates the concept of religious freedom and interreligious relationships in Islam. The research engages in textual analysis and historical interpretation of the Qur’an and Sunnah (the Prophetic tradition) regarding the freedom of religious beliefs and practices as well as Muslim relati...
Patrick James, Jonathan Wilkenfeld
We began this analysis with the point that the structural characteristics of collectivities of states have been largely ignored in studies of conflict and crisis. The analysis was aimed at identifying, operationalizing, and examining the effects of a set of such structural factors on process and out...
C. Christine Fair, Ali Hamza, Rebecca Heller
Abstract Bangladesh, one of the world's largest Muslim countries, is generally viewed as a success story with a strong tradition of secular democracy. Unfortunately, this assertion rests on a weak empirical foundation. Since becoming independent from Pakistan in 1971, democracy and secularism have b...
Shafi Md Mostofa
Challenges from Islamist militants have been an integral part of Bangladesh’s political landscape since the 1980s. Islamist militancy has passed through different phases of silent and active forms, drawing inspiration from conflicts in Libya, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. A vast literature...
Qeyamuddin Ahmad
Founded by Sayyid Ahmad (1786-1831) of Rae Bareli, the Wahhabi Movement in India was a vigorous movement for socio-religious reforms in Indo-Islamic society in the nineteenth century with strong political undercurrents. It stood for a strong affirmation of Tauhid (unity of God), the efficacy of ijti...
Shahab Enam Khan
Bangladesh is currently facing an incremental growth of radicalization. This radicalization can be traced back to the country’s early post-Independence years. Over time, political violence, ideological clashes between secular and right-wing ideologies, and weak governance have created conditions for...
James F. Short, John Moland
AbstractScholarly interest in the political relationships of youth gangs recently has revived, following mass media reports of the politicization of some gangs and federal and private funding in support of economic and socially constructive programs in which a few large gangs participated. Unlike ea...
Yeshim Iqbal, Rezarta Bilali
Abstract Acknowledgement of responsibility for in‐group harmdoing is considered a precondition for reconciliation. However, we know little about its impact on victim groups. Using a mixed methods approach, in two studies in Bangladesh we examined the role of acknowledgement and denial of responsibil...
Sourav Saha, Jahedul Alam Junaed, Maryam Saleki, Arnab Sen Sharma et al.
Sourav Saha, Jahedul Alam Junaed, Maryam Saleki, Arnab Sen Sharma, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Mohamed Rahouti, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nabeel Mohammed, Mohammad Ruhul Amin. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2023). 2023.
Sabahat Çiğdem Bağci, Gülseli Baysu, Mustafa Tercan, Abbas Türnüklü
Despite increasing contact opportunities, prejudice toward refugees persists, especially in mass immigration contexts. We investigated changes in and associations between Turkish early adolescents’ ( N = 687, M age = 11.11 years) positive and negative contact with Syrian refugees and their outgroup ...
Humayun Kabir, Myfanwy Maple, Md Shahidul Islam, Kim Usher
The Rana Plaza building collapse occurred on 24 April 2013 in Savar, near the capital city of Bangladesh, killing more than 1130 garment workers and injured about 2500, mostly females. Those who survived face ongoing challenges, including socio-cultural constraints, economic hardship, post-traumatic...
Julie Chernov Hwang
How do individuals join Islamist extremist groups? Why do individuals support such groups? What factors contribute to a decision to join? What are the pathways into Islamist extremist groups? Drawing on examples from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines, the articles in this special i...