Book contents
- Weaponized Words
- Weaponized Words
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Battlefield
- Part II The Weapons
- 3 Extremist Narratives and Counter-Narratives
- 4 Vaccinating against the Enemy: Attitudinal Inoculation, Radicalization, and Counter-Radicalization
- 5 The Reasoned Action of Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization
- 6 Terrorism is Theater: Emotion in Extremist Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda
- Part III The War
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Vaccinating against the Enemy: Attitudinal Inoculation, Radicalization, and Counter-Radicalization
from Part II - The Weapons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2020
- Weaponized Words
- Weaponized Words
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Battlefield
- Part II The Weapons
- 3 Extremist Narratives and Counter-Narratives
- 4 Vaccinating against the Enemy: Attitudinal Inoculation, Radicalization, and Counter-Radicalization
- 5 The Reasoned Action of Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization
- 6 Terrorism is Theater: Emotion in Extremist Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda
- Part III The War
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
On a summer afternoon in July of 2011, Anders Breivik drove a white Volkswagen Crafter into the heart of the Oslo government district.1 He stopped the vehicle at the H Block of Grubbegata – at the main entrance to the office of Norway’s Prime Minister. He exited the van and walked down Grubbegata towards a gray Fiat Dobló, where witnesses described him getting into the car and driving the wrong way down Møllergata. This may have seemed strange to those that saw it occur, but the man was wearing a black helmet with a lowered visor and carrying a pistol in his right hand. Perhaps he was a police officer with urgent matters to attend to. Breivik was not a police officer, but he did have other plans for the day.
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- Weaponized WordsThe Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization, pp. 110 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020