How to use data to predict and prevent conflict
Worldwide, people are struggling to recover from political, religious, and ethnic conflicts. Conflict begins when grievances are expressed through violence and instability, and it helps violent extremism grow.
Extremist groups grow through creating social and political movements, gaining territory to legitimize their ideology, recruiting, exploiting populations with few choices, and expanding their funding apparatus through human, truck, or weapons trafficking.
Those groups that “go global” exploit unstable environments, creating complex foreign challenges with terrorism, insurgencies, and internal conflicts fanned by external sponsors. Innocent people are suffering from extreme poverty and displacement, and extremist groups are taking advantage of them to amplify destabilizing messages…