84: Why people become terrorists: Nafees Hamid

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Andrew Gold

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🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Nafees Hamid talks about what makes people into terrorists and other forms of extremists…and how we might be able to persuade them or talk them down. He is a research fellow at ARTIS International, an associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, and a Frederick Bonnart-Braunthal Trust scholar in the University College London's Department of Security and Crime Science. Watch my follow-up interview later that night as host of the Shaun Attwood show: https://youtu.be/LqFj9ig657Q. Nafees Hamid Socials: Twitter: @NafeesHamid Instagram: nafees_hamid_ Videos: NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/opinion/domestic-terrorism-jihadists.html Netflix (S2E6): https://www.netflix.com/title/81098586 Articles: The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/the-neuroscience-of-terrorism-how-we-convinced-a-group-of-radicals-to-let-us-scan-their-brains-114855 NYRB: https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/nafees-hamid/ Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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