Dr Nafees Hamid is Research & Policy Director for the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) project and a Fellow at the Centre for Statecraft and National Security (CSNS). He is a cognitive scientist who focuses on political violence, radicalisation, and social fragmentation. His research includes face-to-face interviews, survey studies, social network analysis, psychology and neuroscience experiments with members and supporters of extremist movements such as jihadist organisations, White Nationalists, QAnon devotees, and former armed group members from around the world. He is most known for his ground-breaking research on the first-ever brain imaging studies of extremists (i.e. jihadist supporters). This research garnered wide-spread public interest and was singled out by senior policy-makers and practitioners as one of the most insightful pieces of research in countering extremism and political violence.
The Spectre of Neuroscience in Security Studies
By Nafees Hamid What can neuroscience tell us about violent extremism? As a cognitive scientist who was part of the…
Mass Media and Persuasion: Evidence-Based Lessons for Strategic Communications in CVE
The full Briefing Note can be accessed here. Please read on for the Key Findings. Mass media persuasion by itself…