Kurt Braddock: Counternarratives - a podcast by John F. Morrison

In this week's episode John returns to the interviewers chair and interviews Dr. Kurt Braddock a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State. Dr. Braddock leverages communication theory to explore the persuasive effectiveness of terrorist groups' strategic messages (particularly narratives) intended to recruit or radicalize audiences. He also develops theory-based guidelines for developing strategic messages that counter the radicalization process. His work has been published in several communication and terrorism journals, including Communication Monographs, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Dr. Braddock has performed research for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the British government.

Research that has influenced Kurt's career

John Horgan (2008). From Profiles to Pathways and Roots to Routes: Perspectives from Psychology on Radicalization into Terrorism

Jerold Post, Ehud Sprinzak, and Laurita Denny (2003). The terrorists in their own words: Interviews with 35 incarcerated Middle Eastern terrorists

Max Taylor and John Horgan (2006). A conceptual framework for addressing psychological process in the development of the terrorist.

Some of Kurt's key research

Towards a guide for constructing and disseminating counternarratives to reduce support forterrorism. With John Horgan (2015).

Meta-analytic evidence for the persuasive effect of narratives on beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors. With James Price Dillard (2016)

Treatment approaches for terrorists and extremists. (Forthcoming)

Further episodes of Talking Terror

Further podcasts by John F. Morrison

Website of John F. Morrison