Violent Extremism and Proclivities

analysts: A couple of years ago, those analysts began asking the question: What if we have it backward Could it be that terrorists are not people with extreme ideas trying to build up the courage to turn them into murder, but rather violence-prone people hunting for some excuse to turn their proclivities into deeds This was in part because the old violent extremism approach was failing to produce results, according to Globe and Mail. Studies of thousands of known terrorists and killers have identified little that will predict violent behaviour. But even as these controversial laws and programs were taking shape, a quiet revolution was taking place among the analysts who do the hard work of counterterrorism analysis inside the agencies of Canada, the United States and Britain. Religious upbringing doesn’t make people more likely to commit attacks. Nor does age, neighbourhood, ethnicity, social class, marital status, education level or immigration status. Nor does poverty. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.