MUST READ -- we are SOCIAL CONTAGIONS!!! Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian ( excerpt) Last year, the DoDs Minerva Initiative funded a project to determineWho Does Not Become a Terrorist, and Why? which, however, conflates peaceful activists with supporters of political violence who are different from terrorists only in that they do not embark on armed militancy themselves. The project explicitly sets out to study non-violent activists: In every context we find many individuals who share the demographic, family, cultural, and/or socioeconomic background of those who decided to engage in terrorism, and yet refrained themselves from taking up armed militancy, even though they were sympathetic to the end goals of armed groups. The field of terrorism studies has not, until recently, attempted to look at this control group. This project is not about terrorists, but about supporters of political violence. (further ...) In 2013, Minerva funded a University of Maryland project in collaboration with the US Department of Energys Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to gauge the risk of civil unrest due to climate change. Thethree-year $1.9 million project is developing models to anticipate what could happen to societies under a range of potential climate change scenarios. theguardian/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown
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