PATHWAYS TO AND FROM VIOLENT EXTREMISM: THE CASE FOR SCIENCE-BASED FIELD RESEARCH Statement Before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats & Capabilities, March 10, 2010
Scott Atran · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2010
We are fixated on technology and technological success, and we have no sustained or systematic approach to field-based social understanding of our adversaries' motivation, intent, will, and the dreams that drive their strategic vision, however strange those dreams and vision may seem to us.