Countering violent extremism: A mathematical model

作者：

Highlights：

• Countering violent extremism modelled with an epidemic model.

• Five compartments are considered: susceptible, vaccinated, recruiters, extremists and treatment.

• The dynamics is determined by the basic reproduction number R0

• If R0<1 the equilibrium with no terrorists is globally stable, and extremists and recruiters head for extinction.

• Model is used to assess strategies to counter violent extremism.

摘要

•Countering violent extremism modelled with an epidemic model.•Five compartments are considered: susceptible, vaccinated, recruiters, extremists and treatment.•The dynamics is determined by the basic reproduction number R0•If R0<1 the equilibrium with no terrorists is globally stable, and extremists and recruiters head for extinction.•Model is used to assess strategies to counter violent extremism.

论文关键词：Extremism,Mathematical sociology,Sociophysics,Population model,Global stability,Lyapunov functions

论文评审过程：Received 25 January 2019, Revised 1 April 2019, Accepted 14 April 2019, Available online 4 May 2019, Version of Record 4 May 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2019.04.054