Narrative Strategy: Creating the Target Audience
Understand that meaning-making happens when internalized narratives interact with external events, people, ideas. Keep Reading
Narrative Security Expert Ajit Maan Launches New Column at Homeland Security Today
Maan originated the groundbreaking theory of internarrative identity, a road map for resilient identity created out of personal and cultural conflict. Her work has had far-reaching implications for conflict resolution and community engagement in hostile environments. Keep Reading
The Intelligence We Need to Succeed at Influence
By understanding subconscious narratives we learn what the target audience doesn’t know about itself. Keep Reading
PERSPECTIVE: Delegitimizing ISIS and Militant Jihadist Ideologies May Also Require Addressing Anti-Western Biases
Some commenters took the counternarrative and speaker having been from their country as an insult to their national pride and thus suggested that they did not find the speaker credible. Keep Reading
Defeat Terrorists by Dominating the Narrative Space
Coalition forces are having serious trouble keeping up in the narrative space. Keeping up is a bad idea, anyway. Keep Reading
PERSPECTIVE: Debating the Use of ISIS Counter-Narratives in the Heart of Europe
The first line of defense has been, and may always be, physically eliminating locations of ISIS media points and arresting those pushing out online content. Keep Reading
PERSPECTIVE: Challenges in Creating, Deploying Counter-Narratives to Deter Would-be Terrorists
In crafting effective counter-messaging tools, one must consider the messenger, the audience and the medium. Keep Reading
PERSPECTIVE: Using Counter-Narrative Campaigns to ‘Break the ISIS Brand’ in Iraq
Videos stimulate much-needed discussions on contentious socio-political issues that often fuel violent extremism. Keep Reading