How Can Studying Human Potential Help to Prevent Radicalization of Society?
The authors of the study (Akhmet Yarlykapov, Sergey Markedonov, Natalia Samoilovskaya, Vasily Taran) focused on the main research question: how human capital affects the radicalization of society in Dagestan. The scientific digest presents the results obtained during field research on the territory of several subjects of the North Caucasus and Siberian Federal Districts, as well as their subsequent conceptualization based on actor-network analysis. The author's team relies on the concept of communication networks, seeing as its main task to identify visible or hidden networks of interaction between individuals and collectives connected by common ideals and interests.
The researchers come to an important conclusion: informal religious networks can be useful in the fight against radical and extremist groups, as the Dagestan experience shows. At the same time, it is important to understand that any religious structure may have its own goals, which do not always coincide with the state goal-setting.
Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center Digest Project is managed by Olga Voron.
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