Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2-2025
Abstract
Violent non-state actors (VNSAs) that use terrorism recruit a wide range of people and draw upon distinct features to entice them. They recruit men and women, the highly educated and undereducated, military veterans, and police officers. They sometimes reach these people with religious, racial, or ideological rhetoric. What do we know about VNSA’s global recruitment patterns? How widespread are different recruitment choices (e.g. military veterans), and which recruitment characteristics are likely to co-occur? Based on the 2019 National Strategy for Counterterrorism priorities 1.1, 3.2, and 3.3 to understand and establish prevention architecture to thwart terrorist radicalization and recruitment, this report describes new data on eight measures of recruitment patterns collected for over 250 VNSAs.
Recommended Citation
Perkoski, Evan; Loken, Meredith Maloof; and Worsnop, Alec, "Trends in Terrorism Recruitment: Examining Recruitment Patterns among 250 Armed Groups using Terrorism" (2025). Reports, Projects, and Research. 118.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/ncitereportsresearch/118