Mutual Radicalization: How Groups and Nations Drive Each Other to Extremes

Stanford Iranian Studies Program

Professor Fathali M. Moghddam discusses how radicalization has become a serious global problem. The talk explores mutual radicalization, where groups and nations push each other to extremes. Drawing from well-established psychological principles, a model of mutual radicalization is presented and international and national case studies are used as illustrative examples. Fathali M. Moghaddam is Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science and Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University. He is Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal 'Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology'. His most recent book is Mutual Radicalization: How Groups and Nations Drive Each Other to Extremes. Talk was given at Stanford University as part of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies quarterly lecture series on January 31, 2019.