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Q&A with Kurt Braddock about how rhetorical strategies can lead to violence.

Kurt Braddock is an Assistant Professor of Public Communication in the School of Communication at American University. Kurt also holds faculty fellow positions at the SOCs Center for Media and Social Impact (CMSI) and the Center for University Excellences Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). His research focuses on the persuasive strategies used by violent extremist groups to recruit and radicalize audiences targeted by their propaganda. Kurt also explores how theorie...

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