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  • 10 - Violent Extremism and the Moral Landscape

  • from Part II - Individual-Level Perspectives
  • Edited by Milan Obaidi, University of Copenhagen, Jonas Kunst, BI Norwegian Business School
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism
    Published online:
    31 October 2025
    Print publication:
    07 August 2025, pp 185-206

  • Summary

    Moral beliefs are often proposed as causes of violent extremism, specifically, and political violence more generally. Yet, few empirical studies focus on the general causal links between morality and violent extremism. We review several strands of scholarship that bear directly or indirectly on the morality-extremism link. Several general psychological frameworks that cover morality can be applied to explain extremism, notably the Moral Foundations Theory, the Theory of Honour Culture, moral universalism, and theories of moral dilemmas (the Trolley problem literature). Other approaches, such as Virtuous Violence and Sacred Values Theory, provide more direct morality-based explanations for extremism. Our main contention is that the causal link between moral beliefs and violent extremism remains woefully unexplored and that this presents a sharp contrast with the central role that extremist movements often attribute to moral narratives in their justifications for violence. We highlight the need to incorporate morality-based appeals (linked to the reviewed frameworks) in studies of interventions to combat violent extremism and that policymakers should recognize the potentially significant role of moral beliefs as a driver of extremism.

  • Compassion-focused approaches to understanding the mental health of climate scientists

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  • Luis Calabria, Charlotte Peters, Marc Williams
  • Journal:
    The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist / Volume 17 / 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 October 2024, e34
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  • Abstract

    As we face a future of rising global temperatures, and associated extreme weather events, distressing emotional responses are understandable. Climate scientists comprise a unique group, in that they must regularly confront the reality, and consequences, of climate change. In this paper, we explore how the principles of compassion-focused therapy (CFT) might be applied to comprehend the responses of climate scientists to climate change; by doing so, we aim to gain a deeper understanding of these responses in order to consider fruitful avenues for providing support and investigating this area further. We consider how flows of compassion, and blocks to compassion, might play a role in climate scientists’ experiences. Additionally, we conceptualise a role for compassion towards the wider world and humanity more broadly. Finally, by applying the CFT Three Systems model to current understanding of climate scientists’ emotional experiences, we seek to proffer a potential conceptualisation of them.

    Key learning aims

    1. (1) To formulate the emotional experiences of climate scientists from a compassion-focused therapy perspective.

    2. (2) To explore how blocks to flows of compassions serve to negatively impact and/or maintain difficult emotional experiences of climate scientists.

    3. (3) To consider ways in which the field of psychological therapy can support climate scientists through a difficult emotional journey, and how future research might explore this further.

  • Chapter 10 - “Genealogy” and the Genealogy

  • Edited by Simon May, King's College London
  • Book:
    Nietzsche's <I>On the Genealogy of Morality</I>
    Published online:
    05 November 2011
    Print publication:
    13 October 2011, pp 214-233

  • Summary

    Among the rich veins of gold running through On the Genealogy of Morality is supposedly the methodologically distinct one of genealogy itself. This chapter presents a general articulation of what a genealogy might be. It discusses some of its consequences. The normative consequences of a given genealogy depend on the particular kind of genealogical account offered. The chapter discusses and rejects the idea that Nietzsche's particular genealogy constitutes an internal or immanent critique of morality or a revaluation of values. It argues that Nietzsche's genealogy has the normative consequence of destabilizing the moral beliefs it explains, namely by motivating the requirement to seek some further justification for those beliefs. The chapter then briefly explains the role of destabilization in Nietszche's wider project of the revaluation of values. It concludes by discussing some issues regarding genealogy as real history.