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ARTIS International is a scientific research organization that focuses on behavioral dynamics affecting conflict. Its work is field orientated, and the fellows come from a wide variety of disciplines.

The company has a significant focus on the limits of rational choice or utilitarian thinking in decision making. This can be seen in numerous publications including: "Religious and Sacred Imperatives in Human Conflict" ","Sacred Bounds on Rational Resolution of Violent Political Conflict", "The Devoted Actor's Will to Fight and the Spiritual Dimension of Human Conflict", "Challenges Researching Terrorism from the Field"

ARTIS International was founded in 2006 by Scott Atran, Richard Davis, and Marc Sageman.

ARTIS International collaborates with a variety of partners including The Minerva Research Initiative, Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Center for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at The University of Oxford, The United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate, and The Templeton Foundation.

The Devoted Actor Model

ARTIS fellows have long looked at the behavioral dimensions of conflict, focusing on sacred values and identity fusion. ARTIS has trademarked The Devoted Actor Model as a way to model human behavior which fundamentally diverges from rational, utilitarian behavior and can lead people to pursue violence. Most notably, the company published an article in the journal Nature Human Behaviour in August 2017 titled 'The Devoted Actor's Will to Fight and the Spiritual Dimension of Human Conflict'. This seminal work has resulted in features in multiple major news outlets including in CNN on Motivations driving fighters in The Levant, in The Guardian Why people die for a cause, and The Telegraph Where the mind is without fear.

Fellows

Senior Fellows include renowned political scientist Dr. Robert Axelrod (Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding at the University of Michigan and National Medal of Science winner), Richard Garwin (Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree), Dr. Baruch Fischhoff (Howard Heinz University Professor in the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon and member of the National Academy of Sciences), Dr. Douglas Medin (Louis W. Menk Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University and member of the National Academy of Sciences), Dr. Richard Nisbett (Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor of social psychology and co-director of the Culture and Cognition program at the University of Michigan and member of the National Academy of Sciences), the Honorable Lord John Alderdice (senior negotiator for the Good Friday Agreements and the first speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and former President of Liberal International), Juan Zarate (Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism), General (Ret.) Douglas M. Stone (Former Deputy Commanding Officer, MNF-Iraq), Captain (Ret.) Benjamin Runkle (former Senior Advisor on the National Security Council), Dr. Richard Davis (Chairman, Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism, World Federation of Scientists], and Scott Atran (Research Director in Anthropology at France's National Center for Scientific Research) .

General Publications

While using academic publications as a bedrock of the ARTIS research, fellows also frequently publish findings to more general audiences in major publications. Notable publications which have been driven through ARTIS International research include Terrorism: The Lessons of Barcelona, Paris: The War ISIS Wants, What Makes a Terrorist, How Spain Misunderstood the Catalan Independence Movement, Mindless Terrorists? The Truth about ISIS is Much Worse, ISIS After the Caliphate, ISIS: The Durability of Chaos, Why We Talk to Terrorists, and Give Palestine's Unity Government a Chance.

References

1. Atran, S.; Ginges, J. (17 May 2012). "Religious and Sacred Imperatives in Human Conflict". Science. 336 (6083): 855–857. Bibcode:2012Sci...336..855A. doi:10.1126/science.1216902. PMID 22605762. S2CID 22656530.
2. Ginges, J.; Atran, S.; Medin, D.; Shikaki, K. (25 April 2007). "Sacred bounds on rational resolution of violent political conflict". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (18): 7357–7360. Bibcode:2007PNAS..104.7357G. doi:10.1073/pnas.0701768104. PMC 1863499. PMID 17460042.
3. Gómez, Ángel; López-Rodríguez, Lucía; Sheikh, Hammad; Ginges, Jeremy; Wilson, Lydia; Waziri, Hoshang; Vázquez, Alexandra; Davis, Richard; Atran, Scott (4 September 2017). "The devoted actor's will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict". Nature Human Behaviour. 1 (9): 673–679. doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0193-3. PMID 31024146. S2CID 46825422.
4. Atran, Scott; Axelrod, Robert; Davis, Richard; Fischhoff, Baruch (27 January 2017). "Challenges in researching terrorism from the field" (PDF). Science. 355 (6323): 352–354. Bibcode:2017Sci...355..352A. doi:10.1126/science.aaj2037. PMID 28126773. S2CID 206653764.
5. Gómez, Ángel; López-Rodríguez, Lucía; Sheikh, Hammad; Ginges, Jeremy; Wilson, Lydia; Waziri, Hoshang; Vázquez, Alexandra; Davis, Richard; Atran, Scott (September 2017). "The devoted actor's will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict". Nature Human Behaviour. 1 (9): 673–679. doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0193-3. ISSN 2397-3374. PMID 31024146. S2CID 46825422.
6. "What motivates ISIS fighters -- and those who fight against them". CNN. 4 September 2017.
7. Davis, Nicola (4 September 2017). "Study of Iraq fighters reveals what makes people prepared to die for a cause". The Guardian.
8. "Where the mind is without fear". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on January 27, 2018.
9. "Robert Axelrod's Home Page". www-personal.umich.edu.
10. "Physicist and Science Adviser Richard Garwin Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom". 22 November 2016.
11. University, Carnegie Mellon. "Baruch Fischhoff - Engineering and Public Policy - College of Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu.
12. "Douglas Medin: Department of Psychology - Northwestern University". www.psychology.northwestern.edu.
13. "Nisbett". www-personal.umich.edu.
14. "Lord Alderdice". UK Parliament.
15. "Juan C. Zarate". www.csis.org.
16. "Doug Stone - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy". www.washingtoninstitute.org.
17. "Benjamin Runkle". Hoover Institution.
18. "Dr Richard Davis | Harris Manchester College". www.hmc.ox.ac.uk.
19. "Scott Atran | Department of Psychology | Research Center for Group Dynamics". sites.lsa.umich.edu.
20. Hamid, Nafees (2017-09-19). "Terrorism: The Lessons of Barcelona". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
21. Hamid, Nafees; Atran, Scott (2015-11-16). "Paris: The War ISIS Wants". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
22. Hamid, Nafees (2017-08-23). "What Makes a Terrorist?". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
23. Pretus, Nafees Hamid and Clara. "How Spain Misunderstood the Catalan Independence Movement". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
24. Atran, Scott (2015-11-15). "Mindless terrorists? The truth about Isis is much worse | Scott Atran". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
25. Davis, Richard; Waziri, Hoshang; Atran, Scott (2017-10-19). "ISIS After the Caliphate". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
26. Atran, Scott (2016-07-16). "ISIS: The Durability of Chaos". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
27. Atran, Scott; Axelrod, Robert (2010-06-29). "Opinion | Why We Talk To Terrorists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
28. Davis, Scott Atran, Robert Axelrod and Richard (2007-03-07). "Give Palestine's Unity Government a Chance". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-01-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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