Countering Terrorist Ideologies: A Rational Actor and Game Theoretic Analysis of De- Radicalization Programs for Al-Jemaah Al-Islamiyah Prisoners in Singapore and Indonesia

Countering terrorist ideologies is a task that relies exclusively on trust in an authority and the matching of incentives to individual needs for any success to be realized. Broad messaging campaigns undertaken by both physically and/or culturally removed authorities have little impact due to credibility problems and tendencies to over-generalize. This work, proposing that successful counter-ideology occurs at the level of the individual, constitutes a rational actor and game theoretic anal...