Planned Violence: Understanding the Increasing Threat Environment

Introduction The volume of Planned Active Violence has continued to trend upward over the past six years. We, meaning PGI, have increasingly discussed behavioral trends that we have always tracked in relation to Planned Active Violence (PAV). By Planned Active Violence, we refer to acts of violence that involve identifiable stages of grievance, behavioral [...]

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What Escalation Looks Like in Real Time: A Direct Alignment Between Behavior and Action

This article is a follow-up to our recent piece, When Reaction Replaces Reflection, which examined how behavior in our communities is changing and how reactions are outpacing reflection. This article takes a closer look at what unfolded, beginning with behavior in the days leading up to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, when a serious incident [...]

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