Scott Atran

Quick Facts

Full Name	Scott Atran
Occupation	Anthropologist
Date Of Birth	Feb 6, 1952(1952-02-06)
Age	72
Birthplace	New York City
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Aquarius

Scott Atran Biography

Scott Atran is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on February 6, 1952 in New York City, New York, United States. Scott Atran (born February 6 1952) is an American-French cultural anthropologist . He is Emeritus Director for Research in Anthropology at the Centre national of Research scientifique in Paris as well as a research professor in the University of Michigan, and co-founder of ARTIS International and of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflicts located at Oxford University. He has written and studied about violence, terrorism and religion. He has conducted fieldwork with terrorists as well as Islamic fundamentalists as in the role of political leaders.

Atran’s discussions alongside Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Richard Dawkins and others at The 2006 Beyond Belief symposium on the limitations of reason as well as the importance of religion in contemporary society reveal the stark differences between the authors who believe that religion is fundamentally false and based on ancient cosmology, as well as being socially and politically oppressive as well as Atran who believes that unproven however ridiculous religious concepts and ritual obligations that are crucial to the development and social cohesion in large-scale societies as well as current motivations for conflict and cooperation.

Atran has experimented on the ways scientists and ordinary people categorize and reason about nature, on the cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion, and on the limits of rationality in understanding and managing deep- seated cultural and political conflict. His work has been widely published internationally in the popular press, and in scientific journals in a variety of disciplines. He has briefed members of the US Congress and the National Security Council staff with documents and presentations including “The Devoted Actor versus the Rational Actor in World Conflict”, “Comparative Anatomy and Evolution of Global Network Terrorism” and “Pathways to and from Violent Extremism”. He was an early critic of U.S. intervention in Iraq and of deepening involvement in Afghanistan. In April 2015, he addressed the United Nations Security Council on “Youth, Peace, and Security.”

Atran and colleagues propose an alternative approach, driven by theoretically- framed field research that ground-truths big data and informs policy-making while maintaining intellectual independence. In 2017, Atran co-authored a groundbreaking paper with Angel Gomez, Lucia Lopez-Rodriguez, Hammad Sheikh, Jeremy Ginges, Lydia Wilson, Hoshang Waziri, Alexandra Vazquez, and Richard Davis. Titled ‘The Devoted Actor’s Will to Fight and the Spiritual Dimension of Human Conflict’, the piece focuses on the spiritual dimensions of conflict based upon field work in Iraq with combatants and lab studies, assessing non- utilitarian dimensions of conflict. Atran and his team have validated aspects of these behavioral findings in recent neuroimaging studies of radicalized individuals in Europe, including greater willingness to fight and die for sacred versus non-sacred values that involves inhibition of deliberative reasoning in favor of rapid, duty-bound responses.

If you look at young individuals like those who were able to blast train tracks at Madrid in 2004 and killed a number of people at the London underground in 2005, and planned to blow up airliners from the sky towards in the United States in 2006 and 2009, and then traveled across the globe to kill people who were infidels from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia; as you consider who they admire as well as how they plan their activities as well as the motives behind them, you can see that the motivation behind the most deadly terrorists today isn’t so much the Koran or the religious doctrines, but an exciting appeal to action which promises glory and respect to friends and through friends everlasting respect and recognition to the world at large that they will never get to experience. …. Jihad has been described as an open, egalitarian company: …fraternal, fast-breaking, exciting, beautiful and cool.

Scott Atran Net Worth

Scott Atran is one of the richest Anthropologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Scott Atran 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The researchers were able to ask Binyamin Netanyahu (then the leader of the opposition), “Would you seriously consider accepting a two-state solution following the 1967 borders if all major Palestinian factions, including Hamas, were to recognize the right of the Jewish people to an independent state in the region?” He said, “Yes, but the Palestinians would have to show that they sincerely mean it, change their textbooks and anti-Semitic characterizations and then allow some border adjustments so that Ben Gurion [Airport] would be out of range of shoulder-fired missiles.”

In 1974, he initiated an exchange at Royaumont Abbey in France on the nature of universals in our human thoughts and in society. Others who participated included the linguist Noam Chomsky and the psychologist Jean Piaget, anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Claude Levi-Strauss, and biologists Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod, which Harvard’s Howard Gardner and others consider as a landmark in the growth of cognitive science.

Far from being ignorant, impoverished, nihilistic, or mentally ill, suicide terrorists tend to be educated, middle class, morally engaged, and free of obvious psychopathology. Atran concluded that many of the motives may be found in nepotistic altruism… [Atran shows that] Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups [hold] out a carrot rather than a stick to the terrorist’s family in the form of generous monthly stipends, lump-sum payments, and massive prestige in the community…. Atran has [also] found that suicide terrorists can be recruited without these direct incentives. Probably the most effective call to martyrdom is the opportunity to join a happy band of brothers. Terrorist cells often begin as gangs of underemployed single young men who come together in cafes, dorms, soccer clubs, barbershops, or Internet chat rooms and suddenly find meaning in their lives by a commitment to the new platoon…. Commitment to the group is intensified by religion, not just the literal promise of paradise but the feeling of spiritual awe that comes from submerging oneself in a crusade, a calling, a vision quest, or a jihad. [Atran writes that religion] may also turn a commitment to a cause into a sacred value — a good that may not be traded off against something else, including life itself. The commitment can be further stoked by the thirst for revenge, which in the case of militant Islamism takes the form of vengeance for the harm and humiliation suffered by any Muslim anywhere on the planet at any time in history, or for symbolic affronts such as the presence of infidel soldiers on sacred Muslim soil.

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Scott Ranked on the list of most popular Anthropologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Scott Atran celebrates birthday on February 6 of every year.