# 3N Model **Entity class:** Radicalization framework **Aliases:** Need-Narrative-Network model **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition The **3N model** explains radicalization through the interaction of a need for significance, an ideological narrative that offers a path to significance, and a social network that validates and transmits that narrative. The three factors are mechanisms and conditions, not a deterministic diagnostic test. ## Relationships - **developed by:** [[wiki/Arie Kruglanski|Arie Kruglanski]] and collaborators. - **models:** [[wiki/Radicalization|Radicalization]]. - **network component:** [[wiki/Social Network Analysis|Social Network Analysis]] and [[wiki/Complex Contagion|Complex Contagion]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]