# Epidemiological Modeling of Violent Extremism **Entity class:** Cross-domain modeling framework **Epidemiological modeling of violent extremism** applies population, network, exposure, reinforcement, clustering, and state-transition methods to ideological and behavioral phenomena. It models the spread of informational content and conditions of mobilization; it does not classify ideology as a microorganism or a person as a biological pathogen. ## Relationships [[wiki/Complex Contagion of Violent Extremism|Complex Contagion of Violent Extremism]] · [[wiki/Network Epidemiology|Network Epidemiology]] · [[wiki/Pathogen Analogy Boundary|Pathogen Analogy Boundary]] · [[wiki/Counterterrorism Collection - Public Health and Violence Prevention|Public Health and Violence Prevention]] ## Sources - [Mason Youngblood — Extremist ideology as a complex contagion, July 31, 2020](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00546-3) **As of:** 2026-09-23