# Erin Marie Saltman: How young people join violent extremist groups -- and how to stop them

Terrorists and extremists aren't all naturally violent sociopaths — they're deliberately recruited and radicalized in a process that doesn't fit into a neat pattern. Erin Marie Saltman discusses the push and pull factors that cause people to join extremist groups and explains innovative ways of preventing and countering radicalization.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2016
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ErinMarieSaltman_2016X)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/ErinMarieSaltman_2016X?play=1)