crisis actor

Definitions

1. 1

   A person employed to portray a disaster victim during emergency drills.

2. 2

   A person who secretly acts out a role, such as victim or mourner, as part of a staged…

   A person who secretly acts out a role, such as victim or mourner, as part of a staged depiction of a deadly event, particularly a mass shooting.

   • The victims in the shooting? They were “crisis actors” hired to promote the story as a pretext to impose tighter gun restrictions, the theory goes.
   • Moscow’s ambassador to the United Nations dismissed Associated Press photographs of the aftermath as “fake news,” and the Foreign Ministry alleged that bloodied, pregnant women evacuated from the rubble were crisis actors.
3. 3

   A participant in an international crisis.

   • Finally, the greater the proportion of nondemocracies among crisis actors, the more likely it becomes that escalation will occur.
   • Cases with minimal crisis actor participation are found in most regions of the global system.

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