Dr. William AllchornFar-Right Extremist Exploitation of AI and Alt-Tech: The Need for P/CVE Responses to an Emerging Technological Trend
Read moreContent warning: This Insight contains examples of anti-Semitic & Islamophobic, far-right propaganda. Introduction Far-right groups have increasingly been able to…
Dr. William AllchornThe Role of Violent Conspiratorial Narratives in Violent and Non‐Violent Extreme Right Manifestos Online, 2015‐2020
Read moreThe Executive Summary and Overview is also available in French, German, Arabic, Indonesian and Japanese. Please read on for the…
Dr. William AllchornTowards a Truly Post-Organisational UK Far Right? The Usefulness of a Newly Emergent Concept
Read moreDespite recent hype around a post-organisational phase in extremist movements, the notion of a decentralised, leaderless group or movement –…
Dr. William AllchornFrom Direct Action to Terrorism: Canadian Radical Right Narratives and Counter-Narratives at a Time of Volatility
Read moreFor several years now, radical right extremist groups and their terror potential have been on the radar of Canada’s Security…
Dr. William AllchornThe Role of Conspiratorial Narratives in the Violent Radicalisation of Right-Wing Lone Actors
Read moreConspiracy theories have been talked about a lot recently as a key ingredient in the radicalisation of right-wing lone actor…
Dr. William AllchornFrom Gangs to Groupuscules & Solo-Actor Terrorism: New Zealand Far-Right Narratives and Counter-Narratives in the Context of the Christchurch Attack
Read moreAt 1.40pm on 15 March 2019, Christchurch shooter, Brenton Heston Tarrant, approached the Al-Noor Mosque near the city’s Hagley Park.…
Dr. William AllchornTurning Back to Biologised Racism: A Content Analysis of Patriotic Alternative UK’s Online Discourse
Read moreThe UK far-right has experienced a marked transition in the past decade from parliamentary to more extra-parliamentary forms of activism.…
Dr. William AllchornMoving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online
Read moreOver the past decade and a half, counter-narratives – defined as ‘messages that…, deconstruct or delegitimise extremist narratives’ (Tuck and…
Dr. William AllchornCumulative Extremism Online: How Moral and Strategic Aims Predict Narrative Escalation
Read moreOften when extremisms come about, they don’t occur in isolation. In the UK, for example, the emergence of extremist mobilisations…
Dr. William AllchornTechnology and the Swarm: A Dialogic Turn in Online Far-Right Activism
Read moreEarlier this week, the outgoing director general of the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, Sir Andrew Parker, suggested that technology was…
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