Sam DavidShock and Awe: Geopolitical Disruption and Terrorist Narrative Opportunism Online
Read moreThe US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, generated a short but intense disruption in…
Pierre SivignonEscape The Void: Responding to Youth-Led Nihilistic Violence
Read moreThis Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Addressing Youth Radicalization and Mobilization (AYRM). GIFCT Working Groups bring…
Daria Alexe“Agentic Smurfing”: How AI-Autonomous Micro-Laundering is Outpacing Traditional Terrorist Financing Detection
Read moreThe convergence of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency has created a new threat to counter-terrorism financing frameworks. By late 2025, extremist…
Harrison PatesThe Moscow Oblast School Stabbing: Digital Rehearsal, Gaming Communities, and Youth Pathways to Violence
Read moreIn the morning on 16 December 2025, local police were called to a school in Gorki-2, a 30 minute-drive West…
Imtiaz BalochFrom Defence to Offence: How Anti-Drone Technologies Are Empowering Militants in a New Era of Coordinated Drone Warfare
Read moreIn 2025, Pakistani security forces witnessed at least 405 quadcopter attacks by Islamists Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) and Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen (IMP) in parts…
Sergey Elkind3D-Printed Warfare: A New Phase in Jihadist “Do-It-Yourself” Innovation Targeting the West?
Read moreThis Insight analyses potential security threats associated with the use of 3D-printing technologies for the production of firearms and unmanned…
Nodirbek SolievThe Moscow Oblast School Stabbing: Understanding Hybrid Radicalisation and Transnational Online Subcultures
Read moreThe fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old Tajik immigrant schoolboy in the Odintsovo district of Moscow Oblast on 16 December 2025…
Nina KurtTesting Resilience: Can the Proposed EU Drone Wall Defend Against Extremist Actors?
Read moreThe European Union is developing a “Drone Wall”, officially named the European Drone Defence Initiative, consisting of a network of…
Sonja BelkinUnderstanding Cyberhacktivist Radicalisation: A Socio-Psychological Approach
Read moreNote: The following Insight draws on research conducted by Sonja Belkin and Kristy Sakano under the DoD–funded UC2 Cybercrime Collaboration…
Kevin Marc BlasiakThe Exploration of Dialogue-Based AI Interventions in P/CVE: Opportunities, Limits, and Lessons
Read moreAcross the Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) field, practitioners know that radicalisation processes increasingly unfold online, without face-to-face interactions.…
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