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.…
Muskan SangwanModern Warfare: The Islamic State’s Emerging Drone Instruction Ecosystem
Read moreOver the past decade, Islamic State (IS) has repeatedly adjusted the way it teaches technical skills, responding both to changes…
Chevy AthaThe Jakarta Bombing: Youth Digital Radicalisation and the Urgent Need for Adaptive PCVE Responses
Read moreThis Insight analyses the digital influences, memetic behaviours, and visual-symbolic cues that underpinned the explosion that occurred on 7 November…
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