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  • Feb242020

    Far-Right Terrorism is Global, but Coverage is Not: Hindu Nationalist Violence in India

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    Last week brought news of a tragic event in Germany with a right-wing terrorist attack in the city of Hanau.…

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  • Feb202020

    Hiding in Plain Site: Islamic State’s ‘Muslim News’

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    Salafi-jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and Islamic State thrive in ungoverned spaces. Mali is no exception. And neither is its domain…

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  • Feb172020

    Points, Rankings & Raiding the Sorcerer’s Dungeon: Top-down and Bottom-up Gamification of Radicalisation and Extremist Violence

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    The research on gamification, defined as “the use of game elements in non-gaming contexts” usually aimed at facilitating a desirable…

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  • Feb132020

    Online Extremism in Latin America- An Overview

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    A look at the landscape of online extremism in Latin America stands to add to our overall understanding of this…

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  • Feb102020

    Shooting for Impact: Google‘s €10 Million Investment in Countering Online Extremism

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    What can we do to make our communities and citizens safe from online hate speech and extremist propaganda? At the…

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  • Feb062020

    Islamic State Adjusts Strategy to Remain on Telegram

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    Could Islamic State’s next digital home be…. Telegram? Over the past few months a sustained operation led by EU law…

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  • Feb042020

    Accelerationism in America: Threat Perceptions

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    Accelerationism is an ideologically agnostic doctrine of violent and non-violent actions taken to exploit contradictions intrinsic to a political system…

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  • Jan312020

    The Ukrainian Conflict: Foreign Volunteers and Online Identity Formation

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    Despite its local context, the conflict in Ukraine has attracted large numbers of foreign volunteers with estimates from 2014-2019 of…

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  • Jan292020

    The Yazidi Genocide: We Are Listening

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    On 3 August 2014, Islamic State swept across the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq in a bid to expand its…

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  • Jan202020

    Incels

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    In recent years there has been a growing concern from people who have identified as ‘incel’ (involuntarily celibate) due to…

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