GNET Webinar - Unpacking Subcultures of Nihilistic Violence: Bridging Research, Policy, and Law Enforcement Responses
The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), with support from the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), invites you to attend our next webinar: Unpacking Subcultures of Nihilistic Violence: Bridging Research, Policy, and Law Enforcement Responses.
This webinar will feature a discussion, followed by a Q&A, highlighting key considerations for P/CVE practitioners, researchers, and policymakers working to understand the spread of online subcultures of nihilistic violence.
Specifically, the discussion will centre on GNET’s recent policy paper, authored by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, titled ‘Beyond Extremism: Platform Responses to Online Subcultures of Nihilistic Violence.’ The panellists will offer an overview of the report, its findings, and how P/CVE practitioners from different sectors can move forward in developing effective and proportionate responses to the rise of nihilistic violent extremism.
Where: Online via Zoom
When: Tuesday 21st April, 16:00 BST / 11:00 EDT
What: Discussion and Q&A
Panellists:
Dr Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens (chair) is Co-Director of the Centre for Statecraft & National Security (CSNS) and lecturer in Terrorism and Radicalisation in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He is the co-convener of the MA in Terrorism, Security and Society and convenor of the Homegrown Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation optional MA module. His research interests focus on the ideology and strategy of extremist social movements in the West, with a particular interest in militant Islamists and the extreme right.
Milo Comerford is Senior Director of Policy & Research at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, leading ISD’s global team of extremism experts and international programme of research and policy partnerships across Europe, North America and Australasia. Milo is an internationally recognised subject matter expert on extremism, providing regular briefings for senior decision makers on the evolving threat landscape, and featuring frequently in international media, including BBC News, Politico, CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Milo studied Philosophy and Theology at Oxford University, and was previously Senior Analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where he led major studies on online extremism, extremist propaganda and educational responses to extremism. Milo is an advisory board member of the Prevention Practitioners Network, a network of more than a thousand front line practitioners working to tackle terrorism and targeted violence across the US, as well as a member of Spotify’s Safety Advisory Council.
Rob Richardson leads project RHYOBASALT, which is the national response to the Com Network threat. The project seeks to bring together a coherent response across law enforcement, safeguarding partnerships, industry, academia and the third sector to deliver a public health approach to this harmful threat.
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