- Apr282020
Salafist Groups’ use of Social Media and its Implications for Prevention
Researchers largely agree that radicalisation processes mostly include both real-world and virtual conditions. However, the interaction of both spheres has…
Hande Abay Gaspar - Apr272020
Comparing Jihadist and Far-Right Extremist Narratives on COVID-19
It should come as no surprise that extremist groups are talking about COVID-19. Beyond the immediate public health emergency, this…
Milo Comerford - Apr232020
The Amalgamation of Virtuality and Reality in Radicalisation Processes
Virtuality has long since become an integral part of the world we live in today. It is thus not surprising…
Manjana Sold - Apr222020
The ‘Incel’ Ideology Continues to Build a Strong Following in the Online ‘Manosphere’
While most of the counterterrorism community has focused on the threat posed by Salafi-jihadists and radical right-wing extremists, the growth…
Dr. Colin Clarke - Apr212020
Online Antisemitism in Times of COVID-19
On 7 April, Germany’s Commissioner on antisemitism Felix Klein warned of a surge in antisemitism with the spread of the…
Julien Bellaiche - Apr212020
5G and the Far Right: How Extremists Capitalise on Coronavirus Conspiracies
Not since 9/11 has a global event given so much opportunity to conspiracy theorists as the novel coronavirus pandemic. The…
Dr. Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens - Apr152020
“#CoronaJihad”: How the Far-Right in India is Responding to the Pandemic
A number of far-right extremists have recently taken to social media platforms to spread conspiratorial content about COVID-19. Such conspiracy…
Dr. Eviane Leidig - Apr152020
Coronavirus and Official Islamic State Output: An Analysis
‘Islamic State is avoiding Europe/telling fighters to avoid Europe’: headlines and stories along these lines circulated in many media outlets…
Aymenn Al-Tamimi - Apr142020
Islamic State Propaganda in India
The 221st issue of Islamic State’s (IS) al-Naba’ newsletter was perhaps the first time IS dedicated an entire page to…
Kabir Taneja - Apr082020
The Coronavirus as a Means to an End: Extremist Reinterpretations of the Pandemic
Various aspects of society and everyday life have become affected by the clampdown on the Coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions…
Manjana Sold - Apr082020
The COVID Conspiracy Files
The world is now four months into the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant infodemic. Though efforts have been made to…
Marc-André Argentino - Apr062020
Cumulative Extremism Online: How Moral and Strategic Aims Predict Narrative Escalation
Often when extremisms come about, they don’t occur in isolation. In the UK, for example, the emergence of extremist mobilisations…
Dr. William Allchorn - Apr032020
“War Isn’t Hell; It’s Entertainment“: The Potential Role of Video Games in Radicalisation Processes
The last years have demonstrated that extremists’ target audience has become progressively younger: in 2016 a 12-year-old was arrested in…
Linda Schlegel - Mar312020
The Visual Culture of Far-Right Terrorism
Since 2019, with the attacks in Christchurch, Poway, El Paso, Bærum and Halle, a new form of right-wing terrorism has…
Lisa Bogerts - Mar272020
Vicarious Trauma From Online Extremism Research – A Call to Action
Academic research into terrorism and online radicalisation has spiked in recent years, arguably caused, in part, by the rise of…
Dr. Michael Krona - Mar242020
What Makes Far-Right Rhetoric So Dangerous? Narratives of Imperilment as Justification of Violence
Imagine the following: Person A is constantly trying to convince person B that person C wants to kill him. He…
Holger Marcks - Mar192020
How Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia’s Message Framing Primed Its Members To Become Recruits For The Islamic State
There are a number of reasons why Tunisians joined the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria, and Libya. One underappreciated aspect…
Aaron Zelin - Mar162020
The Globalisation of Right-Wing Copycat Attacks
The World Wide Web unites the world by connecting people from far off places. From Norway to New Zealand, across…
Friederike Wegener - Mar132020
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The Coronavirus and Islamic State Supporters Online
As the world focuses on the spread and containment of the coronavirus (COVID-19), statements on the virus are also appearing…
Chelsea Daymon - Mar092020
Pilgrimage to the Platform: The Repeat Audience for ‘Muslim News’
‘Baqiyya’ The audience of the Islamic State-affiliated Muslim News platform is in the parlance of the group — “baqiyya,” or…
Moustafa Ayad - Mar052020
The Temporal Evolution of a Far-Right Forum
Radical message boards, large- and small-scale social media platforms, and other Internet fringes are thought to have played a role…
Isabelle van der Vegt - Mar022020
YouTube’s Role as a Platform for Extremism
YouTube is a hugely important platform via which individuals – in particular adolescents – access information about topics of everyday…
Till Baaken - Feb282020
Abdullah el Faisal’s Persistent Screed
Ideas never die. At no point does this age old maxim seem more relevant than in the age of the…
Raffaello Pantucci - Feb262020
How Terrorists Use the Internet for Weapons and Component Procurement
When Salman Abedi was buying material to build the bomb he would use to attack the Ariana Grande concert in…
Jessica Davis - Feb242020
Far-Right Terrorism is Global, but Coverage is Not: Hindu Nationalist Violence in India
Last week brought news of a tragic event in Germany with a right-wing terrorist attack in the city of Hanau.…
Dr. Eviane Leidig - Feb202020
Hiding in Plain Site: Islamic State’s ‘Muslim News’
Salafi-jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and Islamic State thrive in ungoverned spaces. Mali is no exception. And neither is its domain…
Moustafa Ayad - Feb172020
Points, Rankings & Raiding the Sorcerer’s Dungeon: Top-down and Bottom-up Gamification of Radicalisation and Extremist Violence
The research on gamification, defined as “the use of game elements in non-gaming contexts” usually aimed at facilitating a desirable…
Linda Schlegel - Feb132020
Online Extremism in Latin America- An Overview
A look at the landscape of online extremism in Latin America stands to add to our overall understanding of this…
Dr. Alexis Henshaw - Feb102020
Shooting for Impact: Google‘s €10 Million Investment in Countering Online Extremism
What can we do to make our communities and citizens safe from online hate speech and extremist propaganda? At the…
Alexander von Rosenbach - Feb062020
Islamic State Adjusts Strategy to Remain on Telegram
Could Islamic State’s next digital home be…. Telegram? Over the past few months a sustained operation led by EU law…
Raphael Gluck - Feb042020
Accelerationism in America: Threat Perceptions
Accelerationism is an ideologically agnostic doctrine of violent and non-violent actions taken to exploit contradictions intrinsic to a political system…
Jade Parker - Jan312020
The Ukrainian Conflict: Foreign Volunteers and Online Identity Formation
Despite its local context, the conflict in Ukraine has attracted large numbers of foreign volunteers with estimates from 2014-2019 of…
Chelsea Daymon - Jan292020
The Yazidi Genocide: We Are Listening
On 3 August 2014, Islamic State swept across the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq in a bid to expand its…
Gina Vale - Jan202020
Incels
In recent years there has been a growing concern from people who have identified as ‘incel’ (involuntarily celibate) due to…
Joana Cook - Jan172020
Technology and the Swarm: A Dialogic Turn in Online Far-Right Activism
Earlier this week, the outgoing director general of the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, Sir Andrew Parker, suggested that technology was…
Dr. William Allchorn - Dec312019
Communication strategy by the Iraq’s religious authorities
Communication strategy by the Iraq’s religious authorities vis-à-vis countering violent extremism and the treatment of Islamic State combatants and their…
Inna Rudolf