Institute for Strategic DialogueBeyond Extremism: Platform Responses to Online Subcultures of Nihilistic Violence
Read moreSubcultures of nihilistic violence have emerged as a central threat, targeting and manipulating young people online. The Institute for Strategic…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Valdemar BalleThe Nordic Front of ‘764’: Trends, Drivers, and Countering Youth Exploitation and Radicalisation
Read moreThis Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Addressing Youth Radicalization and Mobilization. GIFCT Working Groups bring…
Munira MustaffaCosplaying Columbine: How Memetic Violence Transformed Southeast Asia’s Extremist Threat
Read moreThe 7 November 2025 attack at Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri 72 (SMAN 72) in North Jakarta represents a troubling manifestation…
Joe OndrakParticipatory Memetic Violence: Legend, Ostension, and Ideologically Diffuse Violence
Read moreFolk studies are not a source of analysis often used in the P/CVE space. However, the field is littered with…
Kye AllenYou Talkin’ to Me? Algorithmic Mirrors and Chatbot Radicalisation
Read moreIn his latest assessment to Parliament, Jonathan Hall KC, the UK Government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warns of the…
Dr Yannick Veilleux-LepageSymbols and Scripts: Firearms as Artefacts of Extremist Violence
Read moreOn 10 September 2025, in Orem, Utah, right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed. Investigators later reported that…
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