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Posts tagged with ‘Nihilistic Violent Extremism’

  • Jan072026

    The Jakarta Bombing: Youth Digital Radicalisation and the Urgent Need for Adaptive PCVE Responses

    This Insight analyses the digital influences, memetic behaviours, and visual-symbolic cues that underpinned the explosion that occurred on 7 November…

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  • Jan052026

    The Nordic Front of ‘764’: Trends, Drivers, and Countering Youth Exploitation and Radicalisation

    This Insight was published as part of GIFCT’s Working Group on Addressing Youth Radicalization and Mobilization. GIFCT Working Groups bring…

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  • Dec222025

    Cosplaying Columbine: How Memetic Violence Transformed Southeast Asia’s Extremist Threat

    The 7 November 2025 attack at Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri 72 (SMAN 72) in North Jakarta represents a troubling manifestation…

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  • Dec182025

    Participatory Memetic Violence: Legend, Ostension, and Ideologically Diffuse Violence

    Folk studies are not a source of analysis often used in the P/CVE space. However, the field is littered with…

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  • Dec082025

    You Talkin’ to Me? Algorithmic Mirrors and Chatbot Radicalisation

    In his latest assessment to Parliament, Jonathan Hall KC, the UK Government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warns of the…

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  • Oct082025

    Symbols and Scripts: Firearms as Artefacts of Extremist Violence

    On 10 September 2025, in Orem, Utah, right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed. Investigators later reported that…

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  • Jul182025

    Meaning Through Its Opposite: Significance Quest Theory and Nihilistic Violent Extremism

    This Insight examines groups under The Com umbrella (a catch-all name for 764 and related groups such as CVLT and…

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  • Aug162024

    “Dead society”: Tracing the Online Dimension of a Militant Accelerationist-Inspired Attack in Turkey

    Content warning: This Insight contains mentions of suicide and terrorist violence.  Introduction An assailant injured at least five people with…

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  • Jan192024

    764: The Intersection of Terrorism, Violent Extremism, and Child Sexual Exploitation

    Content warning: this Insight contains references to child sexual exploitation and violence Introduction On 12 September 2023, the FBI made…

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  • Dec082023

    Learning from the Leavers? The Promise (and Perils) of r/IncelExit 

    This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series in partnership with Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. This series…

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