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Posts tagged with ‘P/CVE’

  • Aug112023

    Cults and Online Violent Extremism: Individual Risk Assessments 

    This series of Insights draws on the GNET report by Inform: ‘Cults and Online Violent Extremism’. Inform are an independent…

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  • Jul032023

    Falling Through the Cracks: Gender Bias in Online Counter-Terrorism and Prevention

    Introduction In Orientalism (1978), the book that shaped post-colonial studies, Edward Said tried to understand how and why colonised countries…

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  • May032023

    The Internet Consortium for Online Safety: How Collaborative Tech, Not Legislation, Could Prevent Harmful Content Proliferation

    Introduction Countering violent extremism (CVE) in a digital context sees practitioners grappling with the enterprise of removing terrorist and violent…

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  • Mar102023

    Can ‘Cyberterrorism’ Really Exist in Africa?

    Introduction Since the 1990s and the end of the Cold War, Africa has experienced a strong upward trend in ICT…

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  • Feb272023

    Trends in Terrorist Use of the Internet in 2022 

    Terrorists were resilient online in 2022 and have continued to adapt their methods to ensure content remains available, such as…

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  • Feb242023

    Technochauvinism and Online Extremism

    Introduction In recent years, we’ve witnessed the continued rise of technochauvinism and its sibling phenomena, ‘techno-solutionism’, which gained notoriety as…

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  • Feb202023

    Assessing the Impact of 3D-Printed Weapons on the Violent Extremist Milieu

    Introduction  In October 2022, British police raided a suspected gun factory in northwest London, which was found to be producing…

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  • Feb092023

    Preventing Extremism through Storytelling and Gaming

    On 2 February 2023, GNET and the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN) hosted a webinar on ‘Preventing Extremism through…

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  • Jan162023

    The Internet and Radicalisation Pathways: Technological Advances, Mental Health and the Role of Attackers

    Introduction In recent years, one of the primary concerns for policymakers and practitioners working in the field of counterterrorism has…

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  • Jan122023

    Offline and Online Gender-Based Violence: Extremism Risk Assessment Tools and the Rise of the Incel Rebellion     

    Introduction In recent years, there have been increasing instances of online hate and gender-based violence against women. Reports of involuntary…

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