The UK extremism threat landscape is undergoing fundamental shifts, marked by a growing number of decentralised online networks and hybridised ideologies rather than formalised groups. Yet current response frameworks struggle to address individuals who do not fit stable ideological categories. The evolving threat demands fundamental recalibration of approaches to mitigating…
GIFCT’s 2024 Annual and Transparency Report highlighted a year of expanded membership, welcoming six new platforms and bringing its total to 33. The report noted seven activations of the Incident Response Framework, the growth of the hash-sharing database to over 408,000 items, the development of the Membership Advisory Program (MAP),…
In an era marked by unprecedented speed, scale, and sophistication in the creation and dissemination of information, the ability to critically engage with that information has become essential for safeguarding public trust, democratic discourse and individual autonomy. Media and information literacy (MIL) stands as a foundational response to this challenge,…
Adopting an atmospheric lens on the everyday and open-ended crisis of contemporary terror threats in cities in Western Europe, this article unpicks the contemporary logics, desires, and effects of the State in matters of urban counterterrorism by exploring the felt qualities and dispositions of the public around Hostile Vehicle Mitigation…
Within one week of April in 2024, the city of Sydney was rocked by two separate violent stabbing attacks. In one case, after the stabbing of two Coptic clerics by a young Muslim man, politicians and the media were quick to establish that this was a terrorist attack. In the…
The spread of online hate and disinformation can be considered one of the biggest global threats to democratic societies. Recently, research on counterspeech—forms of communication that respond to harmful speech, refuting and challenging its contents and mitigating its harms—has proliferated within scholarship and initiatives by social media platforms. In this…
The report by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) reveals terrorists’ persistent ability to exploit the international financial system to support their activities and carry out attacks, and warns of gaps in countries’ abilities to fully understand terrorism financing (TF) trends and thus respond effectively. With the TF methods varying…
Music, in different forms, has historically supported far-right movements. Today, however, as a result of digitalization and fragmentation, there are a wide variety of music styles which are both engaged with and used among far-right movements. This article argues that ideas around masculinism are central to music’s appeal in the…
Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories pose growing challenges to educators worldwide. This study explores how education can help citizens embrace beneficial ideas while resisting those that are harmful. Using data from 7,000 respondents across seven European countries, it applies Latent Profile Analysis and Factor Mixture Modelling to examine how the…
The nexus between migration and terrorism is a contentious subject. Attacks conducted by immigrants or by terrorists infiltrated within migration flows have raised legitimate concerns among the population and policy-makers. Yet, reductive narratives and political ideology have resulted in a simplistic and biased perception of this phenomenon. As a result,…
The European Union (EU) Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (EU TE-SAT) is a situational overview, presenting key figures and developments within the terrorism landscape in the EU. The EU TE-SAT report is published on a yearly basis, with the purpose of informing policymakers, law enforcement and the wider public. It…
Far right extremist groups keep emerging and attempt to create online coalitions relying on Telegram’s permissive stance towards terrorist and extremist content. This trend created the new ecosystem on Telegram known as Terrorgram, a set of Telegram channels, communal chats, and individual accounts that subscribe to, or promote neo-Nazism, militant accelerationism,…
