Drawing on field-work in Europe and interviews with senior European defence league members, this report details how the English Defence League (EDL) and its partners have created pan-European umbrella groups through which they coordinate marches and campaigns, and transfer knowledge and tactics. It explores the way in which the movement…

This report synthesizes a rapid review of the literature on women and violent extremism, looking at women’s roles in violent extremist groups and acts over the last 15 years, and at the relationship between violent extremism and violence against women and girls.

This report, sponsored by the Center for Conflict Management at the U.S. Institute of Peace, focuses on the inroads extremist narratives have made in Pakistani society. As Pakistani reactions to the attack on schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai illustrated, Islamist extremists of various types have largely succeeded in painting their worldview as…

While right-wing extremism and populist extremist parties have been the subject of growing attention in Europe and North America, the emergence of ‘counter-Jihad’ groups has been relatively neglected. Campaigning amid fiscal austerity and ongoing public concerns over immigration, these groups are more confrontational, chaotic and unpredictable than established populist extremist…

Based on an in-depth literature review, this paper explores the terms ‘radicalisation’, ‘de-radicalisation’ and ‘counter-radicalisation’ and the discourses surrounding them. Much of the literature on radicalisation focuses on Islamist extremism and jihadist terrorism. This is also reflected in this Research Paper which explores the relationship between radicalisation, extremism and terrorism….

In recent years, only limited collaboration existed between the counter-terrorism community and the development sector. With the exception of some shared rhetoric on state-building and a common focus on an instrumental use of “development”, there has been more mistrust than cooperation, and civil-military exercises have repeatedly created grave problems for…

This report presents the key findings and recommendations brought forward during two expert roundtable meetings jointly organized by the OSCE Secretariat and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and held in Vienna: Preventing Women Terrorist Radicalization, 12 December 2011, and the Role and Empowerment of Women in…

Addressing cultural representations of women’s participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo (‘years of lead’, c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy’s experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma.

This summary outlines the key takeaways from the CVE Through Communications Work stream meeting held in February 2013.

A brief from the Asian Development Bank on the context and state of civil society in the Philippines.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the largest regional security organization, with 57 participating States from Europe, Central Asia and North America. Mongolia is the latest to have joined the OSCE family in 2012. Yet, despite its size, the OSCE and its role in promoting peace,…

Terrorism has always been a battle of ideas, reflecting a desire for violent and immediate political transformation. The technologies available in a globalized world today, however, have expanded the theater of conflict into a broader swath of spaces—governed, less governed, virtual—than ever. Groups such as al-Qaida understand that they can…