An online platform designed to disseminate a 500-page fatwa issued by prominent scholar Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri to undermine the religious justifications for violent extremism.

This document is a product of the Clean IT project and was published in January 2013. It reflects the combined views of the participants as a whole on how to reduce terrorist use of the Internet. Individual participants or the organizations they represent do not necessarily agree with all parts…

The RecoRa programme emerged from an EU-funded project ‘Recognising and Responding to Radicalisation’ which explored the factors that restrict front line workers from proactively engaging in work to prevent violent extremism, and aims to embed expertise on recognising and responding to ideologically based violence within and across government agencies and…

The Oslo Conference on Right-wing Extremism and Hate Crime: Minorities under Pressure in Europe and Beyond was held on May 14-15 2013 under the auspices of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Against a background of rising concern about xenophobic trends, exclusivist ideologies, and crimes committed against minorities, the conference…

It is now accepted that talks with the Taliban will form some part of the ISAF/NATO strategy for bringing down troop levels in Afghanistan. It is unclear, however, about what that means in practice. Much has been written about the issue of ‘talking to terrorists’ and there are numerous examples…

While the use of the internet and social media as a tool for extremists and terrorists has been well documented, understanding the mechanisms at work has been much more elusive. This paper begins with a grounded theory approach guided by a new theoretical approach to power that utilizes both terrorism…

This National Security Strategy (the Strategy) is Australia’s first. It provides an overarching framework for our national security efforts, and sets priorities for the next five years. The Strategy is an important next step following the 2008 National Security Statement, which articulated Australia’s national security agenda and set in motion…

This report presents the findings of a pilot demonstration project of the Center on Global Counter Terrorism Cooperation (CGCC) titled “Assessing Community Attitudes Towards Violent Extremism and the Impact of International Prevention Programming,” undertaken in Kenya and Somaliland. In accordance with the core objectives of the project, this report offers…

Following the intervention of the Kenya Defence Forces in Somalia in October 2011 in reaction to the increase in kidnappings on the Kenyan coast, the threat of terrorism in Kenya increased considerably. Initially the perception was that the threat originated from Somalia and that Somali nationals or Somali-Kenyans consequently committed…

This document provides a transcription of the opening remarks by the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Lamberto Zannier at the Conference on ‘Preventing Terrorism through Countering Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Europe’ in Budapest, Hungary from 29-30 May 2013.

This report assesses the impact of the military-led response to extremist violence on PATA’s security, society and economy. It identifies measures to strengthen the state’s writ and to reverse the tide of religious militancy. It is based on extensive field research, including interviews with police officials, lawyers, human rights activists,…

The OSCE participating States committed themselves to protect and respect human rights in the fight against terrorism as early as the Madrid Meeting in 1983. This approach reflects the OSCE comprehensive and cross-dimensional concept of security, which recognizes that security goes beyond politico-military issues to fully encompass economic, environmental and…