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,…

The proliferation of extremist ideologies across digital platforms has created an urgent need for scalable counter-narrative strategies that can match the volume and sophistication of contemporary propaganda efforts. This article examines the potential of artificial intelligence-generated podcasts and radio programs as transformative tools for countering radicalisation, propaganda, and disinformation, with…

As the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) grows across all sectors of society, this Hedayah research brief on “Artificial Intelligence for Counter Extremism’, examines how AI may be responsibly leveraged to support terrorism prevention efforts. The repot underlines that while terrorist exploitation of AI remains largely experimental at present, it…

Incels are a group of people who mobilize around their inability to form romantic and/or sexual relationships. Their mobilization has been linked to online misogyny and violent acts of terrorism. This article explores discourses around gender equality and sexual rights on the extremist forum incels.is. We approach these discourses through…

This conference report summarises the discussions at a roundtable covering online hate speech and discriminatory rhetoric and the implications of AI in their spread and amplification. The closed-door roundtable took place on 31 March 2025, and included both presentations across three sessions and participants from academia, civil society, advocacy groups,…

This article argues that the general principle that there is an explanatory split between cognitive radicalization and behavioral radicalization does not hold. It first sketches the principle and the evidence adduced in favour of it. The first major problem with the principle is that it is based merely on evidence…

The intentional spread of false or misleading information to inflict harm, commonly referred to as disinformation, raises unprecedented challenges in today’s digital age. This phenomenon becomes even more concerning when strategically leveraged by violent extremist actors to disseminate hateful narratives, incite violence, and recruit followers. While both disinformation and violent…