As part of the evaluation of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Counterterrorism policy, the British Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) conducted a literature review to gather and assess the available knowledge about the (conditions for) effectiveness of CT and P/CVE activities. This literature review focuses on three specific categories…

This report aims at creating an index of Islamic Radicalization in Italy thanks to the data and statistics retrieved from official sources and websites, and, consequently, at finding a Model that can effectively fit this phenomenon dynamics. Given, the high number of Muslims on the Italian soil, and the lack…

This document contains the Indonesian national action plan for the years 2020-2024.

This document contains the national action plan for countering violent extremism of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2018-2022, available in Russian only.

GIFCT invests in the development and distribution of groundbreaking technological solutions to support member companies committed to preventing terrorist and violent extremists from exploiting their platforms while protecting human rights. Visit this portal to access more information on GIFCT’s hash-sharing database and URL sharing platforms for sharing “perceptual hashes” of…

As the Biden administration starts work in January, it will face a new raft of national security challenges. Counterterrorism, as with the previous three administrations, will once again be a central concern. The administration will be forced to grapple with old threats, including from the Islamic State and al-Qa`ida, as…

This paper analyses the effects of the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic on terrorism and jihadist-inspired violence throughout 2020. The study begins by identifying the short, medium, and long-term forecasts made by international experts in the initial months of the pandemic. Afterwards, it studies the incidence that the outbreak…

Social media’s role as an environment for social and political activism has become increasingly significant as right-wing movements have embraced these platforms as a medium for organization. The more extreme of those groups have seen their use of social media platforms curtailed, since the spread of their conspiracy theories and…

As the Biden administration starts work in January 2021, it will face a new raft of national security challenges. Counterterrorism, as with the previous three administrations, will once again be a central concern. The administration will be forced to grapple with old threats, including from the Islamic State and al-Qa`ida,…

Since the livestreamed terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, and various subsequent attacks following a similar modus operandi in Pittsburgh, El Paso and Halle, discussions on the ‘gamification’ of violent right-wing extremism have risen to prominence. The perpetrators livestreamed their attacks on Facebook or Twitch, mirroring “Let’s Play” videos popular…

Humour has become a central weapon of extremist movements to subvert open societies and to lower the threshold towards violence. Especially within the context of a recent wave of far-right terrorist attacks, we witness “playful” ways in communicating racist ideologies. As far-right extremists strategically merge with online cultures, their approach…

New technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular, can be extremely powerful tools, enabling big advances in medicine, information and communication technologies, marketing, transportation among many other research fields. However, they can also be used for malicious purposes when falling into the wrong hands. The scope of this report – Algorithms and…