Congress charged the U.S. Institute of Peace with convening the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States. Following the public launch of the Task Force’s final report, four groups of experts came together to discuss how to implement the report’s recommendations. This four-part series will discuss the findings from these…
Far-right extremism is widespread in the Western Balkans and exists in both mainstream political parties and extremist groups and individuals. Most of the literature focuses on Serbian nationalist groups, but far-right groups are also present in Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia. While their precise aims differ, far-right…
This briefing outlines research uncovering thousands of users viewing extremist content in Arabic language across mainstream social platforms including Facebook and YouTube.
The research series Hate Speech and Radicalisation on the Internet provides interdisciplinary insights into the current developments of extremist activities on the internet. With the aid of expert contributions from all over Germany, the psychological, political, anthropological and technological aspects of online hate speech and radicalisation will be considered and…
The rise of coordinated attacks on the foundations of liberal democracy continue unabated across Europe. In the United Kingdom, fringe groups and ideologues continue to challenge the government and the tech sector as they promote xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and extremism. By doing so, they continue to inflame community tensions and…
Telegram, an online instant messaging service popular among adherents of the Islamic State (IS), remains vital to the organization’s ecosystem of communications. The platform’s functional affordances, paired with relatively lax enforcement of Telegram’s terms of service (ToS), offers IS sympathizers a user-friendly medium to engage with like-minded supporters and content….
On 9 January 2019, the Presidency sent out a questionnaire on policies for preventing and countering radicalisation in prisons (CM 1068/19), in order to establish an overview of the existing policies and strategies implemented by Member States and the relevant support measures and challenges that need an efficient response, and…
Herman J. Cohen is the former assistant secretary of state for African affairs (1989–1993), the former U.S. ambassador to the Gambia and Senegal (1977–80), and was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service for thirty-eight years. You can find his blog here. While the Sudanese military expelled President Omar al-Bashir from…
Violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (VERLT) are transnational challenges which are not restricted to any nationality, ethnicity, religion, ideology or gender. The unpredictable and evolving nature of these threats makes them difficult to prevent and counter. The OSCE participating States have been unequivocal in their condemnation of…
The overall objective of this study is to identify and explore the ideological drivers of radicalization in Albania by analyzing the process of Albanian religious revival and the reestablishment of the religious infrastructure and institutions. This study sheds light on the encompassing social, political, and economic factors that fueled the…
Objektivi i përgjithshëm i këtij studimi është të identifikojë dhe të eksplorojë faktorët nxitës ideologjikë të radikalizmit në Shqipëri duke analizuar procesin e ringjalljes fetare shqiptare dhe rimëkëmbjen e infrastrukturës dhe institucioneve fetare. Ky studim hedh dritë mbi faktorët socialë, politikë dhe ekonomikë që i dhanë një shtysë procesit të…
This briefing brings together the observations of a coalition of organisation who monitored the 2019 European Parliamentary Elections to identify distortion, disruption or interference campaigns and the technology companies response to them. You can read more about ISD’s work monitoring the 2019 EU Elections in our interim report, published 24th…
