El escritor norteamericano Don DeLillo, en un breve ensayado titulado En las ruinas del futuro, explica que ante el terrorismo internacional las sociedades amenazadas deben crear una “contra-narrativa” mediática que se oponga a los discursos del terror. En este artículo, se parte de esta idea y se analizan dos muestras…

This paper focuses on Jihadist radicalization in Spanish prisons.

The constructive dialogues on religion and democracy project was implemented between February 2017 and January 2020. It aimed to develop tolerance and non-violence among young people and facilitate dialogue between the government and civil society as well as religious and secular experts to advocate for wider, safer spaces for discussions…

Albania gained much international attention in recent years as an exporter of foreign fighters (FFs) and other supporters of various terrorist organizations involved in fighting throughout the war in Syria. When mapping the places of origin of violent extremists and FFs there is no even distribution throughout the country; instead…

One-third of today’s generation of youth—those ages ten to twenty-four—live in fragile or conflicted countries and are susceptible to the sway of ideological narratives of violent extremism. Evidence suggests, however, that they also play active and valuable roles as agents of positive and constructive change. Part of a USIP portfolio…

In recent years there has been the proliferation of counterradicalization programs that incorporate a case management approach involving individually tailored intervention plans. The evaluation of case-managed countering violent extremism (CVE) interventions is challenging. This article provides results from research that evaluated a custody-based case-managed intervention delivered to convicted terrorists and…

Three years after the first assessment of the phenomenon of violent extremism (VE) in Albania (Religious radicalism and violent extremism in Albania, 2015), IDM has re-examined the state of affairs through a comprehensive assessment of drivers and other factors leading to, or enabling, violent extremism at the national level. The…

The international policy excitement around preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) has faded since the latter days of the Obama presidency. However, the fundamental challenges P/CVE seeks to address have not gone away and P/CVE programs and policies continue to be developed and implemented. After more than a decade of…

This report presents the findings of a project that investigated foreign attempts to influence the 2018 Swedish elections online.

This report presents the findings from our Young Digital Leaders project which was designed to equip young people aged between 13-16 years old in Italy, Romania and Sweden with the skills they need to be safe, powerful and effective online citizens in the 21st century

Education as the primary factor in preventing all forms of racism and discrimination was the main focus of a high-level event organized by UNESCO at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly today. Through the lens of its program to prevent anti-Semitism, UNESCO sought to mobilize Member States’ commitment in the…

The most well-known ISIS terrorist atrocities in Europe, including the 2015 Paris and 2016 Brussels attacks, saw individuals who in the past had been involved in organised crime and illegal trade graduate to the ranks of the world’s most successful terrorist organisation. It is now widely assumed that Europe’s terrorists…