Violent extremism has been growing in Tajikistan, together with women’s engagement with it. It poses a threat to security and stability, and threatens to undermine the progress towards peace that the country has made since the Civil War which ended in 1997. Trends are most evident in urban and semiurban…
The Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism (CETS No. 196) makes a number of acts, including taking part in an association or group for the purpose of terrorism, receiving terrorist training, travelling abroad for the purposes of terrorism and financing or organising travel for…
Many young Muslims are growing up feeling pressured that they need to justify they are safe members of the community, writes Clarke Jones. They want to be treated as equal citizens rather than members of ‘suspect communities’. We need better-designed programs that properly engage communities and acknowledge the underlying issues…
CEP’s country reports detail the history of extremist movements, major terror attacks, and counter-extremism measures. Reports include information on radicalization and foreign fighters, extremism and terrorist movements, and domestic and international counter-extremism initiatives.
Some methods for countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) are missing the mark and in certain cases doing more harm than good, including by hampering efforts to prevent violent extremism (PVE)….
CEP threat reports detail the history, violent activities, designations, associations, and rhetoric of extremist organizations.
CEP’s country reports detail the history of extremist movements, major terror attacks, and counter-extremism measures. Reports include information on radicalization and foreign fighters, extremism and terrorist movements, and domestic and international counter-extremism initiatives.
CEP’s country reports detail the history of extremist movements, major terror attacks, and counter-extremism measures. Reports include information on radicalization and foreign fighters, extremism and terrorist movements, and domestic and international counter-extremism initiatives.
CEP threat reports detail the history, violent activities, designations, associations, and rhetoric of extremist organizations.
In a March 2017 paper published by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism—The Hague, this author introduced a framework for studying the construction of extremist identity through ideological texts. This Report will examine the framework against a historical example of the so-called Islamic State (IS) propaganda to illustrate how messaging strategies…
Official text of the Ashgabat Declaration on strengthening regional collaboration to counter-terrorism in Central Asia between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Editor’s Note: Community and civil-society programs to counter violent extremism (commonly referred to as “CVE”) seem to have fallen out of favor under a Trump administration that wants to look tough on terrorism. Perhaps more surprisingly, voices on the left of the spectrum also seem to believe CVE programs are…
