This pack aims to help youth workers to increase their understanding of the issues and their awareness of the complexities. It must be emphasised that this pack – just like any other resource – does not have all the answers. Extremism and radicalisation, and how they impact on young people,…
Magnanville, 13 June, 2016, around 8pm: policeman, Jean-Baptiste Salvaing has been stabbed to death outside his home. Forcing his way into the house, the attacker murders Jessica Schneider, who also worked for the police, by cutting her throat. The couple’s three year-old son is taken hostage by the killer, Larossi…
Reported herein are two complementary pieces of research on online behaviours of convicted UK terrorists and attack plotters, one large scale and based on open source data (n=223) and another
A Ramadan commercial that highlights acts of terrorism and their consequences, featuring victims of terrorism from Kuwait, Jordan and the greater Middle East. The main character of the commercial is attempting a suicide attack, but is faced with the people and faces of those victims and potential victims. The commercial…
This article reviews some of the milestones of thinking about political radicalization, as scholars and security officials struggled after 9/11 to discern the precursors of terrorist violence. Recent criticism of the concept of radicalization has been recognized, leading to a 2-pyramids model that responds to the criticism by separating radicalization…
This study, contracted by Search for Common Ground (SFCG), is a baseline evaluation for the two-year project “’Inuka!”: Community-Led Security Approaches to Violent Extremism in Coastal Kenya,” being implemented in four counties: Kilifi, Kwale, Lamu and Mombasa in the coastal region of Kenya since September 2016.
South Asia continues to remains a hotbed of various forms of extremism. Indiscriminate violent terrorism with a strong religious overtone claims the highest number of victims, most notably in Pakistan and India. Islamist Jihadi movements backed by external actors keep the state of Jammu and Kashmir on a boil. Globally…
Abundant natural resources, swathes of unprotected territory and porous borders make resource extraction an attractive source of wealth for opportunistic extremist groups in Africa – most notably al-Shabaab, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Janjaweed militia. This policy insight paper outlines the extent to which each group is engaged…
This research shows the role of social media as a means of disseminating and consuming radical ideologies and narratives in the Kyrgyz Republic (KR). The term “social media” refers not only to the Internet, but also to mobile phone technologies where various mobile applications (or messengers) are actively used to…
The Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations (hereinafter – Bulan Institute) is a non-governmental organization whose activities are aimed at preventing conflicts and threats to security in Central Asia. The head office of the Institute is located in Bishkek; there is also a small office of an international representation in Geneva….
This Research Paper explores the so-called Islamic State’s use of suicide tactics over the course of 12 months – from 1 December 2015 to 30 November 2016. It uses an exhaustive sample of the group’s suicide operation reports as a window into the tactical and strategic underpinnings of its martyrdom…
In March 2017, UNDP commissioned an assessment of returned foreign terrorist fighters, currently serving their sentences in Kosovo1, either in prison or under house arrest, as well as their families. The objective of this research assessment is to understand better the pull and push factors that make Kosovars join foreign…
