Germany Has Stepped Up Its Efforts Combating Right-Wing Extremism
Angela Merkel’s fourth cabinet will be remembered for a number of reasons. Not only due to the fact that its formation took surprisingly long or because it was the last…
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How The US Could Rethink Counter-Extremism Programs
After the violent culmination to years of increasingly polarized and extreme political rhetoric on 6 January at the United States Capitol, it is easy to look at the worst aspects…
Can Community Engagement Counter The Radical Right?
Recently I was grateful for the opportunity to participate in an online CARR panel that asked a very searching question, one that as a Prevent Coordinator I’ve asked myself many…
Tackling Online Radicalization At Its Offline Roots
You would be forgiven for thinking that the advent of Covid-19 and the accompanying lockdowns have led to the mass radicalization of our youth, consigned to cyberspace, and exposed to…
Treating white men as a new suspect community is not the answer
This article is part of a debate on Countering the Radical Right inviting people to answer the question: “should we be worried about white men?” There is no doubt that a recent…
The Prevent Duty in Education
As the launch of CARR’s new Counter-Extremism Research Unit comes ever closer, I am pleased to use this space to announce one of our upcoming events that launches the first…
New ISD Study – Networked hate: White Supremacist activity on Telegram
A new study by London-based counter-extremism organisation, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), looks at the connections between white supremacist and pro-terrorist channels on Telegrams. In this CARR insights piece,…
Countering the radical right, back to basics
If you think the answer to the rise in the radical right threat lies in counter-terrorism and/or counter-extremism policies, you are looking in the wrong place. In a recent interview,…
Conversation with an Imam: being Muslim in Post-Brexit UK
With the anniversary of the Christchurch Mosque attack approaching, and following Brexit, is the Muslim community in the UK living in fear? s the United Kingdom faces a post-Brexit reality…
Why the next terror manifesto could be even harder to track
Just before his shooting spree at two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques, the alleged mass murderer posted a hate-filled manifesto on several file-sharing sites, and emailed the document to at least…