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Can new educational reforms in Ukraine be seen as a tool for forced assimilation of national minorities?

Introduction The crisis in Ukraine has several aspects. One of the most important problems is the issue of language. The law “on education”, adopted in 2017, as well as the…

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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…

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The Risks of Online Radicalization in the COVID-19 Era

Within the span of a few weeks, the social and academic lives of over 91% of the world’s youth have been completely upended, as 1.5 billion students’ schools have closed, leading…

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Zoom-Bombing and the Far-Right’s Latest Assault on College Communities

For the modern far right in America, higher education is a major battleground. Whether as targets for hate or as potential recruiting grounds, college campuses have consistently been on the…

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In Spain, A Perversion Of Textbooks To Fit Political Objectives

Education is being used as a dividing instrument as various political coalitions seek to distort curriculums to fit their agendas. Last 5th September, on the eve of the beginning of…

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Pandering To The Far Right Is No Way To Counter Them

Placating radical right rhetoric will not stop the EDL, Pegida and the rest of the angry acronym brigade. If you want a definition of not being able to see the…

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Asking Too Much of Holocaust Education

If we assume that autumn 1941 saw the beginning of the systematic murder of the Jews of Europe, then this year we mark 78 years since the onset of the…

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Is the Latvian Government About to Settle the “Russian Issue”?

In Latvia, the Russian linguistic minority is faced with a choice — either accept the rules of the nationalist game or emigrate. On April 2, 2018, Latvian President Raimonds Vējonis signed amendments to the education…

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Mapping the Malleability of British Values

British values are often comically referred to as the need for orderly queues, a respect for the Queen and cucumber sandwiches with pots of tea, or for one of my…

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UK Prevent: Building Resilience to Radicalisation through Critical Thinking

“Schools should be safe spaces in which children and young people can understand and discuss sensitive topics, including terrorism and the extremist ideas that are part of terrorist ideology, and…

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Can new educational reforms in Ukraine be seen as a tool for forced assimilation of national minorities?

The Prevent Duty in Education

Zoom-Bombing and the Far-Right’s Latest Assault on College Communities

In Spain, A Perversion Of Textbooks To Fit Political Objectives

Pandering To The Far Right Is No Way To Counter Them

Asking Too Much of Holocaust Education

Is the Latvian Government About to Settle the “Russian Issue”?

Mapping the Malleability of British Values

UK Prevent: Building Resilience to Radicalisation through Critical Thinking

US Buffalo Shooting: The Depressing Predictability of Far-Right Terrorism and How to Stop It

Nasser Kurdy and David Tucker. A Reply to Hate: Forgiving My Attacker. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2021.

Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler. Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

CARR Reform Statement

Webinar Series: The Future of Ideologies (Michael Freeden)