extremism

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Legislation and Law Enforcement Practices in the OSCE area: Main tendencies in the Fighting of Extremism, 2018-20

September 9, 2021

Sometime ago, an international team of authors, as part of the work of my European Centre for Democracy Development, completed a major project to monitor manifestations of xenophobia and extremism…

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14 min

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Can individual Radical-Right Extremism be cured?

September 1, 2021

One of the enduring expectations of the counter-extremism ‘movement’ (whether governmental, policing, agency, academic, civil society or activist) is that, with sustained and targeted effort, it is both necessary and…

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4 min

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The perils of studying far-right extremism must be surmounted

June 8, 2021

On 20 April, the UK government banned the US-based neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division. Home secretary Priti Patel said she was taking action “to protect young and vulnerable people from being radicalised”. Recent statistics from…

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5 min

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Is pandemic isolation pushing people towards extremism?

May 25, 2021

While the UK and, indeed, most of Europe has been under some form of lockdown over the last 12 months, there has been growing discussion about the detrimental effects of…

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8 min

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Radical-Right Recruitment (Part I): A Proposal to Enhance Conceptual Clarity

May 17, 2021

Lede: In this first part of a two part series, Senior Fellow Dr Mario Peucker discusses the nature of radical-right recruitment and the different strategies on the spectrum of directed…

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5 min

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We Can’t Combat Extremism Without Also Combating Misogyny

May 14, 2021

As all eyes have shifted – at least in Western security communities – towards the growing threat of radical right extremism and terrorism. It is becoming increasingly apparent how the different defining lines of…

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6 min

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Pandemic Poses Radicalization Risks For Children

April 14, 2021

Despite the fact that there has been a steady increase in radicalization among minors in the last few years, COVID-19 has exacerbated the situation. This is in part due to lockdown restrictions,…

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4 min

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Ten Factors that Encourage Extremism

April 6, 2021

1. Impunity. Extremism flourishes wherever illegal words and actions are not penalised and censored. Extremism grows incrementally through gradual radicalisation, as major infractions follow minor ones that remain unpunished. Extremism…

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5 min

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How the German far Right appropriates ideals of non-violent resistance

April 2, 2021

Pegida, the largest far-Right movement in Germany, was founded in Dresden in 2014 under the name ‘Peaceful Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident’. The group has regularly mobilised thousands of supporters for what…

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5 min

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The White Supremacist Insurgency Was Always America’s Biggest Threat

April 1, 2021

On March 8, a task force that was convened to make recommendations to improve congressional security after the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill proposed establishing a permanent military presence…

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Categories

Legislation and Law Enforcement Practices in the OSCE area: Main tendencies in the Fighting of Extremism, 2018-20

Can individual Radical-Right Extremism be cured?

The perils of studying far-right extremism must be surmounted

Is pandemic isolation pushing people towards extremism?

Radical-Right Recruitment (Part I): A Proposal to Enhance Conceptual Clarity

We Can’t Combat Extremism Without Also Combating Misogyny

Pandemic Poses Radicalization Risks For Children

Ten Factors that Encourage Extremism

How the German far Right appropriates ideals of non-violent resistance

The White Supremacist Insurgency Was Always America’s Biggest Threat

How can we prevent acts of violence such as the mass shooting in Plymouth?

Third Rome: Will Russia Save Europe From Itself?

The Dangers of France’s New Radical Right Conspiracist Guru: The case of Mia Montemaggi and the Conspiracy theorist Rémy Daillet-Wiedemann

The FBI’s 2020 Hate Crime Report Shows 12-Year High, But Spotlights Underreporting

Profile of Austrian Nazi and Holocaust perpetrator, Odilo Globocnik