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The perils of studying far-right extremism must be surmounted

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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Radical Right Extremists And The Quantum Arms Race

The next generation of the internet will rely on revolutionary new quantum technology – allowing for unhackable networks and exponentially faster computers. In the hands of an adversary, these quantum…

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Resilience and vulnerabilities: Responding to radical-right mobilisation on the local level

Introduction A myriad of research has been conducted in recent years on radical-right messaging online, but what has attracted only limited empirical attention is how radical-right dynamics play out offline…

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Countering the Radical Right in the UK: Personal and Professional Experiences of Radical Right Extremism

Following the arrest of one of its UK based followers last year, an organisation described by the Home Secretary as a “vile white supremacist group” that targeted young and vulnerable…

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Moving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online

Over the past decade and a half, counter-narratives – defined as ‘messages that…[demystify], deconstruct or delegitimise extremist narratives’ (Tuck and Silverman 2016: 65) – have become a key part of…

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Personal reflections from a woman in the extremist underground

Within the radical right, men have always out-numbered women; I was one of those women for five years of my life. In 2012 I began disengaging from the extremist underground…

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Technology and the Swarm: A Dialogic Turn in Online Far-Right Activism

Earlier this week, the outgoing director general of the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, Sir Andrew Parker, suggested that technology was one of the biggest challenges facing the UK’s Security Services. Sir Andrew…

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5 Ways Policymakers Should Combat The Radical Right In 2020

With radical right extremism on the rise globally, here are 5 ways that we should think about combating it based on policy lessons from the United Kingdom. In a year…

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“Right” roads to “pluralism”

Cultural integration, pluralism, and multiculturalism (sometimes termed “mosaics” or “melting pots”) have been largely studied as processes of democratization, one whereby ethnic confrontation is reduced through tolerance and cooperation. The…

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Behind Norway’s terrorist attack that was luckily thwarted

Has the Norwegian police learned anything from its failure in the 2011 Breivik attacks? A recent terror attack at a mosque near Oslo raises important questions about the extent and…

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