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Radicalisation in the Military – A Pressing Issue

Recent years have seen a number of alarming cases involving currently serving soldiers and veterans engage in extreme right wing activity. In June 2020, following intelligence reports that there were…

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Why Extremism Appeals To Some Active & Former Military Members

Over the last year, since the events at the US Capitol on the 6th of January, there has been increasing scrutiny and concern around the threat of far-right extremism to and within…

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How Extremists Weaponize Community To Recruit During The Pandemic

Far-right extremism, like all forms of extremism, is driven in part by social needs deprivation. As human beings, we all have social needs. A need for a sense of identity,…

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Suppressing dissent and ignoring grievances increases risk of far-right radicalisation

Political dissent and illiberal or socially harmful expressions of angry citizenship pose a complicated challenge for liberal democratic societies. On the one hand, the political leadership and community as a…

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

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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Can individual Radical-Right Extremism be cured?

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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Why The Radical Right Exploits Games As Tools For Radicalization

In her novel Fliegeralarm (‘Air raid alarm’), German author Gisela Elsner, born in 1937, presents the pitch-black satirical story of a group of children during the last years of the Second World…

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The Radical Right Is Targeting Neurodivergent Groups

For years, researchers of the far right have studied the social and psychological factors that play a role in the radicalization of children and young individuals. Difficulty socializing and a…

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How The Far Right Is Going Liquid

How many right-wing extremists are there in Germany? Security authorities, academia, and civil society repeatedly rack their brains over this question in order to accurately assess the threat to liberal…

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The Role of Conspiratorial Narratives in the Violent Radicalisation of Right-Wing Lone Actors

Conspiracy theories have been talked about a lot recently as a key ingredient in the radicalisation of right-wing lone actor (RWLA) terrorists. To some extent, all narratives and ideological propaganda issued by…

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