radicalisation

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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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8 min

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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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14 min

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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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7 min

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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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6 min

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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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6 min

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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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7 min

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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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4 min

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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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5 min

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Is pandemic isolation pushing people towards extremism?

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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5 min

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

Lede: In this second part of a two part series, Senior Fellow Dr Mario Peucker discusses the nature of radical-right recruitment in relation to ideologically explicit versus ideologically covert strategies…

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

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?

Why The Radical Right Exploits Games As Tools For Radicalization

The Radical Right Is Targeting Neurodivergent Groups

How The Far Right Is Going Liquid

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

The perils of studying far-right extremism must be surmounted

Is pandemic isolation pushing people towards extremism?

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

Tucker Carlson Is The Most Dangerous Anchor In America

An Exception no more: Identifying the origins of the radical-right appeal, the case of Chega in Portugal

Germany Has Stepped Up Its Efforts Combating Right-Wing Extremism

Eric Zemmour’s Plan to Save France from Extinction