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Two years on, we’re still failing the victims of the El Paso massacre

Two years ago today, a lone 21-year-old white man walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and opened fire. Shortly beforehand, he had posted a sick justification online, as so many…

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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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Right-Wing Extremist Manifestos Create A Blueprint For Transnational Terrorism

The Right-Wing Terrorist Threat Picture & Criteria for a Fifth Wave On February 22, 2021, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of the “transnational threat” posed by white supremacism and neo-Nazi ideologies,…

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

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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We Can’t Combat Extremism Without Also Combating Misogyny

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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“My grandpa was murdered in a concentration camp, my daughter shot in Hanau.”- The role of Nazi ideology in radical right terror in contemporary Germany

On 19 February 2021, Germany commemorated the anniversary of the right-wing terror attack in Hanau, in which Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel…

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What can former right-wing extremists tell us about radicalization and counter-radicalization?

In the past five years, it has become increasingly common for practitioners and policymakers to draw from the insights of former right-wing extremists (RWEs) to generate knowledge on – and…

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The New Face of Terror in the US

When the FBI arrested five senior members of the Neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Divison early in 2020, it seemed that the terror cell was on its last legs. Under sustained pressure from law enforcement, effective…

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The Multifaceted Threats Of The Radical Right

In a recent Safety Science article, George Boustras and I identify five main non-mutually exclusive and often overlapping ‘security’ categories: Political, economic and military threats: enemy states, armed conflict, revolution, insurgency, cyber-attacks,…

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