Contextual
Resources

Once a government or tech company develops a definition of terrorism or violent extremism, it can be difficult to know how to apply these definitions to the variety of ways that terrorism and violent extremism manifests internationally and across online spaces.

This section of the site aims to highlight contextual resources on themes related to applying definitions to the online space.  GIFCT funds the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) to bring forward actionable insights from experts and practitioners around the world to better inform and give context to tech companies, governments, practitioners and other stakeholders in this field. Insights are curated here under context-based themes.

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CT Efforts/Positive Interventions

Counterterrorism and counter-extremism campaigns and interventions online have evolved in recent years. These efforts aim to intervene in processes of radicalization, deplatform known extremist networks, redirect users to counterspeech content and positive alternatives, or direct users to resources that can help them disengage from violent extremist networks. International academics have been evolving the intervention space to discuss measurement and evaluation of these campaigns and programs, as well as looking to the future in assessing where interventions can evolve and innovate.

  • 30th September 2021
    “He Looks Like a Clown”: Why is the Far-Right Mocking Fascists on Reddit?
    Barbara Molas
  • 29th September 2021
    Exposing Terror, Building Resilience: Harnessing Citizen Journalists and Social Media to Confront Terrorism
    Omar Mohammed
  • 23rd September 2021
    From Direct Action to Terrorism: Canadian Radical Right Narratives and Counter-Narratives at a Time of Volatility
    Dr. William Allchorn
  • 11th August 2021
    The ‘4M Way’ to Promoting Alternative Narratives to Violent Islamist Extremism in Muslim Mindanao
    Dr. Kumar Ramakrishna, Dr. Yusuf Roque Santos Morales and Sheryl Renomeron-Morales
  • 04th August 2021
    Current Priorities in Counterterrorism and Prevention: Results of the CENS Online Expert Survey
    Cameron Sumpter
  • 30th July 2021
    Safety vs Security: An Asymmetrical Opportunity for RWE in Australia
    Dr. Teagan Westendorf
  • 29th July 2021
    The Race War May No Longer Be Digitised: James Mason’s Designation as a Terrorist Entity in Canada
    Dr. Bethan Johnson and Professor Matthew Feldman
  • 26th July 2021
    When Counter-Speech Backfires: The Pitfalls of Strategic Online Interaction
    Maik Fielitz and Holger Marcks
  • 21st July 2021
    Schrems II and the Future of 3rd Party Security Service Access to Data From the UK
    Dr. Victoria McCloud

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