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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Ideology
Ideologically motivated violent groups and movements take different forms in different parts of the world. In a post-9/11 framework, and particularly since the rise of ISIS, most terrorist studies and counter-extremism work have focussed on Islamist extremist groups. However, we also see modern trends of groups associated with white supremacy and neo-Naziism, misogyny-based violent extremist groups often referred to as being part of the “incel” community, far-left groups, and neo-nationalist groups such as the Hindutva movement and Buddhist extremist groups in Asia. Across international far-right violent extremist trends we see an increase in violence inducing conspiracy theory networks, including new trends revolving around anti-vaccination movements and even anti-5G movements that have an effect on technology companies.
Far-Right
Insights can aid in contextualizing the overall ideology and diversity of groups implied by the term “Far-Right”. Relevant research focusing on the Far-Right and White Supremacy present useful explorations of how groups have attempted to exploit and sometimes been deplatformed by platforms, along with wider exposés on global online far right activity. Additionally, available research hones in on particular groups such as QAnon, the Proud Boys, amongst others.
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30th June 2023How Gen Z is Changing Anti-Abortion Extremism Through ‘Queering’Zelly Martin and Inga Trauthig
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27th April 2023The Lineage of Violence: Saints Culture and Militant Accelerationist TerrorismJonathan Lewis, Joshua Molloy and Graham Macklin
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22nd March 2023Granola Nazis: Digital Traditionalism, the Folkish Movement and the Normalisation of the Far-RightCatherine Tebaldi
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27th January 2023Mainstreaming Far-Right Conspiracies: Éric Zemmour’s Discourse as a Case StudySarah Cammarata
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10th January 2023Supreme Men, Subjected Women: Gender Inequality and Violence in Jihadist, Far-Right, and Male Supremacist IdeologiesJoana Cook and Josh Roose
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04th January 2023Far-Right Factions And Threats After the United States Midterm ElectionsPete Kurtz-Glovas
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01st December 2022Gendered Narratives, the Online-Offline Nexus and the Far-Right in AustraliaDr Alexandra Phelan and James Paterson
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10th November 2022‘All my Heroes are Dead’: The Untimely Demise of The American Futurist – James Mason PartnershipDr Bethan Johnson
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26th October 2022Ideological Leaderless Resistance in the Digital AgeJacob Ware and Cleary Waldo