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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Regional Trends

While experts can point to overarching global trends in terrorism and violent extremism, we also know that there are significant regional and country-based variables in how these groups recruit, mobilize, propagandize, and coordinate attacks. There are also varying international trends in the types of platforms terrorists and violent extremists use in different parts of the world, their overarching aims and the ways their aims manifest online. GNET includes expert insights from academics and practitioners all over the world, feeding in the nuances and adversarial shifts they report on.

  • 07th March 2022
    Far-Right Responses to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
    Sara Aniano
  • 02nd March 2022
    Islamic State Supporters Keeping Tabs on Ukraine
    Meili Criezis
  • 28th February 2022
    The Death of Islamic State’s Leader Abu Ibrahim Al-Qurashi: What’s Next for Indonesian IS Supporters
    Vidia Arianti, Unaesah Rahmah
  • 24th February 2022
    Communication Technologies, Conspiracies, and Disinformation in Latin America: COVID-19 and Beyond
    Dr. Alexis Henshaw
  • 18th February 2022
    Crowdfunding and Protest Financing: Emergency Law in Canada
    Jessica Davis
  • 25th January 2022
    The EU Nuclear Option and the Potential for a Recrudescence of Anti-Nuclear Violence
    Mauro Lubrano
  • 10th January 2022
    Youth-on-Youth Extreme-Right Recruitment on Mainstream Social Media Platforms
    Hannah Rose A C
  • 03rd January 2022
    Examining the Denver Shooter’s Ideological Views
    Matthew Kriner, H.E. Upchurch, W. Aaron
  • 16th December 2021
    Towards a Truly Post-Organisational UK Far Right? The Usefulness of a Newly Emergent Concept
    Dr. William Allchorn

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