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.

  • 03rd July 2020
    From 4G to Languages: The Developing Online Jihadist Propaganda Network in India
    Kabir Taneja
  • 29th June 2020
    #NiemalsaufKnien: How the Identitarian Movement in Germany Reacted to the Black Lives Matter Protests
    Linda Schlegel
  • 03rd June 2020
    Terrorism Legislation in the Social Media Age
    Joseph Franco
  • 26th May 2020
    The Internet and Lone Wolf Terrorism in India
    Kabir Taneja, Prithvi Iyer
  • 13th May 2020
    Extremist Responses to COVID-19 in Latin America
    Dr. Alexis Henshaw
  • 06th May 2020
    Remembering Toronto: Two Years Later, Incel Terrorism Threat Lingers
    Jacob Ware, Bruce Hoffman, Ezra Shapiro
  • 15th April 2020
    “#CoronaJihad”: How the Far-Right in India is Responding to the Pandemic
    Dr. Eviane Leidig
  • 14th April 2020
    Islamic State Propaganda in India
    Kabir Taneja
  • 19th March 2020
    How Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia’s Message Framing Primed Its Members To Become Recruits For The Islamic State
    Aaron Zelin

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