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.

  • 28th February 2020
    Abdullah el Faisal’s Persistent Screed
    Raffaello Pantucci
  • 24th February 2020
    Far-Right Terrorism is Global, but Coverage is Not: Hindu Nationalist Violence in India
    Dr. Eviane Leidig
  • 20th February 2020
    Hiding in Plain Site: Islamic State’s ‘Muslim News’
    Mustafa Ayad
  • 13th February 2020
    Online Extremism in Latin America- An Overview
    Dr. Alexis Henshaw
  • 31st December 2019
    Communication strategy by the Iraq’s religious authorities
    Inna Rudolf

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