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.

  • 08th September 2020
    Indian States, Deradicalisation and Online Platforms
    Kabir Taneja
  • 14th August 2020
    Catfishing to Counter Extremism: Lessons from an Indonesian Experiment
    Cameron Sumpter
  • 11th August 2020
    Italy and the Vatican in Islamic State Propaganda
    Francesco Marone
  • 31st July 2020
    From Fears to Conviction: Why Internet Shutdowns Don’t Work
    Prithvi Iyer
  • 17th July 2020
    The Cultivated Extremist? How the Identitarian Movement Frames its Ideology
    Linda Schlegel
  • 09th July 2020
    Singapore’s Radicalised
    Dr. Shashi Jayakumar
  • 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

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