Contextual
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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.
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16th October 2023Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviours and Conflict Amplification in the Democratic Republic of CongoNarcisse Mbunzama
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11th October 2023The Online Space as a Catalyst for Radicalisation in North MacedoniaBledar Feta and Ioannis Armakolas
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06th October 20233D-Printed Weapons and the Far-Right: The Finnish Accelerationist CellRueben Dass
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29th September 2023Unmasking Islamophobic Disinformation in the Aftermath of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday AttackCharani Patabendige
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22nd September 2023From British Imperialism to ‘Globohomo’: Analysing the Irish Far-Right’s Engagement with Irish Nationalism on TelegramJoshua Molloy
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13th September 2023Authoritarian Platforms: Far-right Radicalisation Amidst Economic Precarity in BrazilRosana Pinheiro Machado
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21st July 2023Extremist Violence Against the Trans and LGBTQI+ Community in Australia: A Review of Recent EventsGerard Gill
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05th July 2023Drone Use by Violent Extremist Organisations in Africa: The Case of Al-ShabaabAna Aguilera
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21st June 2023Understanding Love Jihad: Historical Context, Impact, and Strategies of DisseminationDevika Shanker-Grandpierre