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.

APAC

Throughout the APAC region, insights aid in contextualizing violent extremism online in both regional and country specific ways. Relevant research presents useful explorations of right-wing extremist activity and ideologies in Southeast Asia, and the applicability and adaptability of tech policies across the global south. Additionally, there has been a focus in the research on country specific groups, such as the latest shifts around cyber-enabled extremism in Australia, the potential online extremist propaganda challenges for Indian emerging tech platforms, or recent online deradicalization efforts in Indonesia.

Coronavirus

Coronavirus has had an ongoing and undeniable global impact on social, political, and economic structures. The pandemic and its related international lockdowns also saw increased activity from violent extremist networks, having a potential effect on processes of radicalization including from white supremacy, Islamist extremist, and misogyny-based violent extremist groups as well as violence-inducing conspiracy theory networks and accelorationist groups. Different extremist groups all sought to reinterpret or capitalize on the pandemic to suit their overall goals, affecting online trends and platform usage in different ways.

  • 11th January 2021
    From #ArsonEmergency to #DanLiedPeopleDied: How Extremist Messaging Co-Opts Emergency Events on the Australian Twittersphere
    Dr. Timothy Graham
  • 30th October 2020
    Rethinking Bioterrorism Post COVID-19
    Dr. Patrick Walsh
  • 24th September 2020
    Increased Visibility of Far-Right Movements in Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Samaya Borom

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