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.
Far-Left
Far-left extremism takes on wide variations in different parts of the world. Research on such groups in India shows why some far-left insurgencies use more traditional methods in efforts against the state. Far left and far-right ideologies imagine different extreme futures. The ideological collision between anti-5G, the coronavirus, and the far-right shows the difference in the type of infrastructure, aesthetic and attack forms both extreme ideologies employ. In German speaking countries, both far-right and far-left ideological extremists use disinformation and conspiracy theories to exploit people’s insecurities, divide communities and create breeding ground for political agenda.
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27th October 2023The Evolution of Indian Left-Wing Extremism in the Digital Era: Tactics, Impact, and Counter StrategyDevika Shanker-Grandpierre
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01st June 2021Choosing Offline: Why India’s ‘Other’ Insurgencies Have not Gone DigitalKabir Teneja