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Advocates for Palestine must contend with AI misinformation
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Rana Husseini (Jordan)
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Yanar Mohammed (Iraq)
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Sheema Kermani (Pakistan)
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Şafak Pavey (Turkey)
Background embracing international and national public policymaking and UN diplomacy. Expertise in strategic public sector engagement & philanthropy in humanitarian
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Rana Husseini (Jordan)
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Zainah Anwar (Malaysia)
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Jeff Schoep (USA)
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Joanne Payton (UK)
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Nazir Afzal (UK)
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Radu Cinpoes (UK)
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Kenan Malik (UK)
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Başak Taraktaş (Turkey)
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David Duriesmith (UK)
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Mobashra Tazamal (USA)
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Rais Bhuiyan (USA)
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Pardeep Singh (USA)
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Manwar Ali (UK)
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Ivan Humble (UK)
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OSCE: The role of civil society in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism
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SINGAPORE: Supporting secular pluralism
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SAUDI ARABIA: A multifaceted approach
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PAKISTAN: Education and re-education
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NIGERIA: A pioneering approach in a hostile environment
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LEBANON: International models and local innovations
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GERMANY: NGOs lead the way
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DENMARK: Promoting the ‘Good Life’
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BELGIUM: Building resilience amongst young people
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Healing from Islamophobic violence
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Chetan Bhatt (UK)
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Caroline Goode (UK)
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ICAN: Preventing violent extremism, protecting rights and community policing
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ICAN: Women’s perspectives on violent extremism and security interventions
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ICAN: Education, identity and rising extremism
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Mossarat Qadeem (Pakistan)
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Ahlem Nasraoui (Tunisia)
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Halima Mohamed Salim (Kenya)
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Aïcha Madi (Canada)
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Mira Kusumarini (Norway)
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Bushra Hyder Qadeem (Pakistan)
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Amel Grami (Tunisia)
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Rudina Çollaku (Albania)
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Wazhma Frogh (Afghanistan)
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Dr. Fatima Akilu (Nigeria)
Dr. Fatima Akilu is the Executive Director of Neem Foundation. She is a trained psychologist with over 25 years’ experience
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Mary Akrami (Afghanistan)
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Hamsatu Allamin (Nigeria)
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Melinda Holmes (USA)
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Petter Nesser (Norway)
Petter Nesser is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Research Establishment (FFI) and associate professor at BI Norwegian Business School.
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Bishop Garrison (USA)
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We need to defeat Islamic State – but how?
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Chilcot: all peaceful options were not exhausted
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What does North Korea want?
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Job creation would solve one problem with the UK’s burgeoning military-industrial complex
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Gaza regeneration: we all need dreams for the future
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Proud Boys
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Lord’s Resistance Army
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FARC-EP
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Boko Haram
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Arson attacks on abortion clinics
GENDER AND EXTREMISM: John Committed arson as part of the Army of God, The Army of God is a loosely
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PAKISTAN: The role of education and gender in shaping the cultural mindset
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SOMALIA: Transforming gender roles and extremism
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SWEDEN: The role of gender in driving and dismantling white supremacy
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LIBYA: The role of alternative narratives in reclaiming women’s political participation
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AMERICA: Gender, trauma, and violence in white supremacist extremism
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JORDAN: Shifting gender roles in Jordanian counter terrorism responses
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INDONESIA: Women religious scholars transforming violent extremism
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The Wisconsin Gurdwara shootings
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Gabrielle Rifkind (UK)
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Mariam Tokhadze (Georgia)
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CAMEROON: Women in Cameroonian peace and conflict networks
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Visaka Dharmadasa (Sri Lanka)
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Cherifa Kheddar (Algeria)
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Sabrina Mowlah-Baksh (Trinidad and Tobago)
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Dwi Rubiyanti Kholifah
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Nancy Yammout (Lebanon)
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Maya Yammout (Lebanon)
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CORE LIBRARY: Attractions
CORE LIBRARY REPORT Often, researchers focus upon negative traits that propel individuals towards extremist beliefs and networks, such as poverty
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CORE LIBRARY: Human rights
CORE LIBRARY REPORT Terrorism threatens human rights – the right to life, liberty, and individual security. However, measures taken to
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CORE LIBRARY: Reintegration
CORE LIBRARY REPORT A majority of those who attach themselves in radical groups ultimately leave them, but it is still
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CORE LIBRARY: Masculinity
CORE LIBRARY REPORT Young men and boys are particularly likely to belong to extremist movements. This is often allied with
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CORE LIBRARY: States and terrorism
CORE LIBRARY REPORT A majority of focus on terrorism addresses non-state actors. This report looks at the complex question of
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Young people as counter-extremism innovators
EXPERT: Farah Pandith Farah Pandith has worked to develop community responses to Islamism amongst young Muslims for the US State.
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Increasing young people’s resilience to extremism
EXPERT: Farah Pandith Farah Pandith has worked to develop community responses to Islamism amongst young Muslims for the US State.
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OSCE: Guidelines for addressing the threats and challenges of “Foreign terrorist fighters” within a human rights framework
PARTNER REPORT Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)Date: 12 September 2018 While the definition and scope of
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OSCE: Non-custodial rehabilitation and reintegration in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism
PARTNER REPORT A Guidebook for Policymakers and Practitioners in South-Eastern Europe Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)Date:
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OSCE: Understanding referral mechanisms in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism
PARTNER REPORT Guidebook for South-Eastern Europe Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)Date: 26 April 2019 This guidebook
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OSCE: Understanding the Role of Gender in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization That Lead to Terrorism
PARTNER REPORT Good Practices for Law Enforcement Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)Date: 26 April 2019 This
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OSCE: Linkages between Violent Misogyny and Violent Extremism
PARTNER REPORT Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)Date 6 September 2022 This policy brief is based on
EXPERT INDEX
Maleeha Aslam (Pakistan)
Dr. Maleeha Aslam (Life Member Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK) is an interdisciplinary social scientist with fifteen years work experience. She
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Fathali M. Moghaddam (USA)
Fathali M. Moghaddam, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Conflict Resolution Program,
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Farah Pandith (USA)
Farah Pandith is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, foreign policy strategist, and former diplomat. Pandith,
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Arno Michaelis (USA)
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Arno Michaelis was a leader of a worldwide racist skinhead organization, a reverend
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Scott Atran (USA)
Scott Atran is Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford and Co-Founder, Centre for the Resolution of Intractable
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Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini MBE (USA)
As Founder and CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE has over two decades
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Naxalites
In 2016, the Naxalite movement was rated the third most deadly terrorist group in the world, after ISIS and the
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Nordic Resistance Movement
The Nordic Resistance Movement is a pan-Nordic neo-Nazi organisation with the goal of ‘a united ethnic Nordic Nation.’ Their main
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QAnon
QAnon is a hugely popular and complex conspiracy theory. The original central mythos is that former President Trump was engaged
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Hezbollah
Literally the Party of God, Hezbollah was formed by Lebanese Shia’ clerics who had studied in Najaf in Iraq, one
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The Far-Right
FACT SHEET The far-right movement, now mainstream in most Western democracies, gains populist support through promoting a narrative of challenging
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Anti-Semitism
FACT SHEET Despite the long history of violence against Jews and a genocide in which nearly two-thirds of the Jewish
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Incels
FACT SHEET Predominantly young men, ‘incels’ resent their inability to develop sexual relationships with women, often using this as an
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Extremist Buddhism
FACT SHEET While Buddhism is often regarded as an intrinsically peaceful religion, it also has a recent history of communalist
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Hindutva
FACT SHEET The Hindutva movement aims to transition the Indian state from pluralism and secularism to ethno-nationalism, based in symbols
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Ethno-nationalism
FACT SHEET Ethnonationalism denotes the desire of an ethnic community to have absolute authority over its own political, economic, and
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Islamism
FACT SHEET Islamism, also known as political Islam or radical Islam, is an ideology based in the idea that Islam
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White supremacism
FACT SHEET White supremacy is based in the belief that European and white people are superior to others on the
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White Right: Meeting the enemy
Award-winning filmmaker and CORE Library founder Deeyah Khan meets US neo-Nazis and white nationalists face to face. She attends the
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Jihad: A story of the others
This gripping documentary investigates why some young Muslims in the West embrace violent extremism.
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A Jihadi’s journey from Birmingham to Bosnia
Shahid joined the foreign fighters brigade of the Bosnian army in the 1990s and then travelled to Afghanistan and Kashmir
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The Cambridge graduate who supported the Caliphate
FORMER EXTREMIST: Usama Hasan Usama fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation and has been a full-time counter-extremism practitioner since
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Deeyah Khan (Norway)
Documentary director and producer Deeyah Khan has won two Emmys, a BAFTA, an RTS and two Peabody Awards in over
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CORE LIBRARY: Youth radicalisation
CORE LIBRARY REPORT Young people have been identified as being at particular risk of becoming involved in extremist movements, particularly
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CORE LIBRARY: Climate change
CORE LIBRARY REPORT The fourth report was developed out of recognition that while climate change is currently realised as a
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CORE LIBRARY: Online radicalisation
CORE LIBRARY REPORT Social media has been identified as a key amplifier of violent extremism. This document summarises the impact
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CORE LIBRARY: Intergroup radicalisation
CORE LIBRARY REPORT The third report was developed to tease out intergroup relations between groups with different interests and ideologies.
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CORE LIBRARY: Radicalisation after Covid-19
CORE LIBRARY REPORT This report analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic upon radicalisation as it happened, drawing upon a
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CORE LIBRARY: Psychosocial approaches to radicalisation
CORE LIBRARY REPORT This report covers the kind of psychosocial analysis that underlies Fuuse’s approach to understanding radicalisation, acknowledging that