On the list below, you will find the 130 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics of counter-extremism and countering hate speech by Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip, during the first half of July 2023.
Since mid-2017, we have filed many thousands of shares on LinkedIn to a network of now almost 6,000 followers and connections – shares of articles and documents about countering extremism and radicalization as well as on countering hate. This is a current selection of our posts.
The Top 5 posts, as part of this issue, are as follows:
- What Goes On In The Mind Of A Terrorist Woman? (HumAngle):
https://lnkd.in/eQZEmWtc - Reshare… What is the best approach for preventing recruitment to terrorism? Findings from ABM experiments in social and situational prevention (Criminology & public policy):
https://lnkd.in/en-en6ft - The Role of NGOs in preventing violent extremism: what Mozambique can learn from Kenya and Nigeria (Conflict, Security & Development):
https://lnkd.in/eyWAqKXy - Violent Extremism in Africa – Anouar Boukhars (Africa Center for Strategic Studies):
https://lnkd.in/etkxWntp - Women’s Contribution Crucial to Effective Counter Terrorism (VOA):
https://lnkd.in/e6_Q5avh
Enjoy browsing and reading these and other documents on our list!
Empowering Pakistan’s Civil Society to Counter Global Violent Extremism (Brookings):
https://lnkd.in/eBNtbJsa
UAE calls on international community to address root causes of intolerance and extremism during UN Counter-Terrorism Week (News Agency WAM):
https://lnkd.in/ekcYRsMG
GIFCT Tech Trials: Combining Behavioural Signals to Surface Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online (Studies in Conflict and Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/eTjxwemp
Falling Through the Cracks: Gender Bias in Online Counter-Terrorism and Prevention (GNET Research):
https://lnkd.in/eYJ2VRiU
Civic Peacebuilding on the Rise in the Asia-Pacific (The Asia Foundation):
https://lnkd.in/eBj5FEFw
Crisis and Strategic Communications Training in Indonesia to Support a Whole-of-Society Approach in the Wake of a Terrorist Attack (United Nations):
https://lnkd.in/eYKdfeDB
Football-based prevention of radicalisation: A Theory of Change for football-based prevention of Radicalisation (Journal for Deradicalization):
https://lnkd.in/gJfQcEV2
PAKISTAN. Countering Violent Extremism (Daily Times, Pakistan):
https://lnkd.in/etvVakEn
Popular fiction and white extremism: Neo-Nazi ideology and medievalist crime fiction (La Trobe):
https://lnkd.in/eeYf6u5K
Here is what Facebook, Instagram and Threads are doing to counter Voice hate speech and disinformation (The Canberra Times):
https://lnkd.in/exWFpqeM
‘Qatar committed to strengthening global efforts to fight terror, violent extremism’ (Qatar Tribune):
https://lnkd.in/eHq8PHHv
Violence, radicalisation among youth a major menace to global community – NCCE Builsa (GhanaWeb):
https://lnkd.in/eNW2j2m3
Key dilemmas in the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism (Örebro universitet via DiVA):
https://lnkd.in/e56bB8bd
Tox Mod Uses AI Voice Tech To Identify Extremism In Online Gaming (Forbes):
https://lnkd.in/eUNv2Te9
Mobilising Extremism in Times of Change: Analysing the UK’s Far-Right Online Content During the Pandemic (European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research):
https://lnkd.in/eiztJZQS
From Hate Speech to Non-Violent Communication (UNDP Kyrgyztan):
https://lnkd.in/eaF28Vuk
Framing local collaboration among frontline workers in the field of preventing violent extremism (Journal for Deradicalization):
https://lnkd.in/g_wvT4Pj
Report: The Threat of Terrorist and Violent Extremist Operated Websites (Tech Against Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/ecXieCnA
Al-Jazeera: How Western Balkans cities deal with security challenges (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/e-XuYjFB
The “Webification” of Jihadism: Trends in the Use of Online Platforms, Before and After Attacks by Violent Extremists in Nigeria (GNET Research):
https://lnkd.in/eYBZmqJG
EXTREMISM FACT SHEET. Anti-Trans Extremism: The Far Right’s New Strategy to Spread Hate (Human Rights First):
https://lnkd.in/eJuytaCk
Video… ICCT Annual Conference 2023 (ICCT):
https://lnkd.in/eru3MZcH
The Role of Self-control and Resilience in Reducing Violent Extremist Attitudes Among Pakistani Young Adults (Psychological Studies):
https://lnkd.in/eyntpJSd
Policy Paper: The Ethics of Using Formers to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism (Journal for Deradicalization):
https://lnkd.in/gHzJH_7D
Contested meanings and uses of hate speech. Inari Sakki previews her European Congress of Psychology keynote (The British Psychological Society):
https://lnkd.in/eRu-nAkw
Gendering Counter-Terrorism: Kunya and the Silencing of Male Victims of CRSV in Northeastern Nigeria (African Studies Review):
https://lnkd.in/eVh9jAaC
Islamic feminism as an alternative strategy for preventing and countering violent extremism among Muslim women in Kenya (Journal of the British Academy):
https://lnkd.in/eGDb2k8b
RAN YOUNG Platform – Assessing P/CVE Projects: Peer Learning and Exchange, Budapest 03-04 May 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/e9waxg_3
Our Priority Recommendations for the Department of Homeland Security (GAO.GOV):
https://lnkd.in/e2Fk_MXd
Online Hate And Harassment On The Rise—LGBTQ+ Community Among The Most Impacted (Forbes):
https://lnkd.in/erz-8gCZ
Addressing challenges to tolerance and religious diversity in Iraq (Middle East Institute):
https://lnkd.in/eUfASGUb
Hostility towards democracy, hate speech, sexual harassment: Children exposed to numerous dangers online (jugendschutz.net annual report 2022):
https://lnkd.in/eB-i6VeE
When Digital and Physical World Combine: The Metaverse and Gamification of Violent Extremism (Perspectives on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/gXsHz3YZ
Video… DS21 – 228 – Enzminger, Grimm – Analyzing Radicalization on the Internet (obscuresecurity via YouTube):
https://lnkd.in/eKZsY5uT
The disregard of mothers’ knowledge and experiences in violent extremism discourse in Kenya (Journal of the British Academy):
https://lnkd.in/ed_jcybA
Digital Forensic Research Lab (Atlantic Council):
https://lnkd.in/eF2t7yBj
The Resurgence of Terrorism In Pakistan: How to Root Out Terrorism That Has Returned With A Vengeance – Analysis (Eurasia Review):
https://lnkd.in/egzmNUJD
Weaponised Misogyny. Extremism Under Our Noses (Women without Borders):
https://lnkd.in/etHzdfCD
Approaches to addressing antisemitism in European P/CVE, March 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/eMWDVF4W
SOUTHERN AFRICAN SECURITY REVIEW 2023. African perspectives on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (FES):
https://lnkd.in/eVMg-X6p
Toolkit on dealing with conspiracy narratives, July 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/e4-cQWkr
Free eBook… Online platforms as an environment for multidimensional radicalization? The extremist symbolism and rhetoric of the Daesh terrorist organization (Collegium Civitas):
https://lnkd.in/eKac5t6U
Borderline Content: Understanding the Gray Zone (GIFCT):
https://lnkd.in/eMugTcnj
Where Big Tech and climate change meet – perspectives on accountability and action (Global Witness):
https://lnkd.in/ePsritsH
Uncovering Political Hate Speech During Indian Election Campaign: A New Low-Resource Dataset and Baseline (via Researchgate):
https://lnkd.in/em-gB9N5
Facebook owner Meta releases first human rights report (Arab News):
https://lnkd.in/eRUWv4aS
Rule By Example: Harnessing Logical Rules for Explainable Hate Speech Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eqh-mK5S
Factoring Hate Speech: A New Annotation Framework to Study Hate Speech in Social Media (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eXeYg6QN
KENYA, REPUBLIC OF CONGO, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC PARTNERSHIP TO BOOST SECURITY, TRADE (Office of the President of the Republic of Kenya):
https://lnkd.in/ecEMM623
Can Political Orientation Explain the Social Structure of Online Aggression? Integrating Social Media and Survey Data (Sociological Inquiry):
https://lnkd.in/eJgwqww4
Voicing the Victims of Narcissistic Partners: A Qualitative Analysis of Responses to Narcissistic Injury and Self-Esteem Regulation (SAGE):
https://lnkd.in/e5e-Xvv5
Interview & Video… XCEPT Research Spotlight: Dr Rajan Basra (XCEPT Research):
https://lnkd.in/ewy7gyDf
Transnational radicalisation dynamics and the role of diaspora communities for (de)radicalisation (Social Cohesion Hub):
https://lnkd.in/etsN3X9u
New UN policy paper launched to counter and address online hate (UN News):
https://lnkd.in/eXrSXwKS
The Regional Face of Extremism: A Case Study of the Northern Netherlands (Journal for Deradicalization):
https://lnkd.in/gekiYecD
Gore and violent extremism: How extremist groups exploit ‘gore’ sites to view and share terrorist material (ISD):
https://lnkd.in/ehFSA-Bn
Video… Security issues Lecture 3 – Linkages between development and spread of extremism (Edu Gurukul):
https://lnkd.in/efJKgHGz (YouTube Video)
https://lnkd.in/eR7ypfMf (Google Presentation)
Repatriation of child returnees from Northeast Syria: A child-rights approach to their management, rehabilitation, and reintegration (ICCT):
https://buff.ly/3NXGP9d
An In-depth Analysis of Implicit and Subtle Hate Speech Messages (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eYyUQ3Te
Youth unemployment is the most common driver of vulnerability to violent extremism and radicalisation in Northern Regions of Ghana – New UNDP Ghana Report (United Nations Ghana):
https://lnkd.in/ecifC3Md
Audio… Society, Sacrifice, and Devotion (Breaking Cycles of Conflict by XCEPT Research):
https://lnkd.in/erR6ipii (Spotify)
https://lnkd.in/eRcqpv98 (Apple Podcasts)
Can Hate Speech Ignite Genocide? | When Words Kill (UN Story):
https://lnkd.in/eSKZc9Jg
RAN YOUNG Platform – Assessing P/CVE Projects: Peer Learning and Exchange, Budapest 03-04 May 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/eua2CCTB
A new way of doing training in Africa: The successful example of UNOCT Programme Office for Counter-Terrorism and Training in Africa based in Rabat (United Nations):
https://lnkd.in/ehsFnDNZ
The role of information skewness in shaping extremist content: A look at four extremists (Information Research):
https://lnkd.in/eUzvnJHJ
Video… Community resilience against violent extremism: Insights from the PREVEX Project (via NUPI):
https://lnkd.in/eYfQuXb7
FBI: Scammers Using Public Photos, Videos for Deepfake Extortion Schemes (PCMAG):
https://lnkd.in/e3_JMXDe
Hate Speech and Atrocity Risks in Central Africa. Lessons from Chad and the Central African Republic (USIP):
https://lnkd.in/eN6ikQ-q
Written evidence submitted by The Diana Award (Hacking Hate):
https://lnkd.in/eqBUcPA9
Masculinity and Misogyny in the Digital Age. What social data can tell us about the climate surrounding masculinity constructs and use of misogynistic language (Ditch the Label):
https://lnkd.in/e498WTiZ
ENDING HATE SPEECH AND DISCRIMINATION CLOSER THAN EVER – YEAR-LONG PROJECT TO TRAIN MUNICIPAL STAFF CONCLUDES (United Nations Mission in Kosovo):
https://lnkd.in/eBbTyxZe
SOUTHERN AFRICAN SECURITY REVIEW 2023. African perspectives on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Maputo Office):
https://lnkd.in/eBbtneMm
Hate speech on social media: behaviour of Portuguese football fans on Facebook (Soccer & Society):
https://lnkd.in/e89PNg9v
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Natural Language Inference for Hate Speech Detection in Languages with Limited Labeled Data (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eQBDR3hW
Systematic keyword and bias analyses in hate speech detection (Information Processing & Management):
https://lnkd.in/eTHxN8qb
RAN PRISONS – Information exchange between the 4 Ps – police, prosecution, prison and probation – in the prison management and reintegration of VETOs, Online 29-30 March 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/e-WKg78U
Report tracks nearly 900 incidents of hate speech, slurs in Loudoun Co. schools: ‘It’s really behaviors, not students’ (wtop news):
https://lnkd.in/emnUcm_S
Audio… Gaming & Extremism: Threats and Opportunities (The Tech Against Terrorism Podcast):
https://lnkd.in/g9Zdzk_N
Bias in Hate Speech and Toxicity Detection (ACM Digital Library):
https://lnkd.in/eHJ_5umF
Free eBook… Digitale Hate Speech. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Erkennung, Beschreibung und Regulation (Springer):
https://lnkd.in/ef9tqWkV
Hate speech law won’t progress further until autumn at the earliest (The Journal, Ireland):
https://lnkd.in/eQkTBm-N
Introduction: Exploring societal resilience to online polarization and extremism (firstmonday):
https://lnkd.in/eXHpMCVs
‘Get back to the kitchen, cos u talk s*** on tv’: gendered online abuse and trigger events in sport (European Sport Management Quarterly):
https://lnkd.in/eudzrpnp
MENA Regional Hub: Operationalising a Whole-of-Society Approach to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE): Roles and Needs of Iraqi Cities (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/exGBHEsf
Possible risks if EU does not change course of Media Freedom Act (Euractiv):
https://lnkd.in/eZZpxsqx
The Conversation around Islam on Twitter: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis of Tweets about the Muslim Community in Spain since 2015 (MDPI):
https://lnkd.in/eVKXYHCr
SCO Heads of State adopt New Delhi Declaration; call for cooperation to counter radicalization, separatism & terrorism (All India Radio News):
https://lnkd.in/ety_Y62d
A Whole-School Approach to Address Youth Radicalization (Educational Theory):
https://lnkd.in/ekq2aUbq
Suit against social media companies including Meta, Google says racist Buffalo Tops gunman was radicalized online (NBC News):
https://lnkd.in/eAkkph_d
Conceptualising the tortuous harms of sexist and racist hate speech (European Law Open):
https://lnkd.in/eEbqYsJb
Twitter Facing Lawsuit Over Antisemetic Hate Speech (Digit News):
https://lnkd.in/eQK9hjS9
The Spanish government points to the danger of extremism in the ecological transition (In Spain News):
https://lnkd.in/e3qQ5Tdn
Digital Platform Regulators Forum puts generative AI on agenda (eSafetyCommissioner, Australian Government):
https://lnkd.in/eTj-8NEU
Anti-Muslim racism: Against right-wing extremism in our society, at all levels! (DaMigra, Germany):
https://lnkd.in/eFfPh2UP
Uncovered: Online Hate Speech in the Covid Era (Ditch the Label):
https://lnkd.in/eVJysJDa
Global crises, local retreats – exits from democracy as an act of radicalization (ECPR):
https://lnkd.in/ezrZzNnf
Protecting our (increasingly younger) children from cyberbullying (eSafetyCommissioner):
https://lnkd.in/e6dqBk4N
Video… Lamu Youth Advocate For Clubs To Combat Violent Extremism In Society (Nation, Kenya):
https://lnkd.in/ezJ9u8pk
Cyberbullying and Hate Speech. What can social data tell us about cyberbullying and hate speech online? (Ditch the Label):
https://lnkd.in/eeRpkj23
Handlungsempfehlungen zu Maßnahmen gegen Hass im Netz (Komptenznetzwerk gegen Hass im Netz):
https://lnkd.in/eKWZ_HXJ
Violent extremism is a threat to human survival – NCCE (BusinessGhana):
https://lnkd.in/euxBBhcR
in:Game abuse. The extent and nature of online bullying within digital gaming environments (Ditch the Label):
https://lnkd.in/eEJGDF6X
Direct and indirect effects of social dominance orientation on hate speech perpetration via empathy and moral disengagement among adolescents: A multilevel mediation model (Aggressive Behavior, Wiley):
https://lnkd.in/e55ymxAN
What If Ground Truth Is Subjective? Personalized Deep Neural Hate Speech Detection (Papers with Code):
https://lnkd.in/e5fuEjse
Countering radicalisation in Europe and beyond. Does the law matter? (via DPCE Online, Italy):
https://lnkd.in/ewbWvZRe
PIRUS: Comparing Violent and Non-Violent Offenders (START, University of Maryland):
https://lnkd.in/eJ4ucZt7
Do not join extremists’ groups – NCCE urges youth (Buisiness Ghana):
https://lnkd.in/eq_kQtF8
France: Riots enter digital bill discussions on how to curb hate speech (Euractiv):
https://lnkd.in/e52U7n_G
RAN study visit on VRWE – The Swedish approach to tackling violent right-wing extremism, Stockholm 06-07 March 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/e8SCHbYA
Playing the Part of the Sharp Bully: Generating Adversarial Examples for Implicit Hate Speech Detection (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eMjBUAAb
Audio… Gaming & Extremism: Identity Fusion (The Tech Against Terrorism Podcast):
https://lnkd.in/ectG-cza
Fighting extremism in gaming platforms: a set of design principles to develop comprehensive P/CVE strategies (ICCT):
https://lnkd.in/eUJykfy6
BERTimbau in Action: An Investigation of its Abilities in Sentiment Analysis, Aspect Extraction, Hate Speech Detection, and Irony Detection (The International FLAIRS Conference Proceedings):
https://lnkd.in/ee-Zzqu2
UNESCO supports Media and Information Literacy training in Colombia as part of the “Social Media for Peace” project (UNESCO):
https://lnkd.in/exHWis3G
Transatlantic Initiative: Responding to Extremist and Hate-Motivated Violence (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/egWkhQCr
Content Moderation Through Removal of Service: Content Delivery Networks and Extremist Websites (GNET Research):
https://lnkd.in/djH724we
A 10-Step Roadmap for Enhancing City-Led Support for Community-Based Programmes to Address Hate and Extremism (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/dR_z3wfw
Western Balkans Regional Hub: City-led Approaches to Empower Youth to Address Extremism, Hate and Polarisation (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/eZ6Edv92
How to Combat Youth Radicalization Using Learning Psychology (Fair Observer):
https://lnkd.in/eRqtKShh
RAN study visit on VRWE – The Swedish approach to tackling violent right-wing extremism, Stockholm 06-07 March 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/eW79JvuP
ESA Regional Hub: Preventing and Responding to Hate- and Extremist-Motivated Violence in South Africa (Strong Cities Network):
https://lnkd.in/eKyeGXhk
Safeguarding AI: Addressing the Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence (NYU Stern):
https://lnkd.in/eUAiqdkH
New Delhi Declaration adopted at SCO Summit: All you need to know (Hindustan Times):
https://lnkd.in/eJSHQWcH
EXTREMISM FACT SHEET. Recycled Bigotry: Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Go Mainstream (Human Rights First):
https://lnkd.in/e6DWy7xy
TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate (Studies in Conflict & Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/ex_JqgMH
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