Category: Insights
Two Weeks in Soft Security: Free Resources on Countering Extremism, Hate, and Disinformation, May 2025 (II/II)
Browse and read from a list of the 335 most popular LinkedIn resources, including 8 audios and 11 videos, dealing with soft counter-extremism, countering hate…
New on preventhate.org | Policyinstitute.net, 5 June 2025
preventhate.org |Averting and Countering Online Hatred
UNODC Supports Strengthening Cooperation to Prevent and Counter Terrorism and Foreign Terrorist Fighters through MENA Regional Workshop (UNODC)
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), terrorism and the emergence of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) continue to pose serious security risks. The UNODC…
UNODC and Central Asian States Share Experiences on the Effective Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Returnees from Conflict Zones (UNODC)
In Syria and Iraq, more than 40,000 people from more than 120 nations joined ISIL/Da’esh and other terrorist organizations. Tens of thousands have been imprisoned…
Europol coordinates operation against terrorist content online targeting minors (Europol)
Europol coordinated a Referral Action Day (RAD) on the exploitation and radicalization of children on the internet on May 27. During the action day, almost…
Perspectives on Violent Extremism: Insights from Swedish Population Registers in a Global Comparison (Terrorism and Political Violence)
This research looks at the traits of members of violent extremist organizations in Sweden, specifically examining Islamic, far-right, and far-left extremists. Demographic, socioeconomic, criminal, mental…
The Dynamics of Protest Radicalization (Terrorism and Political Violence)
Why do demonstrations become violent? By modifying both group-based and individual-level theories of collective action, we create a generic theory of protest radicalization. The authors…
Cognitive and Behavioral Radicalization: An Explanatory Split? (Terrorism and Political Violence)
The assumption that cognitive and behavioral radicalization are clearly distinct from one another is contested in the linked article. It criticizes the idea as being…
