Category: Insights
Speaking Out Against Terrorism
When a person is on his way to rehabilitate from manifest hate or violent extremism, it is often helpful to give him some time. One…
Hiding Hate in Plain Sight: Extremists’ Obscured Branding
Extremists often employ subtle coding instead of being bold and blunt, be it via tentative allusions, fashion statements, or references to cultural items, such as…
Environmentalism – Not The Next Islamist Trend (?)
Those versed in scenario planning will have thought about the following: what will be the next trend in violent religious extremism? We do not know…
Lessons Learned From Errors in P/CVE
In the scientific and practical sphere of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), we should have more courage to acknowledge errors. P/CVE is a relatively…
Lone Wolves Exist After All
Over the past years, we have seen a shift from the position that so-called Lone Wolves – extremists having radicalized without much interactive or physical…
The Issue of Online Hate
Radicalization occurs more and more often on the internet. Would radicalization be quite as pronounced as it is, in our globalized world, without the world-wide…
Post-Extremism Prevention
Deradicalization means countering new bad influences from both third parties and former offenders. It also, maybe chiefly, means prevention. Although the word prevention is usually…
Communicating Exemplary Successes in Deradicalisation
Why is it difficult for private instances engaged in deradicalisation efforts to communicate individual successes? The following note provides a short explanation. Oftentimes, people having…