Blogs

8 August, 2023
‘Is This a Hate Speech?’ The Difficulty in Combating Radicalisation in Coded Communications on Social media Platforms

The utilisation of the internet for radicalisation purposes, particularly via social media platforms, has been thoroughly …

12 August, 2023
The Role of Violence in Nonviolent Resistance

Check out this important review article on the role of violence in nonviolent resistance. In the …

28 August, 2023
The eradication of hate speech on social media: a systematic review

A broad range of academic proposals and initiatives have been presented to provide solutions and prevent …

31 July, 2023
The Complex Process of Desistance from Extremism

Check out this recent article appeared in the journal Terrorism and Political Violence ( https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2023.2215348). Sustained …

19 June, 2023
Understanding (non)involvement in terrorist violence: What sets extremists who use terrorist violence apart from those who do not?

Check out this fantastic article by Bart Schuurman and Sarah Carthy. By analyzing 103 cases of …

16 June, 2023
Beyond Violent Extremism: A 3N Perspective of Inceldom

Check out this new study by Ellenberg, Speckhard and Kruglanski. In recent years, self-described “involuntary celibates” …

24 May, 2023
New Research on the Psychology of Violent Extremism

Check out this recent peer-reviewed journal article published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy …

10 May, 2023
Countering Far-Right Anti-Government Extremism in the United States

In this excellent new research report, Kaitlyn Robinson, Iris Malone and Martha Crenshaw discuss the threat …

20 April, 2023
Twitter Hate Speech Detection: A Systematic Review of Methods, Taxonomy Analysis, Challenges, and Opportunities

Check out this recently published systematic review of hate speech detection approaches. The authors find that, …

17 April, 2023
The Attitudes-Behaviors Corrective (ABC) Model for Understanding Terrorism

This new article discusses the need to treat distinct theoretical interpretations of personal involvement in terrorism …