Passionate feelings can lead to extreme divisions.
pathdoc/Shutterstock.com
The way people use social media – and the algorithms inside those systems – increases passions, and drives people to polarizing extremes.
It’s very hard to cut extremists off from the internet.
ADragan/Shutterstock.com
Efforts to kick extremists off the internet can’t succeed and might even have the unintended side effect of bolstering support for radical groups.
Police intervene to protect members of National Action as it cancelled a rally in Liverpool in 2015 following counter-protests.
Peter Byrne/PA Archive
Five serving members of the army have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to the group.
Assumptions, authoritarianism and errors are just a few of the ways in which the world could be confronted by a nuclear disaster, physicist and disarmament expert MV Ramana suggests in his book reviews.
Shutterstock
A nuclear physicist and disarmament expert recommends reading on nuclear disasters, weapons, authoritarianism and climate change.
IS supporters are turning away from Twitter.
via shutterstock.com
New research has tracked how quickly Twitter accounts linked to extremism are being suspended.
Police raided several Sydney properties over the weekend in relation to possible terror plots.
AAP/Dean Lewins
The government seems hell-bent on pre-crime arrest, prosecution, and punishment for terror offenders – while falling short in providing the necessary long-term support.
Mothers are revered in Southeast Asia. But, when it comes to extremism, might they also be part of the problem?
Olivia Harris/Reuters
Socioeconomic support is essential to help families resist the temptation of extremism.
British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks on June 4, in the wake of a terror attack in London.
Reuters/Hannah McKay
Cracking down on extremism online won’t solve the problem of extremist violence, will inevitably censor speech that’s important to protect and risks harming political dissidents and democracy itself.
Police walk past Borough Market after the attack at London Bridge on June 3.
David Mirzoeff/PA Wire
It cuts shuts down the chance for dialogue.
Anjem Choudray, one of the leaders of the group, who is now in prison.
Stefan Rousseau/PA Archive
One of the London Bridge attackers was linked to the extremist group.
Social media can play a role in countering the terror messages from extremists.
EPA/Andy Rain
Politicians want social media giants to crack down on those publishing extremist material. A focus on disruption, encryption, recruitment and creating counter-narratives is recommended.
Standing alone.
EPA
When it comes to Islamist extremism and terrorism, change is a constant.
The aftermath of a bomb strike at a refugee camp in Rann, Nigeria.
EPA
The Nigerian government has dealt Boko Haram some serious blows, but the insurgency is far from over.
Statue of the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
Ververidis Vasilis/Shutterstock
It nurtures empathy and rational thought.
A woman holds a flag as she looks out over the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum.
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Data on violent incidents in the US reveal that our focus on Islamist extremism since 9/11 may be misguided.
Natasa Adzic/shutterstock.com
For the first time, parliament plans to ban a right-wing extremist group, called National Action.
Looking the right way?
Yorkman/shutterstock.com
Despite the growing threat from far-right groups, deradicalisation programmes have been largely targeting Muslims.
A court drawing of Thomas Mair.
PA/Elizabeth Cook
We all too readily associate terrorism with Islamic extremism. Thomas Mair’s motivations may have been different but his crime was the same.
Who’s he listening to?
Matt Rourke/AP
Trump has given extremists a high-profile stage, but in the process exposed them to the disinfecting sunlight.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo at the site of an explosion in Chelsea, New York.
REUTERS
A year of violence continues with bombs in NYC and a stabbing in Minnesota, leaving many asking, why? A psychologist explains what research has revealed about the minds of violent extremists.