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Waco has been used as a rallying cry for decades, two scholars of domestic extremism explain.
While some world leaders and foreign policy experts expected IS to increase its attacks during COVID-19’s early days, travel bans and curfews helped slow violence.
A new book examining New Zealand’s extreme and alt-right movements tackles an important issue. But it could have defined its terms better and provided more evidence for its claims.
Populism has been unleashed. We’re beyond the stop-gap measures of small-step reform or pragmatic centrist liberalism. What’s next? We’re about to find out.
What deep-dive polls reveal at the political landscape of America as the 2022 midterm election approaches.
Congressional hearings into the January 6 insurrection have exposed the extent to which self-regulation of social media is not working.
For civilians, free speech is protected by the First Amendment. Not so in the US military, where the rise of political extremism has become a problem.
Extremists have a long and successful history of spreading their ideas through fiction.
Giving incel ideology too much time and energy ends up perpetuating it, instead of stopping it.
In Ukrainian history and culture, women enjoyed independence and agency. The presence of women fighters in the war now is no surprise.
To turn back the tides of radicalization and hate, Canada needs investments in our democratic culture, improvements in policing and support for grassroots efforts.
Both faith and civil society groups have a role to play in speaking against polarization and the risk of violence, since these organizations enjoy bipartisan support.
The pandemic has changed the nature of the national security threat to Australia: here’s what our research uncovered.
People may think of the metaverse as virtual, but the harm terrorists and extremists could do is very real.
Deep-seated disagreement is healthy for a democracy. But when people lose the ability to navigate those differences, they risk seeking anti-democratic unity of thought.
People without ideologies or with confused ideologies make up the largest group of people reported to the Prevent programme.
Nearly one in five defendants in the prosecutions undertaken in response to the January 6 US Capitol attack had served in the military.
Exploring many contemporary cases of radical behaviour showed they had one thing in common: how the risk of radicalisation may be linked to fractured relationships.
To combat online radicalisation, we first need to understand that the picture is rarely as simple as we’d like it to be.
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Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
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Professor in Public Policy and Management, The Open University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology, City, University of London, City, University of London
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Research Fellow in Social Psychology, Georgia State University
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Pace University
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Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies, University of Glasgow
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Senior Research Associate, Lancaster University
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Research Associate, Policy Evaluation and Research Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
