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People who lack modesty and have few negative emotions are more likely to back violent actions for a cause.
Social media companies’ drive to keep you on their platforms clashes with how people evolved to learn from each other. One result is more conflict and misinformation.
The Security Intelligence Service needs public support and trust to do its work well. Adding a degree of transparency to it’s annual threat assessment should help.
Since Facebook removed online hate groups and individuals from its platform, extremist groups are increasingly organizing in more discreet ways.
Research highlights at least six different motivations for perpetrators that commit arson.
The founder of a violent anti-government group has been sent to prison for seditious conspiracy. Experts explain what that means.
The South Korean government’s embrace of gendered citizenship has fueled the virulent gender war between men and women, with digital sex crimes used as ammunition.
An expert in American history explains the white power movement, its impact on veterans and women and how the Vietnam War was the impetus for extremist groups to gain new members.
The UK is among countries cutting international aid payments, which could affect the world in four key areas: poverty, extremism, democracy and refugees.
ISIS-K’s recent killings of Taliban brass are part of the extremist group’s long-term strategy. Will Taliban leaders contain the resurgence of violence?
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.
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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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Director of Research at the Woolf Institute and Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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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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Research Fellow in Social Psychology, Georgia State University
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Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, Western Sydney University
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Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, University of Sheffield
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation; Scholar -In-Residence Asia Society Australia, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
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