Exposure to extreme content does not guarantee radicalisation. Extremist messaging is most effective when it taps into real and perceived grievances young people may be experiencing.
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Mental health support is crucial for incel communities, however, associating incel violence with mental health and neurodivergence risks stigmatizing people with autism.
Human culture has changed too fast for evolution to keep up.
A spate of recent high-profile murders has put focus on the role of patriarchy and misogyny in persistent rates of anti-woman violence in Italy.
Efforts to disrupt online misogyny need to focus on stopping online forums from becoming misogynistic echo-chambers.
Giving incel ideology too much time and energy ends up perpetuating it, instead of stopping it.
The image of the red and blue pills is central to the movie’s narrative but has been co-opted by hate groups who want adherents to think only they know the ‘truth’.
Disturbing online posts and written messages were purportedly left by Ethan Crumbley in the days running up to deadly school shooting.
At least five people were killed and many more were injured after an SUV crashed into a Christmas parade. A terrorism expert explains how vehicles have been weaponized.
To combat online radicalisation, we first need to understand that the picture is rarely as simple as we’d like it to be.
Jake Davison, the gunman in the UK’s worst mass shooting in a decade, has been linked to the ‘Incel’ movement – but what what do incels really believe?
Thirty years after the Montreal Massacre that killed 14 women, new threats such as the incel movement pose dangers to the feminist movement.
Not all mass shooters are white supremacists, but they are nearly all men.
When 14 women were killed at École Polytechnique in 1989, no one at the time considered it an act of terrorism. Three decades later, that’s exactly how it should be viewed.
Incels compare themselves to other men, before blaming women for withholding sex from, in their perception, deserving men.
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Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies, Georgia State University
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PHD Candidate, York Law School, University of York
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Professeur, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Professeure associée au département des sciences sociales, Université du Québec en Outaouais et à l'Institut de recherches et d'études féministes, UQAM, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dalhousie University
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Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King's College London
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PhD Candidate, Department of War Studies, King's College London
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Associate Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor, Computer Science / Community Health & Epidemiology, Dalhousie University
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Professor, Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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