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Logistical challenges facing the 2023 elections remain huge given the number of political parties, the security environment and the number of contestants at various levels.
Sports can help prevent the involvement of youth in violent extremism.
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.
All terrorism in the region has domestic origins but is linked to regional and international events.
Nearly a year ago, New Zealand’s intelligence services warned of the ‘realistic possibility’ of future COVID-related violent extremism. How concerned should people be now?
Our intelligence agencies need to speak clearly, without fear or favour, but also without inflaming prejudice.
New members are joining and some are leaving – as right-wing groups reorganize, scholars of the movement foresee increased polarization, with a risk of more violence.
Death threats against Republicans who oppose Trump are not just the result of angry people. They are, instead, an attempt to intimidate people into sticking with his movement.
Ostensibly protesting an election they may have thought was stolen, their actions fed a larger set of goals that American militants are seizing upon to take more extreme action.
Left-wing terrorism had its heyday in the 1960s-80s, and though some threats remain today, groups like Antifa are known more for low-level violence, not significant terrorist actions.
Legally designating domestic extremist groups as terrorist organizations – as some in the US advocate now – will have limited benefits, if any at all.
Incels, or ‘involuntary celibate’ men, are increasingly radicalising online and committing acts of violence against women. New research explores ways the government can combat it.
Québec schools must consider Bill 21’s potential impact on students. Bullying researchers have found links between publicly permitted behaviour and personal expression.
New Zealand’s response to the Christchurch mosque attacks is seen as a new way of reacting to violent extremism. The challenge now is how to translate domestic cohesion into foreign policy.
By inciting religious hatred, the recent attacks in Sri Lanka appear to have more in common with Al-Qaeda than past ethno-religious violence, which has sought specific political change.
We don’t know the exact path towards radicalisation, so giving teachers signs to look for is dangerous.
Terrorists are wealthy. They’re poor. They’re Christian. They’re atheists. They come from all over. That’s why US counterterrorism efforts must be more nuanced than just barring Muslims.
Efforts to kick extremists off the internet can’t succeed and might even have the unintended side effect of bolstering support for radical groups.
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Research Fellow, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Middlebury
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Lecturer in Terrorism Studies, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Lecturer, Media and Communication, UWA, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in the Dept of History & the American and Canadian Studies Research Centre, University of Birmingham
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Associate professor, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Simon Rosenbaum is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate professor & Scientia Fellow, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Lecturer, Terrorism and Security Studies; Program Manager, Masters of Terrorism and Security Studies, Charles Sturt University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
