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Childhood Innocence?: Mapping Trends in Teenage Terrorism Offenders
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. An overview of its findings can be found here. A live version of…
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Imagined Threats: Demographic Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism, and the Legacy of the 2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Please read on for the Executive Summary. On 2 August 2023, a…
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Behind the Mask: Uncovering the Extremist Messages of a 3D‑Printed Gun Designer
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Please read on for the Executive Summary. About this Study Within the…
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Financing Violent Extremism: An Examination of Maligned Creativity in the Use of Financial Technologies
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Please read on for the Executive Summary. This workbook teaches researchers, analysts…
ICSR TeamPrison-based Interventions Targeting Violent Extremist Detainees
Read moreThe full Review of Evidence can be accessed here. Please read on for the Summary. Background Despite the importance of…
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Sleeping with the Enemy: Sex, Sexuality and Antisemitism in the Extreme Right
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ICSR Team“One Struggle”: Examining Narrative Syncretism between Accelerationists and Salafi‑Jihadists
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Violent Extremist Innovation: A Cross‑Ideological Analysis
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“We are Generation Terror!”: Youth‑on‑youth Radicalisation in Extreme‑right Youth Groups
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“The Arc of Jihad”: The Ecosystem of Militancy in East, Central and Southern Africa
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Counterterrorism in North Africa: From Police State to Militia Rule and the Quagmire of “CVE”
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Far From Gone: The Evolution of Extremism in the First 100 Days of the Biden Administration
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Literature Review: Innovation, Creativity and the Interplay Between Far‑right and Islamist Extremism
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Please read on for the Introduction. As intercommunal violence has intensified in many…
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Understanding Salafi‑Jihadist Attitudes Towards Innovation
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Please read on for the Executive Summary. Introduction One of the most notable…
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How Telegram Disruption Impacts Jihadist Platform Migration
Read moreThis report was first published by the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST). The full report can…
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Memetic Irony and the Promotion of Violence Within Chan Cultures
Read moreThis report was first published by the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST). The full report can…
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The New Philosemitism: Exploring a Changing Relationship Between Jews and the Far-Right
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The Islamic Movement in Britain
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Please read on for the Introduction. This report is focused on a network…
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Deradicalisation in Singapore: Past, Present and Future
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Extremist Offender Management in Europe: Country Reports
Read moreYou can access the volume of country reports here. Please read on for the Foreword. The ten country papers in…
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Prisons and Terrorism: Extremist Offender Management in 10 European Countries
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Islamic State in Libya: From Force to Farce?
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Will ‘We Won’ Become ‘Mission Accomplished’? A US Withdrawal and The Scramble for Northeastern Syria
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Drugs and Terrorism: The Overlaps in Europe
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The Hashd’s Popular Gambit: Demystifying PMU Integration in Post‑IS Iraq
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“Their Fate is Tied to Ours”: Assessing AQAP Governance and Implications for Security in Yemen
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HTS’s Offline Propaganda: Infrastructure, Engagement and Monopoly
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Transnational Volunteers Against ISIS
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. An overview of its findings can be found here. The age of Islamic…
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Polemical and Fratricidal Jihadists: A Historical Examination of Debates, Contestation and Infighting Within the Sunni Jihadi Movement
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. An overview of its findings can be found here. The Sunni Jihadi movement…
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‘The Greatness of Her Position’: Comparing Identitarian and Jihadi Discourses on Women
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Introduction. hen women get involved a movement becomes a…
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Saudi Foreign Fighters: Analysis of Leaked Islamic State Entry Documents
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. Context • In early 2016, a huge…
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Ghosts of the Past: The Muslim Brotherhood and its Struggle for Legitimacy in post‑Qaddafi Libya
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. Background: Libya in 2018 • Seven years…
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The Kurds After the ‘Caliphate’: How the Decline of ISIS has Impacted the Kurds of Iraq and Syria
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. • While the so-called Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’…
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Reintegrating ISIS Supporters in Syria: Efforts, Priorities and Challenges
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. • Despite the significant degradation of ISIS’s…
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From Daesh to ‘Diaspora’: Tracing the Women and Minors of Islamic State
Read moreIn July 2019 this dataset was updated to account for increasing information on women and minors with Islamic State. You…
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A Tale of Two Caliphates: Comparing the Islamic State’s Internal and External Messaging Priorities
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. Overview In recent years, the media department…
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Cubs in the Lions’ Den: Indoctrination and Recruitment of Children Within Islamic State Territory
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. Over the course of its ‘Caliphate’ project…
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From Battlefield to Ballot Box: Contextualising the Rise and Evolution of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. Following the Iraqi elections on 12 May…
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Challenging Hate: Counter-speech Practices in Europe
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. CONTEXT In recent years, there has been…
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Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation that Lead to Terrorism: Ideas, Recommendations, and Good Practices from the OSCE Region
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. There is practically no country in the…
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War of Shadows: How Turkey’s Conflict with the PKK Shapes the Syrian Civil War and Iraqi Kurdistan
Read moreBy John Holland-McCowan The full report can be accessed here Key Findings • With Syria and Iraq in flames, Turkey’s…
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Caliphate in Decline: An Estimate of Islamic State’s Financial Fortunes
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Key Findings • Islamic State’s most significant sources of revenue are closely tied…
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Media Jihad: The Islamic State’s Doctrine for Information Warfare
Read moreBy Charlie Winter To read the full report, click here Context Weeks after its capture of Mosul in 2014, the…
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Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus
Read moreThe full report is available here The presence of former criminals in terrorist groups is neither new nor unprecedented. But…
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Pain, Confusion, Anger, and Shame: The Stories of Islamic State Families
Read moreExecutive Summary To read the paper in full, please click here. • For every jihadist that has traveled to Syria, Libya,…
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Victims, Perpetrators, Assets: The Narratives of Islamic State Defectors
Read moreVictims, Perpetrators, Assets: The Narratives of Islamic State Defectors The full report can be downloaded here. Much has been written…
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‘Till Martyrdom Do Us Part’ Gender and the ISIS Phenomenon
Read moreClick here to read this paper in full. ‘Till Martyrdom Do Us Part’ Gender and the ISIS Phenomenon explores the phenomenon…
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ICSR and BBC Publish Global Survey of Jihadist Violence
Read moreClick here for the full report. The product of a unique and powerful collaboration, ICSR and the BBC have just…
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Talking to the Taliban: Hope over History?
Read moreA new report by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and the New America Foundation provides a…
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Who Matters Online: Measuring influence, Evaluating Content and Countering Violent Extremism in Online Social Networks
Read moreThrough the analysis of thousands of Twitter accounts following prominent white nationalists and anarchists, ICSR’s latest report —Who Matters Online:…
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A Neo-Nationalist Network: The English Defence League and Europe’s Counter-Jihad Movement
Read moreThe English Defence League (EDL) and its European allies are building a pan-European far-right network. This is one of the…
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Countering Radicalization in Europe
Read moreBased on extensive fieldwork in Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway, ICSR’s latest report – Countering Radicalization in Europe –…
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Lights, Camera, Jihad: al-Shabaab’s Western Media Strategy
Read moreIn recent years, dozens of young Muslims from Britain, Europe and North America have gone to Somalia to fight with…
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As American As Apple Pie: How Anwar al-Awlaki Became the Face of Western Jihad
Read moreICSR is pleased to announce the release of its newest report, As American As Apple Pie: How Anwar al-Awlaki Became the…
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Return of the Militants: Violent Dissident Republicanism
Read moreThe danger posed by groups such as the Real IRA and Continuity IRA is now at its greatest level in…
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Prisons and Terrorism: Radicalisation and De-radicalisation in 15 Countries
Read moreAt the Peace and Security Summit in New York, ICSR launched its latest report, ‘Prisons and Terrorism: Radicalisation and De-radicalisation…
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The Challenge of Online Radicalisation: A Strategy for Action
Read morePolitical extremists and terrorists are increasingly using the internet as an instrument for radicalisation and recruitment. What can be done…
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Recruitment and Mobilisation for the Islamist Militant Movement in Europe
Read moreIn late 2006, the European Commission charged one of ICSR’s partners, King’s College London, with conducting an in-depth study of…
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