Authorities in the Czech Republic have detained five teenagers for allegedly being radicalised online by the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group. Two of them were charged with terror-related ...
Online radicalization is no longer confined to fringe platforms or isolated forums. It is a dynamic, multi-vector phenomenon that evolves across mainstream social media, encrypted messaging apps, ...
For more than two decades, counterterrorism thinking in the United States, Australia, and across allied democracies has been shaped by lessons drawn from 9/11 and its aftermath. Early models focused ...
Greg Barton receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is engaged in a range of projects funded by the Australian government that aim to understand and counter violent extremism in ...
The violent extremist landscape that has emerged today is due to the decentralisation and democratisation of the digital domain, and its access to Gen-Z (born between 1997 and 2012) teenagers. While ...
While there isn’t a universally accepted definition of a “mass shooting," roughly following The Violence Project and other researchers, I use three criteria: four or more fatalities; occurs in a ...