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London-based CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy spoke with Times Radio regarding a recent terror incident in Liverpool. Mr. Duffy, who previously worked on the UK's Prevent strategy, also provided insight into the program and the country's current...
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"Authorities say the person suspected of committing a terror attack in the U.K. last Sunday had been denied asylum in 2014. On this week’s episode of “The Hunt, with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Liam Duffy, Strategic Advisor for...
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CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler writes: "The twin challenge from right-wing and Islamist terrorism will continue to dominate the terrorism threat landscape. Enabled and fuelled by technologies such as social media, internet communication and...
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"i found one YouTube profile for a Moroccan-born Islamist preacher listed on the Counter Extremism Project’s Extremist Database, who is said to have played a role in radicalising a suicide bomber through sermons at a Paris mosque."
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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Desecration is a key goal for violent extremists. Terrorists abhor normality. If your objective is to terrify and demoralise a population and also to provoke a security response that makes life more restricted...
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"Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director at the Counter Extremism Project says the country is in serious trouble. Should the West help the Taliban, which is supporting Al Qaida? He says the choices are 'bad, worse, and ugly.'"
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"The Counter Extremism Project think tank is calling for “significant improvements” in rehabilitation schemes after it found some terrorists were studying psychology to bluff professionals into believing they no longer pose a threat.
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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "On Tuesday, my organisation, the Counter Extremist Project, launches Hiding in Plain Sight – a discussion paper which I co-authored with a colleague from the European Policy Centre. The paper is built on...
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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Prof Ian Acheson, who led a Ministry of Justice review of extremism in jails, said there was growing evidence across Europe that terrorist prisoners were successfully deceiving professionals into believing they...
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"On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, says it means the Taliban needs help."
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.