New CEP Report Reveals that Illicit Trade in East Africa is Funding Extremists, Terrorists, and Warlords

East Africa—a key security partner in the war on terror and a principal engine of economic development on the African continent—is being critically undermined by illicit trade, according to the new report An Unholy Alliance: Links Between Extremism...

Extremist Content Online: Manufacturing Guides For Explosives, Suicide Belts Located On The Internet Archive

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers located dozens of manuals on the Internet...

DGAP-IFRI-CEP Webtalk: Inside France’s Deradicalization Program | Dr. Robert Pelzer

France has been a prominent target of Islamist terrorism both within and outside its borders for decades, and the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty near Paris in October 2020 is only one of the latest examples. Traditionally focusing on security...

DGAP-IFRI-CEP Webtalk: Inside France’s Deradicalization Program | Sofia Koller

France has been a prominent target of Islamist terrorism both within and outside its borders for decades, and the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty near Paris in October 2020 is only one of the latest examples. Traditionally focusing on security...

DGAP-IFRI-CEP Webtalk: Inside France’s Deradicalization Program | Dr. Marc Hecker

France has been a prominent target of Islamist terrorism both within and outside its borders for decades, and the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty near Paris in October 2020 is only one of the latest examples. Traditionally focusing on security...

Violent Islamism Reaches the Caribbean, Latin America

If you asked the average person which Western country, per capita, had the greatest number of citizens join ISIS, few would guess Trinidad and Tobago, the twin Caribbean island nation near the coast of Venezuela. Between 2013 and 2016, however, the...

"Joshua Fisher-Birch from non-profit group Counter Extremism Project (CEP) said designating a white supremacist group as a terrorist organisation could transform how law enforcement and intelligence agencies could approach it."

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "hat should we do about terrorist prisoners who subvert attempts to treat them? This week Jonathan Hall QC, the government’s independent terror laws watchdog, published his latest report."

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher with the US-based Counter Extremism Project, says these training camps allow recruits with military experience to train others, which adds to their threat 'This very extreme neo-Nazi ideology, the way they organized...

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher with the US-based Counter Extremism Project, says these training camps enable recruits with military experience to train others, adding to their threat. 'This very extreme neo-Nazi ideology, the way that they...