Islamist terrorist attacks are increasingly being carried out by lone perpetrators—radicalization is happening faster and faster and also affects minors. “We are in a very complex threat situation,” says terrorism expert [and CEP Senior Director]...

"It confronted European officials with a new reality," comments Hans-Jakob Schindler, founder and current director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)—based in New York and Berlin—and former head of the UN Security Council's Sanctions Monitoring...

New episode of #PodParis – with Sofia Koller from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). Ten years after the attacks of November 13, 2015, we look back – and forward – together with Sofia Koller. In this episode, we talk about the security policy and...

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about the arrest of a right-wing extremist in Germany accused of planning to kill German politicians on the dark net.

Hans Jakob Schindler (Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project) on the arrest of a suspected right-wing extremist from the Reich Citizens' Movement milieu

Radicalization via social networks is not an isolated incident, says terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter Extremism Project research organization. He demands that platform operators cooperate more closely with the authorities.

“This is a good day for Germany,” commented extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, in an interview with our editorial team. “Why not sooner?” asks Schindler. The ban on “Muslim Interaktiv” was...

Hamas and ISIS finance themselves through a global network of private supporters. According to terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler, this generates millions, often through many small individual donations, including from Germany. They often disguise...

On Saturday, a Syrian suspected of terrorism was arrested in the Berlin district of Neukölln. The 22-year-old is now in custody. The charges: “Preparation of a serious act of violence endangering the state and the dissemination of propaganda material...

Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project, frames the problem in similarly stark terms. “There are two primary terrorist threats that can be identified,” he tells The Cipher Brief. “First of all, the rapid expansion of...