CEP-KAS Webinar: The Deteriorating Security Situation in West Africa | Dr. Kwesi Aning

"Status of ISWAP and ISGS in West Africa and Sahel" Dr. Kwesi Aning Professor and Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Accra, Ghana. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the...

CEP-KAS Webinar: The Deteriorating Security Situation in West Africa | Pieter Van Ostaeyen

"Status of ISWAP and ISGS in West Africa and Sahel" Pieter Van Ostaeyen CEP Project Analyst, PhD candidate Katholieke Universiteit Leuven The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) hosted a webinar on Thursday, June...

CEP-KAS Webinar: The Deteriorating Security Situation in West Africa | Amb. Edmund Fitton-Brown

"Development of al-Qaeda in the Western Sahel Region and Current Operational Capabilities of JNIM" Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown Member of the advisory board of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and former Coordinator of the ISIL, Al-Qaeda and...

CEP-KAS Webinar: The Deteriorating Security Situation in West Africa | Bakary Sambe

"Development of al-Qaeda in the Western Sahel Region and Current Operational Capabilities of JNIM" Bakary Sambe Director of the Timbuktu Institute-African Center for Peace Studies (Dakar, Niamey), founder of the Observatory of Religious Radicalisms...

CEP Event: Tackling The Multiplicity Of Security Challenges In Taliban-Run Afghanistan And Neighboring Countries – Terrorism, Organized Crimes, Human Rights, And Humanitarian Assistance

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) alongside the Permanent Missions of Afghanistan, Canada, and Spain as well as the Afghanistan Policy Lab of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and the International Institute for...

"Analysts with the Counter Extremism Project were used to seeing radical groups asking for donations in crypto currencies. Everyone from neo-Nazis to ISIS sympathizers liked Bitcoin, as it helps avoid oversight from banks and regulators. But in 2020...

"'PIJ is dedicated to eradicating Israel and establishing an autonomous Islamic Palestinian state in the lands currently comprising Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. PIJ believes that the land of Palestine is consecrated for Islam, that Israel usurped...

"Last year, Alexander Ritzmann, the Berlin head of the Counter Extremism Project, warned that the problem would grow if neonazi groups with ties to Ukrainian fascist militias such as III.Weg (“Third Path”), which has trained and invited speakers from...

CEP Senior Advisor writes: "Nonetheless, western media has come to develop a sort of Azov obsession, buoyed by a complete lack of nuance in the reporting around this group. One key factor missing in all of the analyses of the Azov: the difference...

Transnational linkages between violence-oriented right-wing extremism/terrorism and organized crime: challenges and opportunities for multilateral and institutional cooperation (2023 Counter-Terrorism Week Side-Event)

"During this side event, which is co-hosted by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, the Department of State of the United States of America and CEP, the major findings of this research will be presented and the incidents and patterns of cooperation...