This report focuses on organisations in North Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The report concludes with a summary of the four types of groups uncovered by the research in all five countries at the center of this larger project, organised into broad categories.

In the previous report, the authors presented the cases of five countries in the CEE region, each representing a different landscape in which the movement could operate. This report will focus on three of the selected countries, namely Czech Republic, Poland, and Serbia.

The Muslim Brotherhood is many things to many observers. Some label it a terrorist organization, while others accept it as a modernist movement. Supported by CEP, GLOBSEC has begun to map the Brotherhood’s work in a selection of countries in Eastern Europe.

This paper aims to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the various online ecosystems that underpin and connect the networks within the violent right-wing extremist transnational movement.

The Counter Extremism Project and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung are jointly implementing the project “The Deteriorating Security Situation in West Africa," which launched in November 2022. The project analyzes the various aspects of the complex security environment and develops policy options to mitigate these challenges.

In February 2020, CEP tested the extent to which YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram blocked illegal content. The study found that the “notice and take down” procedure—the basis of the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG)—is not sufficient to reduce illegal content online.

This policy paper presents initial insights regarding the prosecution of female returnees—women who left Germany to travel to the former territory of ISIS in Syria and Iraq and have returned.

CEP supports the introduction of the EU regulatory proposal. We believe that such is the urgency and gravity of the proliferation of online terrorist content, that it merits a directly applicable regulation.

This study focuses on the transnational connections of the violent extreme right-wing milieus in Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. It was commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office in 2020.

(German Version) This study focuses on the transnational connections of the violent extreme right-wing milieus in Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. It was commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office in 2020.