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  • Looks can be deceiving: Extremism meets paramilitarism in Central and Eastern Europe

    This report is the result of the author’s work on a variety of endeavors with CEP, namely a 2020-21 research project on radical foreign fighters in Ukraine and a project on the transnational connectivity of the Western extreme right.
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  • EU Commission consultation – Digital Services Act package – ex ante regulatory instrument of very large online platforms acting as gatekeepers

    The current draft DSA is based on a set of narratives about the role, function and business models of so-called gatekeeper platforms that do not seem to adequately reflect their actual functionality and commercial purpose.

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  • Antisemitism: A History

    Journalists and historians have warned about a “new antisemitism” in the 21st century. To understand the modern incarnation of antisemitism requires an examination of the roots and evolution of institutional antisemitism and how it led to events such as the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.
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  • Far-Left Extremist Groups in the United States

    Far-left extremism in the United States largely centers around the notion of correcting an injustice but is otherwise broad in its ideological catchment. CEP has profiled 11 far-left movements either previously or currently active in the United States. Continue Reading

  • An Unholy Alliance: Links Between Extremism and Illicit Trade in East Africa

    East Africa, which is considered a key security partner in the war on terror, is at a critical juncture. As it struggles to recover from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the region finds itself engaged in a struggle against extremism, crime and corruption.
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  • The Muslim Brotherhood’s Ties to Extremists

    Despite the Brotherhood’s official commitment to non-violence, CEP has documented ideological and operational links between the Brotherhood’s ideology and violent terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS.
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  • Western Foreign Fighters and the Yazidi Genocide

    The Yazidi minority of Iraq was specifically targeted for mass rape and genocide by ISIS. Many of the surviving Yazidis are crying out for justice for the crimes committed against their community, their families, and friends.
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  • CEE Activities of the Muslim Brotherhood - Final Report: North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, & Conclusions for the Region

    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.
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  • Gradualists to Jihadists: Islamist Narratives in the West

    This paper considers the four main narratives consistently deployed by both “non-violent” and violent Islamist (Jihadist) movements. Accepting the religious underpinnings of Islamist and Jihadist ideology, these narratives are inherently political, as the paper will explain in detail.
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  • Sayyid Qutb's Ties to Extremists

    Often referred to as the father of modern Islamism, Egyptian author Sayyid Qutb was a lead theologian of the Muslim Brotherhood in the mid-20th century. His influence can be seen in violent groups such as al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban.
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  • The Financing of Right-wing and Ethnically or Racially Motivated Terrorism

    On the 7th of December 2020, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) hosted a virtual side event, co-sponsored by Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States

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  • The Top 20 Most Dangerous Extremists Around the World

    CEP’s list of the 20 most dangerous extremists on the planet highlights the last known location, deaths attributed to these harbingers of terror, as well as analyzes the influence these extremists have had over their group, their followers, and their extremist movement at large.
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