Radicalization depends on a multitude of factors that are often times interconnected, including internal motivations and external pressures or catalysts. Technological advances have also enabled elements of the radicalization process to move online, and reports have shown that interest in extremism can be sparked or nurtured by viewing extremist content online. This highlights the importance of preventing radicalization by blocking and actively removing extremist content from online platforms and social media.
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is a trusted partner for governments as well as nongovernmental organizations operating around the globe. From Tanzania to Pakistan to Norway, CEP supports various grassroots efforts to combat extremism.
In September 2021, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), in partnership with Parallel Networks, was awarded a FY2021 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) grant to set up the Radicalization, Rehabilitation, Reintegration, and Recidivism Network (4R Network).
This CEP-GLOBSEC research report probes the nexus of crime and terror, focusing on 310 individuals in 11 European countries arrested, expelled for terrorism offenses, or who died while staging terrorist attacks in 2015, the peak year of European jihadism.
This follow-up CEP-GLOBSEC research report examines the paths taken to global extremist jihad by 56 individuals from within the dataset of the first report who were convicted of the most serious terrorist offences
This third report from CEP-GLOBSEC finds that because of a lack of a local jihadi infrastructure, few aspiring jihadis in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary succeeded in their quest to travel to Syria and Iraq.
The United States is facing a pending, pressing counterterrorism challenge as dozens of individuals with terrorism-related convictions are set to be released from prison, Parallel Networks Co-Founders Mitch Silber and Jesse Morton found in this report.
This report reveals the dangerous and evolving nexus between criminal and terror groups and what European governments must do to break the link.
British citizen Anjem Choudary is an internationally designated Islamist cleric and convicted ISIS supporter who has been connected to manifold terror-related cases in the United Kingdom and Europe.
On September 28, 2015, the Counter Extremism Project co-hosted the Global Youth Summit Against Violent Extremism in New York City with support from the White House and U.S. State Department.
CEP developed One95, whose primary goal is to highlight best practices, create materials that inform and incentivize future CVE planning and programs, and provide support to grassroots and youth-driven CVE efforts around the world.
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On March 30, 2020, an al-Shabaab suicide bomber mounted the vehicle of Abdisalan Hasan Hersi, a governor in Somalia’s Puntland, as he parked his car near a police station. The jihadist detonated his explosive device, killing Hersi and seriously wounding a former police commander and a civilian.
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