CEP Webinar: “Paramilitary Training Activities of Violent Right-Wing Extremists” | Panel 1

Monday, Dec 13, 2021

Event topic: “Paramilitary Training Activities of Violent Right-Wing Extremists: Threat, Mitigation Opportunities and Challenges”

This webinar explored the issue of paramilitary training activities of violent right-wing extremists in Central and Eastern Europe and discussed the challenges and opportunities that governments encounter when attempting to mitigate this threat. This webinar was the fourth event in a virtual event series during which CEP, supported by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, examines the various challenges emanating from the transnational right-wing extremist and terrorist movement.

EVENT PROGRAM:

Moderator
Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler
Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project

Introductory remarks
Gabriele Scheel
Head of Division “International Cooperation against Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Corruption”, Federal Foreign Office of Germany

Panel 1: Existing training infrastructure and threat analysis

Kacper Rekawek, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo
 
Jakub Woroncow, PhD
Researcher, Institute of Social Safety (IBS), Poland
 
Ruslan Trad
Journalist, co-founder of De Re Militari Journal and member of the Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria

CEP briefing paper on the event topic:
https://bit.ly/3DUMncz

Remote video URL

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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