European Eye on Radicalization

European Eye on Radicalization In an interview with EER, Elisa Orofino, a researcher on Islamism, terrorism and radicalization, gives us a complete overview of the group, its origins, legacy and reasons why it has survived and thrived for more than six decades. Orofino has been researching these topics since 2009. After completing her PhD in Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, Elisa joined PIER at Anglia Ruskin University in October 2018 as a Post-Doc Research Fellow.

Isaac Kfir, Advisory Board, International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law and Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University Since the 2012 Tuareg uprising, the level of violent extremist activity in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso has consistently risen. In 2022, 43 per cent of all terrorism-related deaths in the world were in the Sahel; in 2007, it was one per cent, a 2,000 per cent rise.

Wasiq Wasiq, Counter Terrorism Analyst There has been a significant amount of discussion of late with regards to counterterrorism measures in the United Kingdom following the William Shawcross Review of Prevent, the U.K. Government’s flagship policy of prevent individuals from being drawn into radicalization and terrorism. This comes against a backdrop of significant terrorist incidents, such as the murder of Sir David Amess MP on 15 October, and also the terrorist incident in Liverpool.

Over the last four decades innovators have come up with many low or zero-carbon energy sources that have made some renewable sources cheaper than coal, with the intention to help the international community transition away from fossil fuel.

Isel Ras, independent consultant, she is on Twitter @IselZyl. Context of Violent Extremism and Prevention Efforts in Africa In a recently published Global Terrorism Index 2023, sixty percent of the global fatalities resulting from violent extremist attacks have taken place in sub-Saharan Africa.

عمار علي حسن رغم تراجع مؤلفه عن كثير من الأفكار التي وردت فيه فإن كتاب “العمدة في إعداد العدة” لعبد القادر بن عبد العزيز، المعروف بالدكتور فضل، لا يزال من الأدبيات الأساسية التي يعتمد عليها تنظيم “القاعدة” في تبرير مسلكه، وتجنيد أتباعه، حتى اللحظة الراهنة. وقد اعترف كثير من المتطرفين أـن هذا الكتاب كان مرجعا لهم في فترة من الفترات، وبعضهم عاد إليه غير مرة، ليتبين موضعه من الجهاد أو القتال.

Ana Aguilera, researcher at the International Observatory for Terrorism Studies (OIET) in Spain and Coordinator of the Young Researchers Programme Terrorist activity in the Sahel region is undergoing a process of transformation and expansion that threatens to destabilize the countries in their immediate neighborhood.

Tommaso Virgili The coronavirus crisis has brought about many nefarious consequences, poisoning our bodies, our economies, and even our souls. Conspiracy theories, hate speech, and racism find an especially fertile ground in times of fear. Jews have always been among the most vulnerable victims of hatred (“the canaries in the coal mine“, to quote radicalisation expert Peter Neumann), and COVID-19 has been no exception to the rule.

In 1989, Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Satanic Verses, was condemned as blasphemous to Islam by the Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who pronounced a death sentence—with an offered bounty—against the author and all involved in the book’s production. Over the last quarter-century, this fatwa has led to various lethal attacks against translators and publishers in numerous countries.

European Eye on Radicalization In her forthcoming book, Foreign Fighters and International Peace: Joining Global Jihad and Marching Back Home (2023), terrorism expert Cholpon Orozobekova gives a new, informative overview about the complex issues which were born out of the Islamic State’s collapse in 2019 and, most importantly, provides an extensive corpus of first-hand accounts based on dozens of interviews that she carried out between 2018 and 2019.