The country has not seen terrorist attacks in the age of al‑Qaeda and Islamic State (IS). But one of Singapore’s closest neighbors, Indonesia, has repeatedly been targeted by the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), al‑Qaeda’s principal offshoot in Southeast Asia, and other violent extremists. Keep Reading
In 2017, there were 10,900 terrorist attacks around the world that killed more than 26,400 people, according to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). Keep Reading
Security experts have raised fresh concerns over opportunistic alliances emerging among belligerents who share a hostility towards national authorities, and seek to exploit vulnerabilities created by the COVID-19 crisis. Keep Reading
Secret efforts to groom and recruit teenagers by a neo-Nazi militant group have been exposed by covert recordings that capture senior members of The Base interviewing young applicants and discussing how to radicalize them. Keep Reading
On June 3, Europol supported the Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional) in arresting a man in Madrid on suspicion of radicalization and for dissemination of jihadist terrorist propaganda via the internet. Keep Reading
News organizations have adapted responsible reporting guidelines for different circumstances, such as violent crime and suicide, but many are not sufficiently adapted for reporting on terrorism specifically. Keep Reading
"Isolation may exacerbate grievances that make people more vulnerable to radicalization – such as financial insecurity or social alienation." Keep Reading
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services has published an inspection report on British police forces’ contribution to the U.K. government’s Prevent program. Keep Reading
Many terrorist groups have/are using religion in order to establish power and control over people. They "take advantage" of people's situations and beliefs to convince them that radicalization is necessary to achieve goals. Keep Reading
The team will create a relational database that includes event-level information on approximately 700-1,000 U.S.-based extremist plots since 1990. Keep Reading
Funding for counterterrorism policing will grow to £906 million in 2020 to 2021, a £90 million year-on-year increase. Keep Reading
For a few years, the return of experienced jihadi fighters from the Levant was perceived as the main threat to Belgium. With the disintegration of IS’s caliphate, the threat posed by the group has evolved significantly. Returnees are no longer the sole – or even main – concern of security services. Keep Reading
Most political activism occurs within social norms and the democratic consensus, but a minority mobilize in a consciously perilous manner. When this is premised upon sacred values, one may be said to be behaviorally radicalized. Keep Reading
Less budding foreign fighter and more extremist provocateur, he enjoyed insulting us with impunity and showed us the middle finger as he left. And yet, Yassine agreed to let us scan his brain – for the first ever brain scan study on radicalization. Keep Reading
Counter Terrorism Policing in the U.K. is calling on business leaders to play a greater role in promoting Prevent in order to stop vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism. Keep Reading
‘Flash’ or ‘instant radicalization’ was introduced to elucidate how some literally in a moment jumped into jihadi terrorism without any previous phase of, well, radicalization. Keep Reading
It is well known that relationships and social networks play a major role in radicalization. But how are these relationships and networks formed? Keep Reading
While in prison, the suspect tried to recruit young people to the extremist jihad and spread his extreme ideas to prisoners by offering them money if they grew beards, read the Quran and obeyed his orders. Keep Reading
The future is uncertain; Libya seems to be at a critical crossroads with various groups competing for power and claiming legitimacy. Keep Reading
An acceptance of the radical narrative becomes easier than rejecting the stable aspects of the self that is deemed to be a failure. Keep Reading