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  • Extremism in Erdoğan’s AKP

    This report explores extremist trends and thinking within the AKP and their impact on freedom and democracy in Turkey.
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  • Extremist Converts

    This resource identifies 131 American, Canadian, Australian, and European converts to Islam from diverse backgrounds who have become or attempted to become extremist propagandists or recruiters (13), foreign fighters (53), or domestic terrorists (74).
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  • Extremist Foreign Fighters in Ukraine

    The study focuses on the motivations of western foreign fighters from the extreme right-wing milieu. It also assesses to what extent these individuals pose a security threat.
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  • Extremist Hubs

    CEP’s Extremist Hubs resource examines a list of the neighborhoods, cities, and states that Western news outlets, mayors, and other government officials have labeled as “hotbeds of extremism” or “extremism hubs.”
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  • Extremists & Online Propaganda

    This report profiles 168 individuals who consumed official propaganda materials produced by the media arms of groups like ISIS, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and al-Shabab, which are intentionally crafted to radicalize, inspire, and incite to violence.
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  • Extinction Inc. Illegal Wildlife Trafficking After the Pandemic

    IWT is one of the most valuable forms of international organised crime. Increasingly, the vast profits generated by IWT are captured not by small-time operators, but by highly organised criminal and extremist networks mainly headquartered in Europe and Asia.
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  • Eyes of the Regime: How the Houthi Security and Intelligence Service Ensures Political Domination in Yemen

    One key instrument enabling the Houthis to maintain and expand their control of Yemen is the group's Security and Intelligence Service (SIS). This report outlines the personnel and activities of SIS's senior ranks and the ways that SIS advances Houthi interests.
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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

  • Female Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Challenges in Repatriation, Prosecution, and Rehabilitation

    Following the 2019 fall of ISIS’s so-called “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria, the repatriation of female FTFs has led to a series of challenges.
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  • (Few) Jihadis Without Jihad? Central Eastern Europeans and Their Lack of Pathways to Global Jihad

    Throughout 2019, GLOBSEC, within the scope of a new project developed in cooperation with CEP, mapped out and thematically analysed the pathways to jihadism of the 300+ individuals included in the original dataset.
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  • Financing Patterns and Networks of Violence-Oriented Right-Wing Extremist Actors in Germany

    The financial structures of violent right-wing extremist organisations and actors in Germany are broad and multifaceted. Currently, there is a lack of up-to-date and in-depth analyses of the various financial strategies employed by these groups and individuals as well as their different sources of income.
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  • Finanzierungsmuster und Netzwerke gewaltorientierter rechtsextremer Akteur:innen in Deutschland

    Die Finanzierung gewaltorientierter rechtsextremer Organisationen und Akteur:innen in Deutschland ist divers und breit gefächert.

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Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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