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  • CEE Activities of the Muslim Brotherhood: Mapping the Ikhwan’s Presence in the Region

    The Muslim Brotherhood is many things to many observers. Some label it a terrorist organization, while others accept it as a modernist movement. Supported by CEP, GLOBSEC has begun to map the Brotherhood’s work in a selection of countries in Eastern Europe.
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  • CEP Briefing Paper: The Misuse of Online Platforms by Violent Right-Wing Extremists and Terrorists

    This paper aims to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the various online ecosystems that underpin and connect the networks within the violent right-wing extremist transnational movement.
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  • CEP-KAS West Africa

    The Counter Extremism Project and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung are jointly implementing the project “The Deteriorating Security Situation in West Africa” from November 2022 to early 2024. The project analyzes the various aspects of the complex security environment and develops policy options to mitigate these challenges.
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  • CEP Policy Paper: NetzDG 2.0 - Recommendations for the amendment of the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG)

    In February 2020, CEP tested the extent to which YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram blocked illegal content. The study found that the “notice and take down” procedure—the basis of the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG)—is not sufficient to reduce illegal content online.
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  • CEP Policy Paper: Prosecution Of German Women Returning From Syria And Iraq

    This policy paper presents initial insights regarding the prosecution of female returnees—women who left Germany to travel to the former territory of ISIS in Syria and Iraq and have returned.
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  • CEP Position: Preventing the Dissemination of Terrorist Content Online

    CEP supports the introduction of the EU regulatory proposal. We believe that such is the urgency and gravity of the proliferation of online terrorist content, that it merits a directly applicable regulation.
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  • CEP Recommendations: Tackling Extremist Content Online

    CEP set out a number of recommendations ahead of the release of the European Commission’s proposal on removal of terrorist content online in autumn 2018. In a position paper, CEP reiterates that online platforms are not doing enough to tackle extremist content online.
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  • CEP Study: Terrorism Financing and Social Media Platforms

    In January and March 2020, CEP conducted a study to evaluate the current defense mechanisms of large social media platforms against the misuse of their services by financiers of international terrorism or for the financing of terrorism.
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  • CEP Study: Violent Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism – Transnational Connectivity, Definitions, Incidents, Structures and Countermeasures

    This study focuses on the transnational connections of the violent extreme right-wing milieus in Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. It was commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office in 2020.
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  • CEP Study: Violent Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism – Transnational Connectivity, Definitions, Incidents, Structures and Countermeasures (German)

    (German Version) This study focuses on the transnational connections of the violent extreme right-wing milieus in Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. It was commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office in 2020.
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  • Civilian Counterterrorism Forces and the Fight Against Extremism

    Protracted insurgencies and the growing terrorist threat throughout Nigeria, Somalia, and Burkina Faso have transformed on-the-ground responses to violent extremism in the region. These governments have altered their responses to violent extremists and terrorism, integrating civilian-led, community-based security strategies into their national counterterrorism programs.
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  • Civilian Militias in Mali, Niger, and Mozambique

    As this research report will show, civilian militias may initially promote security, but their activities frequently degrade into violence and the further destabilization of conflict zones, allowing violent extremists to reassert their influence among local populations and further expand their geographical operations.
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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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