CEP in the News

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March 13, 2022

"The question is whether everyone who is now saying that they want to take part in the fighting is on the road or already there – whether they can be deployed for something, speak the language and have military training. So far there is no concrete...

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March 12, 2022

CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann quoted in story on Ukraine and foreign fighters, for Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

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March 12, 2022

CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann quoted: "Doch „niemand kommt so zurück vom Krieg, wie er reingegangen ist”, sagt Alexander Ritzmann vom Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, einer Organiation, die Extremismus untersucht und bekämpft."

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March 12, 2022

CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann interviewed by Welt.TV: "„In Russland sind definitiv mehr Neonazis und Rechtsextreme als in der Ukraine“, sagt Politikwissenschaftler Alexander Ritzmann. Es gebe derzeit große Sorge, dass vor allem Rechtsextreme...

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March 11, 2022

CEP Senior Advisor Alexander Ritzmann interviewed by German national public radio, Deutschlandfunk: "Das rechtsextreme Asow-Regiment sei nur eine „verschwindend kleine Gruppe“ innerhalb der ukrainischen Streitkräfte, sagte der Extremismusforscher...

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March 11, 2022

"Little is known about the new leader himself, but Schindler, senior director at Counter Extremism Project, and a former United Nations expert on jihadism, explained what the announcement means. 'Baghdadi, as a caliph should be, was making statements...

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March 11, 2022

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler quoted: "The Islamic State group's new leader will have two key priorities, expert Hans-Jakob Schindler told AFP, to keep ties between its multiple subsidiaries -- and simply to stay alive."

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March 11, 2022

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed by Agence France-Presse: "Le directeur de l'ONG Counter-Extremism Project (CEP), ex-expert des Nations unies sur le jihadisme, estime que l'organisation se porte plutôt bien en dépit du décès...

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March 9, 2022

"In the policy brief 'Foreign Fighters in the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War: An Initial Assessment of Extremist Volunteers', the Counter Extremism Project think tank makes nine recommendations to governments to prepare for threats posed by the departure...

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March 9, 2022

"On this week’s episode of 'The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,' Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, the senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, says Russian President Vladimir Putin’s introduction of foreign fighters from...

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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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