CEP Webinar: “Paramilitary Training Activities of Violent Right-Wing Extremists” | Panel 1

Monday, Dec 13, 2021

Event topic: “Paramilitary Training Activities of Violent Right-Wing Extremists: Threat, Mitigation Opportunities and Challenges”

This webinar explored the issue of paramilitary training activities of violent right-wing extremists in Central and Eastern Europe and discussed the challenges and opportunities that governments encounter when attempting to mitigate this threat. This webinar was the fourth event in a virtual event series during which CEP, supported by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, examines the various challenges emanating from the transnational right-wing extremist and terrorist movement.

EVENT PROGRAM:

Moderator
Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler
Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project

Introductory remarks
Gabriele Scheel
Head of Division “International Cooperation against Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Corruption”, Federal Foreign Office of Germany

Panel 1: Existing training infrastructure and threat analysis

Kacper Rekawek, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo
 
Jakub Woroncow, PhD
Researcher, Institute of Social Safety (IBS), Poland
 
Ruslan Trad
Journalist, co-founder of De Re Militari Journal and member of the Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria

CEP briefing paper on the event topic:
https://bit.ly/3DUMncz

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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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