Mass shooters, violent extremists, and terrorists, who are overwhelmingly male, exhibit misogynistic attitudes a history of violence against women. Over the past few years, incels (“involuntary celibates”) have gathered in online communities to discuss their frustration with sexual/romantic rejection, espouse male supremacist attitudes, justify women men more popular Despite link between misogy...

The purpose of this article is to explain why, despite numerous collective and individual efforts, states have failed eradicate terrorism produced by Islamic extremism. What alternatives present paradigms possibly exist in the battle against extremism? Through its neo-Kharijite takfiri character, irreconcilable extremism that developed at end Cold War due a leadership vacuum world, has caused w...

On November 25th, 2020, RADAR Solutions Director and Adjunct Fellow at Victoria University Shandon Harris-Hogan spoke on the topic of Countering Violent Extremism: Perspectives from Australian Context 2020 CASIS West Coast Security Conference. The presentation was followed by a question answer period with other speakers. key points discussion focused terrorism in Australia Canada before after I...

Since the publication of the 2015 Global Terrorism Index (GTI), the Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) agenda has gained attention and become more clearly defined. Of course, reservations remain, for example concerning definitions, data, and drivers; the genesis and ultimate purpose of PVE; and the risks associated with the implementation of the agenda. Nevertheless, momentum is developing. The...

Research shows that microblogging websites such as Tumblr are being misused as a platform to disseminate hate and extremism. We formulate the problem of locating such extremist communities as a graph search problem. We propose a topical crawler based approach performing several tasks: searching for a blogger, computing its similarity against exemplary documents, filtering hate promoting blogger...