On the list below, you will find the 150 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics of counter-extremism and countering hate speech by Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip, during the second half of July 2023.
Since mid-2017, we have filed many thousands of shares on LinkedIn to a network of now almost 6,000 followers and connections – shares of articles and documents about countering extremism and radicalization as well as on countering hate. This is a current selection of our posts.
The Top 5 posts, as part of this issue, are as follows:
- Call for Proposals “Research for the Design of Countering Violent Extremism Evidence based Projects” (via Funds for NGOs):
https://lnkd.in/ekVab-gb - EU-funded program supports research on violent extremism (The Dipomatic Insight):
https://lnkd.in/eYJ5i53x - Islam has no place for extremism: Muslim World League chief delivers ‘Khutbah’ at Jama Masjid (News Drum, India):
https://lnkd.in/e5k2bEVf - Morocco calls for coherent, viable regional response to counter terrorism & extremism in the Sahel (The North Africa Post):
https://lnkd.in/eSQHGaDr - Beyond Fake News: Meta-Ideological Awareness (MIA) as an Antidote to Conspiracy and Radicalisation (GNET Research):
https://lnkd.in/eJMHUzRd
Enjoy browsing and reading these and other documents on our list!
6 Insights Into How Hate & Violent Extremism are Evolving Online (Google Jigsaw via Medium):
https://lnkd.in/epraZ6rP
DANISH EMBASSY LAUNCHES PROJECT TO COMBAT VIOLENT EXTREMISM (Ministry of the Interior, Republic of Ghana):
https://lnkd.in/gcCkSETZ
Decoding implicit hate speech: The example of antisemitism (SSOAR):
https://lnkd.in/eqzq4G5V
Secondary Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Interventions: A Rapid Review Of The Literature (CREST Research):
https://lnkd.in/eQwjj6FM
Assessing Violence Risk among Far-Right Extremists: A New Role for Natural Language Processing (Terrorism and Political Violence):
https://lnkd.in/e4vimkY7
Rapport: Scope Creep – An Assessment of 8 Social Media Platforms’ Hate Speech Policies (Justitia Int):
https://lnkd.in/eAbvh-ue
Speech. Counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST) 2023 launch (GOV.UK):
https://lnkd.in/ecx3CUXw
An In-depth Analysis of Implicit and Subtle Hate Speech Messages (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eYyUQ3Te
Free manual… Deradicalization and Rehabilitation of Violent Extremist Offenders in Bangladesh. Publication of the Training Manual (The Sasakawa Peace Foundation):
https://lnkd.in/eFB_tnHk
CASS seminar calls for whole-of-nation approach in countering extremism (The Nation, Pakistan):
https://lnkd.in/ecEzjnKJ
Free eBook… Prevention of Extremism through International Cultural Relations. From Art Therapy to Cultural Hubs (Forum for International Cultural Relations):
https://lnkd.in/eSMbDQbw (English and German versions)
UN chief urges reshaping of peacekeeping operations (DW):
https://lnkd.in/e_3a3DMN
From flowers to far-right extremists: A genealogy of ecology in terrorism and extremism studies (Critical Studies on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/egqPqqJt
Spotlight on Games, Gaming and Gamification (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/e5EnfbiT
The Metaverse and Terrorism: Threats and Challenges (Perspectives on Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/gSDXXpak
The Promise—and Pitfalls—of Researching Extremism Online (RAND):
https://lnkd.in/ewBztujA
Cross-Regional Women’s Forum (CONNEKT):
https://lnkd.in/e9KCzhAA
The digital augmentation of extremism: Reviewing and guiding online extremism research from a sociotechnical perspective (Wiley):
https://lnkd.in/eGcJEb26
Rising Extremism: Challenging Hate Groups and Protecting Children (TheHumanist):
https://lnkd.in/eVsFPJGK
Call for Advocacy Campaigns for civil society organization contributing to peaceful and democratic development in the countries (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia) (EU Neighbors South):
https://lnkd.in/emCsUyfa
UNESCO and the United Nations publish first guide for African teachers on educating about atrocity crimes (UNESCO):
https://lnkd.in/evaCQ4F3
… Terrorist Attack Survivors’ Personal Experiences with Hate Speech and Threats (Terrorism and Political Violence):
https://lnkd.in/eheZfhrn
Reshare… Revisiting the Theatre of Terror in CVE (ICCT):
https://buff.ly/3pCl3hX
Middle Eastern Balance: Achieving Security, Peace, and Countering Extremism (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/eES5WA7G
STRIVE Global II assists local organizations in the design of countering violent extremism programs, research, and provides grants for implementation and monitoring and evaluation (Hedayah):
https://lnkd.in/evq64wqM
The Link between Misinformation and Radicalisation (International Centre for Counter-Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/eqhUKAc3
Book review: Extremism and Counter Extremism Narratives in Pakistan: An Analysis of Narrative Building (South Asia Journal):
https://lnkd.in/eTY5VVZf
Online Radicalisation: A Rapid Review Of The Literature (CREST Research):
https://lnkd.in/ekMx9c6c
Can Religious Peacebuilding Help Fight the Spread of Jihadism in Africa? (ISPI):
https://lnkd.in/ePYWeA74
MalHate : Hate Speech Detection in Malayalam Regional Language (IEEE):
https://lnkd.in/eJQNv_wC
Online Regulation Series 3.0 (Tech Against Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/ed59FUrV
The datafication of hate speech (SSOAR):
https://lnkd.in/ewKrcXN6
Bullied: Exploring the concepts of territorialism and groupthink involvement in workplace bullying (NursingOpen):
https://lnkd.in/ewx39Dma
Addressing online hate speech (Africa Renewal, UN):
https://lnkd.in/ethZdEAz
Counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST) 2023 (accessible) (UK Home Office):
https://lnkd.in/e-xzTdev
Women Play Key Role In Counter Extremism (ADF):
https://lnkd.in/e7HbnVug
A Comparative Perspective on AI Regulation (Lawfare):
https://lnkd.in/eE5-eFBG
Online Hate Speech: An Attempt To Idenitfy And Regulate Challenges Of Online Hate Speech In India (ECB):
https://lnkd.in/emSyxNvP
Understanding the relationship between radicalisation and the Media in North Macedonia (ELIAMEP):
https://lnkd.in/ejPWWquu
Educating the Rational Emotions: An Affective Response to Extremism (Educational Theory):
https://lnkd.in/eWcfRZ58
Counter-extremism: How can children access legal support when they have committed no crime? (The Justice Gap):
https://lnkd.in/e5n_YzFX
Free Speech Social Media Doesn’t Exist. Why laws banning hate speech and misinformation are already redundant (Foreign Policy):
https://lnkd.in/eJqf-sXJ
Futures for research on hate speech in online social media platforms (SSOAR):
https://lnkd.in/e_3kfMHF
Understanding UK university academic staff attitudes towards recognising and responding to student radicalisation (BERJ):
https://lnkd.in/eg-FQJYY
Online hate and the contentious case of stirring up hatred offences (Oñati Socio-legal Series, Spain):
https://lnkd.in/gSz3Qdav
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) draft Bill – Report Summary (UK Parliament):
https://lnkd.in/gEuKJCH8
“We decide!”: Telekom calls for commitment against hate on the net (Telekom):
https://lnkd.in/gjBzJN4F
RI, France must support women in UN peacekeeping: minister (Antary, Indonesia):
https://lnkd.in/e_dFkJer
Terrorism suspects: Trial or reintegration? (Business Day, Nigeria):
https://lnkd.in/efBMjzTa
Deradicalization Efforts In Prisons With Awards At The 2023 BNPT Awards (VOI, Indonesia):
https://lnkd.in/emFArcnp
Video… Parents for Peace, Stopping Groups That Recruit: Exploring Hope (On the Brink):
https://lnkd.in/eXcvgJMC
More funding for jobs to prevent threat of radical extremism in Nottingham (NottinghamWorld):
https://lnkd.in/ec8jFSSR
Rising online hate comments, fake news causing real-life harm (Korea JoongAng Daily):
https://lnkd.in/e8kYRYRy
Artificial intelligence must be grounded in human rights, says High Commissioner (OHCHR):
https://lnkd.in/e74TqdZB
The EU and CT-P/CVE in its external action (CEPS):
https://lnkd.in/ey46ryPr
Researchers: Hate speech on economics website is traced to Stanford, other top universities (CBS Bay Area):
https://lnkd.in/eEnuhafy
RAN LOCAL Working Group meeting – The future and position of local P/CVE strategies and approaches, Budapest 08-09 June 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/gykmW3-Q
Tackling violence against women and girls in sport (UNESCO via sportanddev):
https://lnkd.in/epCgGGK2
Federal regulators launch investigation into ChatGPT creator OpenAI (Scripps News):
https://lnkd.in/egVBJK2y
Consensus on community guidelines: an experimental study on the legitimacy of content removal in social media (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Nature):
https://lnkd.in/expmVuA7
Has Côte d’Ivoire found the solution to violent extremism? (ISS):
https://lnkd.in/eX2cKRdE
THE CONTRIBUTION OF ANTI-CORRUPTION MEASURES FOR THE PREVENTION AND COUNTERING OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM (Transparency International):
https://lnkd.in/eyh8wjkN
Research Rooted in Machine Learning Challenges Conventional Thinking About the Pathways to Violent Extremism (National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice):
https://lnkd.in/enbs7hMH
Combating violent radicalisation through preventive work (Ministry of the Interior, Finland):
https://lnkd.in/eju4NuUV
The Promise—and Pitfalls—of Researching Extremism Online (Homeland Security News Wire):
https://lnkd.in/erAyRtJs
The (moral) language of hate (Oxford Academic):
https://lnkd.in/eWYJKJnm
How the pandemic shaped teenagers’ views on violence: exploring the complexities of post-confinement attitudes (Frontiers in Education):
https://lnkd.in/eMmwhPdX
New Analytical Method Reveals Insights into Violent Extremism (Fagen Wasanni Technologies):
https://lnkd.in/gdbP4cT2
Countering Hate Speech: Islamabad Police and FIA Jointly Target Disruptive Social Media Accounts (BNN Network):
https://lnkd.in/gV67QA5u
Growing concern with youth radicalism, terrorism threat to Singapore remains high: ISD (CNA):
https://lnkd.in/ePxMs6t8
Hateful Usernames in Online Multiplayer Games (ADL):
https://lnkd.in/etipeuZf
Legislating to Control Online Hate Speech: A Corpus-Assisted Semantic Analysis of French Parliamentary Debates (International Journal for the Semiotics of Law):
https://lnkd.in/ebCqbYqZ
Validation of the multidimensional bystander responses to racist hate speech scale and its association with empathy and moral disengagement among adolescents (Aggressive Behavior):
https://lnkd.in/eNnansXH
Online Platforms Become Weapons For Terrorism (The Hills Times, India):
https://lnkd.in/e9snCDKg
Foreshadowing Terror: Exploring the Time of Online Manifestos Prior to Lone Wolf Attacks (Studies in Conflict & Terrorism):
https://lnkd.in/dPXzc9E8
Internet For Trust: Towards a Multistakeholder Approach in Regulating Digital Platforms (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford):
https://lnkd.in/e7K49Sxw
On The Feminist Cause Of Media Literacy And Combating Fake News (Feminism in India):
https://lnkd.in/egsnYNps
Education, Extremism, and Aversion to Compromise (Educational Theory):
https://lnkd.in/eVhFUee5
Julia Ebner: ‘We’re at the beginning of the digital Middle Ages. It’s a very dangerous road’ (El Pais):
https://lnkd.in/e9xU5a9V
Hate on the Internet: New contact point helps researchers affected by violence (Teller Report):
https://lnkd.in/eYKc5aB3
Exploring issues of online hate speech against minority religious groups in Bangladesh (Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication):
https://lnkd.in/e38JThYQ
Lived Experiences Of Contact With Counter-Terrorism Policies And Practices (CREST Research):
https://lnkd.in/eGjUt-ez
Public Mitigation Of Terrorism Risk: A Rapid Review Of The Literature (CREST Research):
https://lnkd.in/e97iuCaH
FÖRDERSTOPP FÜR DEMOKRATIEPROJEKT „FIREWALL“ (Belltower):
https://lnkd.in/gKtWr2np
Identifying Slurs and Lexical Hate Speech via Light-Weight Dimension Projection in Embedding Space (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/ghbe7PSE
Global Alliance Against Digital Hate and Extremism Demands Twitter Reinstate Trust and Safety Council (GPAHE):
https://lnkd.in/eUnd95h9
Can AI-Generated Text be Reliably Detected? (arXiv):
https://lnkd.in/g9UQy9Qb
Engage – how to deal with hate speech? (United Nations):
https://lnkd.in/eFqxUZwu
Violent Extremism Is Still Spreading Online. There’s a Way to Stop It (Cyberscoop):
https://lnkd.in/e84fv3xT
Online Abuse: Literature Review and Policy Context (European Online Grooming Project_):
https://lnkd.in/eT6kUa-s
The thinning delineation between different types of terrorism as distinctions in terror actions blur (AML Intelligence):
https://lnkd.in/eqXaNKuz
Rule By Example: Harnessing Logical Rules for Explainable Hate Speech Detection (Papers with Code):
https://lnkd.in/enJpuqB8
Understanding extremism in Scotland: research findings (Scottish Government):
https://lnkd.in/gDKm3PgG
Whitepaper Zu Desinformation Und Hate Speech Veröffentlicht (CDR Initiative):
https://lnkd.in/eCC-5KF5
Digital hate speech and othering: The construction of hate speech from Malaysian perspectives (Cogent Arts & Humanities):
https://lnkd.in/eBGQBpKR
2023 Global Education Monitoring Report: Technology in Education (UNESCO):
https://lnkd.in/ejGSQ6VH
Teens and Cyberbullying 2022 (Pew Research Center):
https://lnkd.in/gw2C9gAZ
Audio… “Going Mainstream”: The Role of the Internet in Mainstreaming Extremist Ideas (Tech Against Terrorism Podcast):
https://lnkd.in/gxwKNSUE
Cyberbullying as a Form of Aggressive Behavior (SHS Web of Conferences):
https://lnkd.in/e5P8gCXM
Video… Vidhya Ramalingam, Moonshot: Exploring Hope (On the Brink):
https://lnkd.in/eYwb2zwY
Audio… The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism (University of Oxford Podcasts):
https://lnkd.in/e3uwQMQg
White Jihad: How White Supremacists Adopt Jihadi Narratives, Aesthetics, and Tactics (Terrorism and Political Violence):
https://t.co/8nNOMJNvgO
Prisons launch programme to counter violent extremism (The Star, Kenya):
https://lnkd.in/eZkBvQjV
Toolkit on dealing with conspiracy narratives, July 2023 (EU RAN):
https://lnkd.in/en5tADaB
Bullying and victimization in schools: Causal relationship between adolescent disruptive behavior, sleep schedules, and extended school hours (Psychology in the Schools):
https://lnkd.in/egpGcbxR
CVE policy outline (Dawn, Pakistan):
https://lnkd.in/eQHP2KnY
Utilizing Islamic Ethical Framework to Prevent Radicalization: The New Way Forward (International Research Journal on Islamic Studies):
https://lnkd.in/e3QiBc6W
J7 Global Task Force born in order to address surge in antisemitism internationally (CFCA):
https://lnkd.in/eTE3Gn4F
This AI Paper Explores the Potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Text Annotation Tasks with a Focus on ChatGPT (Marktechpost):
https://lnkd.in/ezYezGY4
Hate Speech Detection via Dual Contrastive Learning (Journal of Latex class files):
https://lnkd.in/eWhWht6w
What should the EU do about violent extremism? (CEPS):
https://lnkd.in/ea4t7ear
Second Meeting of Maldives-India Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism, Countering Violent Extremism and De-radicalisation (Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India):
https://lnkd.in/env4WKMU
The Most Surprising Online Bullying Statistics in 2023 (Gitnux):
https://lnkd.in/g4YxvtxY
Militant Jihadi Digital Footprint and Repositories of Harmful Content (ACTRI):
https://lnkd.in/enG3ubwk
The world urgently needs to broaden its approach to counter-extremism (The National, UAE):
https://lnkd.in/eTiy28iz
Violent Extremism in Western Sahel (Indian Council of World Affairs):
https://lnkd.in/eX8mGKRq
Video… PTV World Coverage | Seminar | Countering Violent Extremism | 18 July 2023 (CASS):
https://lnkd.in/eqPhBPjV
Govt decides to amend National Counter Violent Extremism Policy (ARY News, Pakistan):
https://lnkd.in/enkmAdhp
Auto Detection of Hate Speech on Social Media Techniques and Challenges (International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research):
https://lnkd.in/em2KXYE9
Why are female journalists targets for online abuse, and what can be done about it? (The Journal, Ireland):
https://lnkd.in/eFCD27zq
Promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech: UK statement at the UN General Assembly (GOV.UK):
https://lnkd.in/e9pyjwcx
IREL at SemEval-2023 Task 11: User Conditioned Modelling for Toxicity Detection in Subjective Tasks (ACL Anthology):
https://lnkd.in/eMMgBxvs
Government agencies tasked with developing and intensifying counter-terrorism efforts to strengthen Sweden’s security (Government Offices of Sweden):
https://lnkd.in/e5suqtHZ
Second Meeting of the Counterterrorism Law Enforcement Forum Focuses on Countering Violent Extremism (U.S. Department of State):
https://lnkd.in/e-xHNDfS
Increasing knowledge about cognitive biases: An evaluation study of a radicalization prevention campaign targeted at European adolescents and young adults (Journal of Children and Media):
https://lnkd.in/etJTC8d3
Harmful Content Has Surged on Twitter, Keeping Advertisers Away (TIME):
https://lnkd.in/ek_M3aPV
American psychologists: the mere detection of hateful language is not a real solution (Jerusalem Post):
https://lnkd.in/eJyydvip
Youth Recruitment Fuels Extremism in Northeast Nigeria (BNN Network):
https://lnkd.in/g_GAGdYA
5 Ways to Reduce the Risk of Cyberbullying (allBusiness):
https://lnkd.in/edPp8Rkc
Labour outlines law to ban training AI chatbot to spread terror (BBC News):
https://lnkd.in/emXdm9q5
We’re at risk of a possible spillover of extremist activities to Ghana — CEO of Ideapath Consult warns (Modern Ghana):
https://lnkd.in/edzniS-Z
Twitter Claims It’s Combating Hate Speech. But All the Evidence Says Otherwise (them):
https://lnkd.in/eaTT3_D3
Driving Community Change in Violent Environment. The Power of the Pen (Defy Hate Now):
https://lnkd.in/evT6vMJN
Next Phase in the SGSecure Movement (Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore):
https://lnkd.in/ewTkbDEE
French media authority asks platforms to ramp up fight against hate speech (Euractiv):
https://lnkd.in/eaCgnMNY
“We want to give people back their dignity on the net” (Telekom):
https://lnkd.in/eQ-trc6v
Video… TSC Webinar: Bringing Terrorists to Justice: Accountability for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (The Soufan Center):
https://lnkd.in/ec9BwrQB
No help for victims of abuse in the metaverse, social experiment finds (WIRED):
https://lnkd.in/ey2jgNSh
Free eBook… Justice Adel Maged honoured for combating hate speech and extremism (Ahram Online):
https://lnkd.in/evnJCag9
The digital augmentation of extremism: Reviewing and guiding online extremism research from a sociotechnical perspective (Information Systems Journal):
https://lnkd.in/es_e8ePP
User-Aware Multilingual Abusive Content Detection in Social Media (Information Processing and Management):
https://lnkd.in/eK5nkEfB
The Individual Consequences of Hate Speech: A Comparison of Defamation and… Hate Speech/Group Libel (Phil Archive):
https://lnkd.in/eRiedRbD
The Digital Services Act and the EU as the Global Regulator of the Internet (SSRN):
https://lnkd.in/eFZxGdjG
Extremists could use AI to plan attacks, Home Office warns (The Guardian):
https://lnkd.in/eW3zmc4S
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