VOX Pol Workshop: Tackling Online Extremism in Southern Asia
This workshop explores the digital extremist landscape in South and Southeast Asia and the challenges and responses to tackling online extremism. The workshop brings together experts and practitioners researching extremism across the ideological spectrum in Asia, to explore a broad range of issues, including but not limited to the current state of online extremism in South and Southeast Asia, the preferred platforms of the different online communities, the connections between these online spaces, how these online spaces are being used, the narratives found in extremist online content, intersections with narratives from other extremist communities globally, and the measures adopted by different security actors to counter online extremism.
Chair: Miraji Mohamed, CYTREC; Dublin City University
Speakers:
Ms Munira Mustaffa, Chasseur Group
Mr Janeen Fernando, United Nations
Mr Hari Prasad, CRITICA Research and Analysis