Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 10 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter.
UPCOMING EVENT
VOX-Pol Coordinator Stuart Macdonald is co-organising and speaking at the webinar, Addressing Terrorism and Social Media in West Africa, taking place this Thursday 10 October. VOX-Pol Member Alta Grobbelaar is also speaking at the event, and it’s chaired by Christogonus Ibe, of the group, African Youths Initiative on Crime Prevention.
The link to register is here:
https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FwMrC7FrRku74G8hi2Nwhg
VOX-Pol ONLINE WORKSHOPS
The recent VOX-Pol Online Workshop on open source intelligence, OSINT: Practice and Ethics is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel.
Our YouTube channel has a playlist dedicated to our Online Workshops, which so far features:
- Content Moderation and (Violent) Extremism
- The Normalisation of Extremist Subcultures
- Evolving Contours of (Online) Extremism and P/CVE in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Artificial Intelligence and Extremism
- Tackling Online Extremism in Southern Asia
- The Next Gen Academic Survival Series: ECR Safety, Wellbeing and Ethics
- Borderline Online Content
- OSINT: Practice and Ethics
NEW FROM THE VOX-Pol BLOG
- Bangladesh’s political transition viewed as opportunity by Islamic State and al-Qaeda, 2 October 2024, by Sean McCafferty and Marjuka Binte Afzal
- Three steps to talking to a loved one at risk of being radicalised into rioting, 25 September 2024, by Anthony English.
- Middle-aged radicalisation: why are so many of Britain’s rioters in their 40s and 50s?, 18 September 2024, by Sara H Wilford
- Emotions & Belonging in Far-Right Social Media Space, 11 September 2024, by Jonathan Collins
- “Dead society”: Tracing the Online Dimension of a Militant Accelerationist-Inspired Attack in Turkey, 4 September 2024, by Arthur Bradley
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