Gender
The Role of the Internet in the Jihadist Mobilisation of Women in Spain
July 11, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
How ISIS’s Language Changed Over Time: More Concern with Females and More “Net-speak”
May 23, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Online Activities and Extremist Attitudes in Adolescence: An Empirical Analysis with a Gender Differentiation
September 18, 2023Radicalization research is dedicated to analyzing factors related to radicalization processes, which in turn can lead to extremism. One factor is frequently discussed: the role of the Internet. This paper examines the relationship between active and passive online activities, including consumption, networking, and posting, and extremist attitudes in the field of Islamism and right-wing extremism ...
The Incelosphere: Exposing pathways into incel communities and the harms they pose to women and children
September 18, 2023This new report, a product of the Center for Countering Digital Hate’s new Quant Lab, is a systematic study of over a million posts over the past eighteen months on the world’s leading incels forum. By stripping language down to mathematics, we can eke out trends that provide real insight into incel communities. Our Quant ...
Strain theory, resilience, and far-right extremism: the impact of gender, life experiences and the internet
September 18, 2023There has been a notable increase in support for far-right ideologies across the West. The seriousness of this threat has been acknowledged by the UK government which has banned certain far-right groups using terrorism legislation. While criminological theories have been useful in explaining general criminality, they have been under-utilised in explaining extremism and terrorism. Agnew’s ...
Duality of Technology Nexus in Combating Terrorism and Violent Extremism in Support of Gender Mainstreaming
September 18, 2023Gender equality plays a pivotal role in combating terrorism and violent extremist in the global arena. This chapter provides a brief overview of evolution, definition and overall goals of gender mainstreaming and analysis as a tool for understanding the unique needs of men and women to achieve gender equality at the institutional level by developing ...
Mapping right-wing extremism in Victoria: Applying a gender lens to develop prevention and deradicalisation approaches
September 18, 2023This project aims to map right-wing extremism in Victoria through the lens of gender. It begins from the premise that there is an underexplored connection between antifeminist sentiment and far-right extremist sentiment. It does this by focusing on select Victorian-based online groups that have an anti-feminist and far-right profile. The project also works with stakeholders ...
(Young) Women’s Usage of Social Media and Lessons for Preventing Violent Extremism
September 18, 2023The RAN small-scale expert meeting on (young) women’s usage of social media and lessons learned for preventing violet extremism (PVE) was aimed at unpacking some of the gaps. This paper summarises the highlights of the discussion, discusses the vulnerabilities that are specific to (young) women, explains how recruiters use these vulnerabilities online and, finally, presents ...