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Arie Perliger is a Professor and the Director of the graduate program in Security Studies at the School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell. In the past 20 years, he was engaged in an extensive study of issues related to terrorism and political violence, security policy and politics (including the nexus of ...

Jonathan Pieslak is Professor at The City College of New York and Graduate Center, CUNY where he specializes in the cultural and media dimensions of extremism, particularly audio and music. He is the author of two books, Radicalism & Music (Wesleyan University Press 2015), and Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War ...

Mario Peucker is an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities at Victoria University (Melbourne). He is an executive member of the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS), as well as a member of the Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism (AVERT) Research Network, where ...

Karmvir Padda is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of Waterloo. She holds an MA in Criminology from Simon Fraser University, where she had the privilege of working under the guidance of Dr. Richard Frank. Her research mainly focuses on radicalization, extremists’ use of the internet, right-wing extremism, online foreign interference (disinformation/misinformation), research ...

Samuel Olaniran’s research focuses on digital mis/disinformation and on the different forms of interpreting the appropriation of technology in different contexts. He is interested in how audiences in the Global South interact with global phenomena in unique ways that are distant from global framings. He is also interested in identifying coordinated inauthentic behaviour on social ...

Dr Lella Nouri is an Associate Professor of Criminology and the Co-Director of the University’s Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC). Lella is also a Co-Director of the 7.5m EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhanced Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence Driven Systems. Lella’s research specialism is in extremism, terrorist use of the ...

Weeda Mehran, PhD (Cambridge), MSc (Oxford) is a faculty member at the Department of Politics & Co-director of the Centre for Advanced International Studies (CAIS) at the University of Exeter. Dr Mehran has formerly worked at the Global Studies Institute, Georgia State University, McGill University and Dublin City University (as aVox-POL visiting scholar). She has ...

Acram A. Latiph is the Executive Director of the Institute for Peace and Development in Mindanao and a Professor of the Department of Economics, Mindanao State University – Marawi Campus. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Economics from San Beda College, Master of Science in Finance from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Advance ...

Ashton Kingdon is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Southampton. She is also an Advisory Board Member at the Accelerationism Research Consortium and a core member of the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN). Her research is interdisciplinary, combining criminology, history, and computer science to explore the ways in which extremists utilise technology ...

Lisa Kaati achieved a PhD in computer science from Uppsala University in 2008. Her principal research interests are in the area of terrorism and the Internet, and in particular how computer science, psychology, and statistics can be used to study different behaviors. She is the author of over 50 academic articles, book chapters, and several ...