young people

By Tim Legrand, Nathan Manning, and Melissa-Ellen Dowling Young people worldwide are increasingly exposed to violent ideas and ideologies in web-based communities. According to national security agencies, children as young as 12 are adopting extremist beliefs, folding issues of child safeguarding into national security concerns. While we know that exposure to extremist ideologies in online ...

By Andrew Glazzard The acclaimed Netflix drama Adolescence, released on Netflix in March 2025, has generated exceptional volumes of commentary about what it says about being a youth in the technologically enriched Britain of the 2020s. Kate Cantrell and Susan Hopkins, in an article written for The Conversation and republished on the VOX-Pol blog, summarise ...

By Kate Scott On December 6, 2024, the intelligence agencies of the Five Eyes alliance—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States—released a jointly authored report outlining the increasing concern of violent extremism among youth. The report sheds light on how extremist content online is being used to recruit, groom, and mobilize ...