What is nihilistic violent extremism? The ‘new threat’ eyed by CSIS, police

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11839049/what-is-nihilistic-violent-extremism/

CSIS says violent extremism radicalization becoming more complex to counter

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11826598/csis-annual-report-violent-extremism-threats/

Terror groups are targeting youth. What Canadian parents can look for

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11818812/764-network-extremism-protecting-kids/

“You can find online extreme content from the left but not that much. It's pretty hard. On the right. you can find it literally everywhere. It's just overflowing.”
Watch now on #CLTV
#ViolentExtremism

https://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2025/09/zadrozny-online-extremism-almost?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=106881

“The Intern In Charge”: Meet The 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked To Lead Terrorism Prevention

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/05/the-intern-in-charge-meet-the-22-year-old-trumps-team-picked-to-lead-terrorism-prevention/

"Arno Michaelis is a former white nationalist skinhead, lead singer of the neo-Nazi metal band Centurion, and member of Hammerskin Nation, one of the most violent white supremacist gangs in the US. From 1987 to 1994, Michaelis played a central role in spreading neo-Nazi ideology through music, street violence, and recruitment efforts across the USA and beyond.
Michaelis provides a rare look inside the world of violent extremism, detailing how white nationalist groups recruit young men, fund their operations, and use propaganda to radicalize followers. He describes the brutality of life inside the movement, the constant state of fear and paranoia, and how his involvement led to addiction, crime, and self-destruction.
Michaelis became an anti-hate activist, speaker, and author. He works with Parents for Peace to deradicalize extremists, exposing the tactics used by white nationalist groups and guiding individuals away from the influence of extremism through prevention. He is the author of "My Life After Hate" and "The Gift of Our Wounds," which was cowritten with Pardeep Singh Kaleka, whose father was killed in the Oak Creek Sikh temple shooting."—Insider

How US Neo-Nazism Actually Works >

https://youtu.be/d-g3Z8IWsdU?feature=shared

#Nazism #ViolentExtremism #recruitment #OnlineGaming #SocialMedia #Skinheads

Milan Obaidi, Robin Bergh, Simon Ozer and our IRIS research group leader Cornelia Sindermann have published an article in the journal European Review of Social Psychology.

ABSTRACT
The global threat of violent extremism (VE) has intensified in recent years, evidenced by a significant increase in violent incidents. Despite numerous theoretical and empirical explanations across disciplines, a lack of cross-fertilisation between these research domains has hindered the development of a comprehensive understanding of VE. To bridge this gap, this review integrates diverse lines of research into a comprehensive psychological model of VE, synthesising objective situations, subjective appraisals, and key individual psychological factors contributing to VE inclinations. We aim to develop a framework that more precisely demonstrates how these variables fit together, highlighting the added value of integration over piecemeal investigations. We specifically advocate for a multilevel approach that incorporates predictors from various levels of analysis to provide detailed mechanisms for how these variables relate to and complement one another. We further illuminate a multitude of mediation and moderation effects, some already tested empirically, while others await future research.

Full article: https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2025.2478735

#violentextremism #LLMs #europeanreviewofsocialpsychology