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Umati Final Report

2013

This 44 page resource is the comprehensive final report of the Umati Project that focused on monitoring hate speech online.

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Sub Saharan African Terrorist Groups’ Use of the ...

February 2014

This 2014 article is based on a study of terrorist groups’ use of web technologies in Sub Saharan Africa. The study investigated 245 terrorist groups operating across 45 countries in the Sub Saharan African region as determined by data held within the Global Terrorism Database (GTD).

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Lights, Camera, Jihad: Al-Shabaab’s Western Medi ...

2012

This netnographic study examines al-Shabaab’s Western media strategy. The authors focus their study on the group’s recruitment of Western Muslims through the analysis of primary sources, interviews in East Africa and a quantitative analysis of the group’s Twitter outputs.

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Violent Jihadism in Real Time: Al-Shabaab’s Use ...

January 2013

This short article is the Research Brief for the full report: “Lights, Camera, Jihad: Al-Shabaab’s Western Media Strategy”, which is also available in this Portal.

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This portal gathers an annotated collection of recent research on the ways in which social media and new technologies may be leveraged in the fight against violent extremism

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