Institute for Strategic Dialogue

The 9/11 Wars

by Jason Burke  · 1 Sep 2011  · 885pp  · 271,563 words

8, 2004. Gallup, Gallup Poll of the Islamic World, Washington, February 2002. The Gallup Coexist Index 2009, A Global Study of Interfaith Relations, May 2009. Institute for Strategic Dialogue (Jytte Klausen), Al Qaeda-Affiliated and ‘Homegrown’ Jihadism in the UK: 1999–2010, September 2010. Institute for the Study of War (Carl Forsberg), Taliban’s

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blow up a nightclub in central London?’, Observer, January 20, 2008. A later study published in 2010 arrived at a median age of 27.6. Institute for Strategic Dialogue and Jytte Klausen, Al Qaeda-Affiliated and ‘Homegrown’ Jihadism in the UK: 1999–2010, 2010, p. 10. Many studies have been done showing that psychological

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Netherlands has been lowered’, press release, December 15, 2009. 30. Author interview, Dr Alain Bauer, Paris, July 2009. 31. Author interview, Paris, July 2009. 32. Institute for Strategic Dialogue (Jytte Klausen), Al Qaeda-Affiliated and ‘Homegrown’ Jihadism in the UK: 1999–2010, September 2010, p. 8. 33. Author interviews, Berlin, September, 2009. 34. Author

Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists

by Julia Ebner  · 20 Feb 2020  · 309pp  · 79,414 words

. Like storms, extremist movements are fast, have strong destructive potential and can change direction at any time. In my day job at the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), I monitor extremist movements across the UK, Europe and the US. My team works with cutting-edge technology partners and universities such as MIT

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the support we received from the US.’ He doesn’t know that I spent the last few weeks investigating GI’s funding networks. At the Institute for Strategic Dialogue we found that most of the €200,000 they received in donations for their #DefendEurope campaign came from US sources – despite its exclusive focus on

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I am afraid we might see a growth in this come the next decade.’ Deep Fakes and Cyber-Warfare Techniques Jacob Davey, researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and expert on the international far right’s online playbook, argues that we have seen a range of activities associated with internet culture entering the

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technologies to our advantage to identify online users at risk of radicalisation and help them escape the toxic narratives of extremist recruiters? In 2017, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) piloted the world’s first deradicalisation project to employ social media network analyses to identify members of violent extremist movements and use social media

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/this-guy-wants-to-start-his-own-aryan-country. 18Jacob Davey and Julia Ebner, ‘The Fringe Insurgency: Connectivity, Convergence and Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right’, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), October 2017. Available at https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/The-Fringe-Insurgency-221017.pdf. 19Kevin C. Thompson, ‘WATCHING THE STORMFRONT

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, here Hutchins, Marcus here Hyppönen, Mikko here Identity Evropa here, here iFrames here Illuminati here Incels (Involuntary Celibacy) here, here Independent here Inkster, Nigel here Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Intelius here International Business Times here International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) here International

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here ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government) here, here, here Zuckerberg, Mark here, here A Note on the Author Julia Ebner is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, where she leads projects on online extremism, disinformation and hate speech. She has given evidence to numerous governments and parliamentary working groups, and has acted

The Science of Hate: How Prejudice Becomes Hate and What We Can Do to Stop It

by Matthew Williams  · 23 Mar 2021  · 592pp  · 125,186 words

York: Viking, 2011. 3. Information Commissioner’s Office, ‘ICO Investigation into Use of Personal Information and Political Influence’, London: Information Commissioner’s Office, 2020. 4. Institute for Strategic Dialogue, ‘Far-Right Exploitation of Covid-19’, London: ISD, 2020; S. Parkin, ‘“A Threat to Health Is Being Weaponised”: Inside the Fight against Online Hate Crime

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possible based on the current climate of public discourse – further to the right (see Figure 19).5 Fig. 19: The Overton window. The London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue analysed ten thousand posts and two hundred pieces of online propaganda related to the rally.6 The alt-right were targeting students between the ages

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. 5. J. Daniels, ‘The Algorithmic Rise of the “Alt-Right”’, Contexts 17 (2018), 60–5. 6. J. Davey and J. Ebner, ‘The Fringe Insurgency’, London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2017. 7. J. Albright, ‘The #Election2016 Micro-Propaganda Machine’, 2016, medium.com/@d1gi/the-election2016-micro-propaganda-machine-383449cc1fba. 8. A. Hern, ‘Facebook Protects Far

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’, 12 May 2020, www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/12/covid-19-fueling-anti-asian-racism-and-xenophobia-worldwide. 31. Institute for Strategic Dialogue, ‘Far-Right Exploitation of Covid-19’, London: ISD, 2020. 32. Institute for Strategic Dialogue, ‘Covid-19 Disinformation Briefing No. 2’, London: ISD, 2020. 33. A. Goldman, ‘Man Suspected of Planning Attack on Missouri Hospital

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Is Killed, Officials Say’, New York Times, 25 March 2020. 34. Institute for Strategic Dialogue, ‘Covid-19 Disinformation Briefing No. 2’. 35. M. L. Williams et al., ‘Hate in the Machine: Anti-Black and Anti-Muslim Social Media Posts as

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, 1; reasons for hate offending, 1; trigger events, 1, 2, 3; what it means to hate, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Instagram, 1, 2, 3 Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 1 institutional racism, 1 instrumental crimes, 1 insula: brain and signs of prejudice, 1, 2, 3; facial expressions, 1, 2; fusiform face area, 1; hacking

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth About Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All

by Laura Bates  · 2 Sep 2020  · 364pp  · 119,398 words

not a tiny number. It is not an isolated group of a few dozen outliers. When I meet Jacob Davey, a project manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, who has studied incels and other manosphere groups, he stresses that this is a ‘transnational’ movement. While he believes that the largest incel community is

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and chans and the other foot firmly planted on the solid ground of media platforms, political influence and prime-time television. Jacob Davey, at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, tells me: This mainstreaming component is something we’re seeing with the extreme right – by having more central figureheads, who can present a slightly more

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observed before. But there would be discussion about other forms of online grooming.’ On a grey, spring afternoon, I visit the secret location of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based ‘think and do tank’ that pioneers policy and operational responses to violent extremism. The organisation combines research and analysis with government advisory

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, looking out onto a bustling open-plan office, I meet with Jacob Davey, as well as an associate in technology, communications and education at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, and a communications co-ordinator. Davey immediately confirms that the anti-extremist field is missing a focus on the issue of misogynistic extremism: ‘In terms

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radicalisation, extremism and the role of toxic masculinity, that’s something that I think there’s not enough coverage on, as a sector.’ Within the Institute for Strategic Dialogue itself, Davey does the most work on the manosphere and misogynistic extremism, with some of his colleagues carrying out separate work on ‘the role of

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… tangentially’, when it intersects with his ‘primary focus’, which is the ‘extreme right wing’. When I ask if there is any staff member at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue tasked solely with focusing on misogynistic extremism, he tells me that there isn’t, though the organisation’s website lists fifty-six members of staff

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of the men-specific research and the men’s movement research, but there’s no one who has that specific portfolio within the organisation.’ The Institute for Strategic Dialogue is far from unusual in this – indeed, the fact that Davey himself has built a consideration of the intersections with the manosphere into his work

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World

by Timothy Garton Ash  · 23 May 2016  · 743pp  · 201,651 words

Protect Expression and Promote Equality. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Briggs, Rachel, and Feve, Sebastien. 2013: Review of Programs to Counter Narratives of Violent Extremism. London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Broughton, John. 2008: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. Beijing: O’Reilly. Brown, Donald E. 1991: Human Universals. New York: McGraw-Hill. Brown, Ian, ed. 2013: Research

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

by Jesselyn Cook  · 22 Jul 2024  · 321pp  · 95,778 words

-dont-want-you-to-hear/. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Black Americans, as well as Hispanics: Brian Schaffner, “Survey on QAnon and Conspiracy Beliefs,” Institute for Strategic Dialogue, October 2020, https://www.isdglobal.org/​wp-content/​uploads/​2020/​10/​qanon-and-conspiracy-beliefs-full_toplines.pdf. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Asian

Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World

by James Ball  · 19 Jul 2023  · 317pp  · 87,048 words

in front of a computer, in his parents’ basement,’ says Rashad Ali,18 a senior fellow at the anti-extremism and disinformation think tank the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Ali – once a senior figure in the extremist-leaning Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, who now researches counter-extremism – is setting out the stereotypical picture

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, here, here, here, here Illuminati, here, here incels, here, here, here, here, here Infowars, here, here Instagram, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), here, here Intel, here International Monetary Fund (IMF), here ISIS, here Islamist extremism, here, here, here It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, here ‘James

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics

by Peter Geoghegan  · 2 Jan 2020  · 388pp  · 111,099 words

. The Italian far right also had international assistance. Message boards on 4chan and 8chan served as multilingual global hubs. An analysis by the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue concluded that the 2018 Italian election campaign showed “the maturation of an international consciousness around tactics which have previously worked well for extreme-right activists

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, March 2019. 53 Julia Ebner and Jacob Davey, ‘Mainstreaming Mussolini: How the Extreme Right Attempted to “Make Italy Great Again” in the 2018 Italian Election’, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, March 2018. See also www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Mainstreaming-Mussolini-Report-28.03.18.pdf; accessed 26 Jan. 2020. 54 Ibid

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

by Peter Pomerantsev  · 29 Jul 2019  · 240pp  · 74,182 words

/british-authorities-ban-three-foreign-right-wing-activists-idUKKCN1GO2LO. 23 Ebner, Julia and Jacob Davey, The Fringe Insurgency: Connectivity and Convergence of the Extreme-Right (Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2018); https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/The-Fringe-Insurgency-221017.pdf. 24 ‘Text of Sakharov Letter to Carter on Human Rights

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what he does today: extracting people from the sort of movements he was once a part of. He works at an organisation blandly entitled the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), which tracks online extremist campaigns, advises governments and technology companies on what regulation they should (and shouldn’t) introduce to tackle them, and experiments

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Peace Report 2018: Analysing the Factors That Sustain Peace, Sydney, October 2018; http://visionofhumanity.org/app/uploads/2018/11/Positive-Peace-Report-2018.pdf. 4 Institute for Strategic Dialogue, ‘“I Left to Be Closer to Allah”: Learning about Foreign Fighters from Family and Friends’, 2018; http://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt  · 14 Jun 2018  · 531pp  · 125,069 words

in Julia Ebner’s new book, The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far Right Extremism. Ebner, an Austrian researcher at the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue, did harrowing fieldwork befriending members of ISIS and members of far-right groups, such as the English Defense League. In an interview, she summarized her

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists

by Joan Smith  · 5 Apr 2019

Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World

by Jamie Bartlett  · 12 Jun 2017  · 390pp  · 109,870 words