Emerging trends in violent extremism conducive to terrorism: a focus on extreme right-wing terrorism

Emerita Torres, current Senior Research Fellow, moderated a virtual round table of the Global Research Network on “Emerging trends in violent extremism conducive to terrorism: a focus on extreme right-wing terrorism,” in her prior capacity as our Director of Policy Research and Programs. Taking place on October 6, 2020, the virtual event was hosted by the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) to help prepare Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC) members and other Member States for a CTC Open Briefing thereafter. Other panelists included Dr. Kacper Rekawek, a researcher at the Counter Extremism Project; Dr. Natalie James, Head of the Counter-Extremism Research Unit at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right; Dr. Elizabeth Pearson, a lecturer at the Cyber Threats Research Centre at Swansea University; Dr. Matthew Feldman, Director of the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right; Tom Keatinge, Director of the Royal United Services Institute; and Dr. Cathrine Thorleifsson, a researcher at the Centre for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo. Emerita stated, “Extreme right-wing terrorism is a transnational challenge. Its tentacles reach from Australia to Ukraine, and Norway to New Zealand but it has evolved at a different pace in different parts of the world.”