The COVID pandemic has had a significant impact on the growth and trajectory of violent extremism. AVERT members have contributed their expertise and been featured in related media coverage about the pandemic and violent extremism. Here are some highlighted contributions by AVERT members.
Online far right extremist and conspiratorial narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic
Lise Waldek, Dr Julian Drogen & Brian Ballsun Stanton, Government report
How has COVID-19 Changed the Violent Extremism Landscape
Professor Michele Grossman, Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats
In COVID’s shadow, global terrorism goes quiet.
Dr Greg Barton, The Conversation
Seizing the opportunity: how the Australian far-right milieu uses the pandemic to push its nationalist and anti-globalist grand narratives.
Dr Mario Peucker, CRIS
COVID-19 and America’s Counterterrorism Response
Lydia Khalil, War on the Rocks
Coping with Crisis: How much ‘resilience’ is on display’
Professor Michele Grossman, Lowy Institute
The pandemic has provided fertile conditions for conspiracy theories and “conspirituality” in Australia
Anna Halafoff, Enqi Weng, Cristina Rocha, Andrew Singleton, Alexandra Roginski, and Emily Marriott, ABC Religion & Ethics
Far right extremists involved in protests
Dr Debra Smith, ABC News Breakfast
Resilience, Radicalisation and Democracy in the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Vivian Gerrand, Open Democracy
Why the Victorian protests should concern us all
Dr Joshua Roose, The Conversation
Impact of COVID-19 on conflict and peace in Pakistan
Dr Zahid Ahmed, Peace Insight