COUNTERING ONLINE RADICALIZATION - LESSONS LEARNED
COUNTERING ONLINE RADICALIZATION - LESSONS LEARNED

Summary/Abstract: A feature of contemporary conflicts is the increasing number of actors who are willing and able to create both online and offline effects through online activities, and social media are an integrated part thereof. To that end, social media was used by terrorists as recruitment, propaganda, and information tool and the intelligence structures had to find the necessary awareness programs to react to. In this paper we tried to make an analysis of some national awareness strategies (the US, the UK, France, Italy, and Germany ones) in order to set up a guideline of the positive results registered by some countries in this field.

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