Tackling online extremism in Southern Asia: mapping threats, challenges and responses
Mon, 15 Jan
|Virtual Event
This VoxPol workshop explores the digital extremist landscape in South and Southeast Asia and the challenges and responses to tackling online extremism.
Time & Location
15 Jan 2024, 13:00 – 14:30
Virtual Event
About the Event
How to join
To register your attendance at this online workshop, please email m.h.mohamed@swansea.ac.uk and you will receive a zoom link.
The workshop brings together experts and practitioners researching extremism across the ideological spectrum in Asia, to explore a broad range of issues, including but not limited to the current state of online extremism in South and Southeast Asia, the preferred platforms of the different online communities, the connections between these online spaces, how these online spaces are being used, the narratives found in extremist online content, intersections with narratives from other extremist communities globally, and the measures adopted by different security actors to counter online extremism.
Chair: Miraji Mohamed, CYTREC; Dublin City University
Speakers:
Ms Munira Mustaffa, Chasseur Group
Mr Janeen Fernando, United Nations
Mr Hari Prasad, CRITICA Research and Analysis