🇮🇶 When Islamic State captured Mosul in 2014, it destroyed public art as part of its attack on the city’s heritage and identity.

In this piece for XCEPT Research, Ali Al-Baroodi علي البارودي explores how the return of statues to Mosul is helping the city to recover👇

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What makes the decades-long Israeli–Palestinian conflict so intractable? As a cognitive scientist, I give my analysis in this CNN Opinion @CNN piece based on psychology research.

Read here: edition.cnn.com/2024/01/16/opi……

🧵to come

PODCAST🎙️

In a new episode of the War Studies Breaking Cycles of Conflict mini-series, XCEPT researchers Craig Larkin, Inna Rudolf, and Rajan Basra explore issues surrounding post-conflict reconstruction, reconciliation, and recovery in Iraq.

Listen 👇

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It was a real honour to speak at the CHACR annual conference at RMA Sandhurst yesterday. Thank you for having me!

What causes a peaceful movement to turn violent? Well we caught it in action using a longitudinal psychometric study. A VERY rare event in research.
Read it here: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

'Portsmouth man, 19, charged with weapons and terror offences'

This will be a very interesting case to watch, not just because it features 3D-printed guns 👀

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Elon Musk’s recent endorsement of a post saying Jews push anti-White hatred and mass immigration brings Demographic Conspiracy Theories like the “Great Replacement” to mind.

For months, I researched DCTs' evolution in the Western far right. Let’s take a closer look. 🧵/n

'There is an interesting link between Salafi-jihadists and the extreme right, where there is a complete conflation between Israel as a political project and Jews in general,' said Research Fellow Julien Bellaiche inews.co.uk/news/tinder-bo…

It was a pleasure to guest lecture on the King's War Studies 'Armchair Intelligence' OSINT master's module recently.

We did a walkthrough of an open source deep dive into a 3D-printed gun designer...

For anyone interested in OSINT, check the course out - it's an eye opener!

Last week, ICSR and Program On Extremism published the report I wrote for the 5th anniversary of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.

So what narratives motivated the attack and what's its impact on the extreme right today?

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ICYMI: Senior Research Fellow Rajan Basra was a guest on BBC World Service earlier this week, where he spoke about the fascinating findings of his latest ICSR report.

🎥 You can watch the recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=FshlTG…

I can neither confirm nor deny that my latest report is a CIA psy-op.

But it is some of the most interesting open-source work I've done.

It's a deep dive on the world's most influential 3D-printed gun designer, 'JStark1809', and you can read it here: icsr.info/wp-content/upl…

A very interesting report by Rajan Basra . It will of particular interest to those interested in organised crime and terrorism related issues.

It was a real pleasure to speak recently at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, presenting my research on how to identify the 3D-printed gun designer JStark as the author of seemingly 'anonymous' comments.

Thank you for inviting me!

The 3D-printed gun crowd have found this report - and they're very angry.

It looks at their hero 'JStark', showing his misognyist incel beliefs and support for far-right terrorism.

Have a read and see what has them so irate: icsr.info/wp-content/upl…

📢Hot off the press! We are delighted to launch a new report by Senior Research Fellow Rajan Basra. He identifies a leading pseudonymous figure from the world of 3D-printed guns and uncovers his extremist messages.

You can read it here: icsr.info/2023/10/19/beh…

📢 On October 26th we are launching a new report on the legacy of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack, written by Research Fellow Julien Bellaiche. This online event will be chaired by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens and is co-hosted with Program On Extremism

🎟️ Sign up below to attend icsr.info/2023/10/16/ics…

Incredibly excited to announce the launch of my new report for ICSR and Program On Extremism looking at the ideological underpinnings and the legacy of the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue attack in Pittsburgh.

Register for the launch presentation below