Fighting Terror

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine in 2014, about 17.000 predominantly far-right foreign fighters joined the frontline to fight on both the Ukrainian and the separatist pro-Russian side. The ma...

12 Touko 202151min

Terrorist financing is an old phenomenon that keeps evolving and remains at the heart of global counter-terrorism efforts. It is the lifeblood for terrorist groups that need funding to sustain themsel...

14 Huhti 202147min

East Africa—a key security partner in the war on terror and a principal engine of economic development on the African continent—is being critically undermined by illicit trade, according to the new re...

31 Maalis 202134min

Recent events like the storming of the US capitol on the 6th of January involved several far-right groups that used social media to organise, and the spread of various viral conspiracy theories online...

10 Maalis 202149min

Ensuring security has long been seen as a primarily national competence, but over the years, with the increasing cross-border terrorist menace, the EU has decided to double its efforts and has adopted...

3 Tammi 202136min

We are witnessing more terrorist attacks than ever by offenders previously thought to have been rehabilitated. In this episode we hear from Professor Ian Acheson, former Director of Community Safety w...

2 Joulu 202035min

Combating radicalisation at the grassroots level is a fundamental part of all counter-terrorism strategies. In this episode we are joined by Saad Amrani, the Police Commissioner for the Brussels-Capi...

19 Marras 202050min

With the self-regulatory approach of platforms proving ineffective in the fight against extremist content, the European Commission proposed a regulation in 2018 to remove terrorist content online. In ...

26 Loka 202034min