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Audio and Key Insights: sahara-sahel.org, 3 May 2026 (Policyinstitute.net)
The Sahel is currently facing a compounding crisis where a security escalation in Mali, but more generally political fragmentation, conflict, and climate shocks touching upon…
Soft Security Resources: Press Articles, Documents, and Recordings on Countering Extremism, Hate Speech, and False Information – December 2025 (II/II)
Read from a list of the 245 most popular LinkedIn resources dealing with soft counter-extremism, on the theory of mis-/disinformation, and on countering hate speech…
Audio and Key Insights: sahara-sahel.org, 6 April 2026 (Policyinstitute.net)
The gist of this edition’s texts is that in Africa’s Sahel and broader dry belt, overlapping crises—water scarcity, climate change, conflict, and high nutritional costs—are…
Mark of 9,000 LinkedIn Followers Reached (Policyinstitute.net)
Dear Network, My LinkedIn network has surpassed the 9,000-follower threshold. In recent months, most new contacts came along all by themselves, with Data Analysts, Senior…
“They’re Not So Separate After All” – Digital and Analog Dimensions of Radicalization (Policyinstitute.net)
The text hyperlinked below highlights online hate as both an accelerator and a symptom of broader grievances: digital platforms have realized that they can intensify…
The Ontology of Success in Counterterrorism: Metrics, Challenges, and Evaluation Paradigms (Policyinstitute.net)
Because counterterrorism is a dynamic and frequently amorphous phenomenon, assessing its effectiveness is intrinsically difficult, Chiara Caterina Gatti writes. Conventional performance metrics that rely on…
Cultural Globalized Commons and Sociocultural Replacement Values: Conceiving Standards and Absorbing Societal Shocks (Policyinstitute.net)
In a deep dive into the Humanities, I have framed, since 2019, the theoretical construct of Cultural Globalized Commons (CGC) as a transnational, digitally mediated…
Soft Security Resources: Press Articles, Documents, and Recordings on Countering Extremism, Hate Speech, and False Information – December 2025 (I/II)
Read from a list of the 230 most popular LinkedIn resources dealing with soft counter-extremism, on the theory of mis-/disinformation, and on countering hate speech…
