Webinar: Violent Extremism – The threat environment and impact of technological advancements

Date: Friday 15 November 2024 - Friday 15 November 2024

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Speakers:           

• Gail Fisk Malone, Director of Programs, IIJ

        How REMVE actors exploit emerging tech for violent extremist purposes
 

• Winthrop Wells, Senior Manager, Programs and Policy, IIJ

        Comparing the REMVE threat environment in Europe with South America
 
Facilitator:          Shenaz Muzaffer, General Counsel, International Association of Prosecutors
 
Formally inaugurated in June 2014, the IIJ works to strengthen and enhance the competencies of criminal justice practitioners and other stakeholders to address terrorism and related transnational crime within a rule of law framework, and to promote cooperation and information exchange on a national, regional and international level.  The IIJ’s principal geographical areas of focus are North, West and East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.  The IIJ delivers its objectives through the design and delivery of capacity-building programmes, the development and implementation of international good practices and the development of strategies to address the evolving nature of terrorism, violent extremism and transnational crime worldwide.
 
Racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism (REMVE)(also known as violent right-wing extremism) is increasing globally, presenting a dangerous and increasingly transnational threat.  Many individuals who are involved in REMVE incitement, recruitment and radicalisation are loosely connected, often in the online space (compared to the more structured and hierarchical global jihadist organisations), which poses significant challenges for law enforcement in uncovering and dismantling plots and related activity.  Criminal justice practitioners have a critical role to play in countering this growing threat, and must take a multi-faceted approach involving all sectors of the criminal justice system to tackle this criminality.
 
This webinar will consider how REMVE actors seek to exploit technologies including generative artificial intelligence and chatbots, immersive online gaming platforms, and 3-D printed weapons for their criminal purposes, and will also compare the REMVE threat environment in Europe with that in South America.
 
This one-hour webinar will be held in English and no interpretation will be provided.  However, attendees can access live automated interpretation and translated captions via the Zoom platform during the webinar.  All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance.  The webinar is open to all IAP organisational and individual members.
 
Please note that this webinar will be recorded.
 
For more details, please contact Ms. Irina Beridze, Executive Programme Manager of the IAP, at epm@iap-association.org
 
We look forward to welcoming you at the webinar!