New Podcast – Let’s Talk Terrorism, With Bjørn Ihler
We are honoured to welcome Bjørn Ihler, Director of the Sweden-based Khalifa Ihler Institute, as well as founder and CEO of consulting firm Revontulet in Norway. A survivor of the 2011 Utoya Island massacre, Bjørn is an internationally recognised authority and speaker on the topic of terrorist and violent extremist content (TVEC), and has been a major driver of collective efforts to prevent, identify, track, and counteract terrorism both online and in the “real world”.
In today’s first installment of our conversations about terrorism, we cover some of the basics – how is it defined and what are the challenges in defining terrorism, who is involved, what are the objectives of some of the actors, and what sorts of terrorism does society face today.
Notes and Links:
As always, we haven’t read all of these in their entirety, and the Wikipedia links are provided as-is, and only meant as a starting point for someone interested in more than just casual information.
00:59 Khalifa Ihler Institute – https://khalifaihler.org
01:04 Revontulet – https://revontulet.co
01:43 Forum InCyber – https://www.forum-fic.com/en/home/
03:36 I don’t think Islamic State needs a link? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State
04:12 https://gifct.org/
04:40 The US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report
04:49 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys
09:03 https://xkcd.com/927/
09:30 Ku Klux Klan – yes, those guys
12:00 Universal Declaration of Human Rights – https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
12:19 UN Convention on Genocide – https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf (PDF)
12:57 Stochastic terrorism – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism
13:20 ETA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_(separatist_group)
13:21 The Irish Republican Army is a bit complicated, there’s a whole bunch of splinter groups that were doing terrorist stuff in the 1970s and 1980s – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army
13:33 Rote Armee Fraktion – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
13:35 Brigate Rosse – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Brigades
13:41 Palestinian Liberation Organization – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization
13:42 PFLP – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine
13:45 George Habash, PFLP founder and general-secretary – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Habash
15:53 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks
18:41 Global Hate Map – https://www.khalifaihler.org/hate-map
19:40 https://www.barcelona.cat/memorialrambla17a/en/
21:22 2016 Brussels terrorist attack – https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2018-06/2016-03_Brussels-terrorist-attack.pdf
21:23 The 2015 Paris attacks were only one of several recent major incidents in Paris – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks
23:10 Terrorgram – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorgram. This article also has information on the “saints culture” espoused by Terrorgram.
29:01 For example https://www.voanews.com/a/polls-far-right-s-social-media-strategy-is-wooing-spain-s-young-voters-/7189186.html – there are a few studies on this phenomenan, such as https://www.injuve.es/sites/default/files/adjuntos/2021/05/right_wing_extremism_among_the_youth_in_spain.pdf (PDF)
30:00 https://techagainstterrorism.org
33:57 One of several analyses of FARC’s involvement in the narcotics trade: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-farc-and-colombias-illegal-drug-trade
34:00 https://www.reuters.com/article/world/peru-s-shining-path-turns-from-mao-to-cocaine-idUSNOA941722/
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