Halle, Hanau, Kassel, and Munich, but also Utoya, Christchurch, and the storming of the Capitol - right-wing extremism and right-wing terrorism are often understood as national phenomena. However, increasingly global interlinkage (online & offline) of right-wing extremist actors and groups can be observed. The Global Terrorism Index measures a 700% increase in deaths from right-wing extremist attacks within the last 5 years. Moreover, the support of far-right actors and the dissemination of far-right narratives is used by state actors specifically to disinform and destabilize societies. Consequently, approaches to combat and contain them require a global foreign policy perspective. A response to this is needed at the multilateral level in particular because the new, transnational right-wing extremism sees itself in a global struggle against the status quo.
Key questions:
Why has there not been an adequate response from national and international institutions to the threat of right-wing extremism?
How can the fight against right-wing extremism be integrated into foreign policy?
What can be done at the international and multilateral level to counter the threat of right-wing extremist terror?
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Heather Ashby, Senior Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace
Speakers:
Dr. Anna Meier, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
Farah Kasim, Political Affairs Officer, Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED)
Simon Herchen, Deputy Head of Division, International Cooperation against Terrorism at Federal Foreign Office
Moderation: Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director, Counter Extremism Project New York
Diplomats of Color is a network of BPoC working at the German Federal Foreign Office. Together with the Young German Council on Foreign Relations we are hosting a monthly speaker series “Rethinking Foreign Policy” with the aim of offering a forum in which we can bring diverse perspectives together and have core actors in foreign and security policy discuss young and innovative concepts for a new foreign policy, engaging in dialogue with the next generation of foreign policy actors via digital formats.
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