Dr. Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen
Dr. Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen is a lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, Technical University of Mombasa. She has taken a keen interest in the sociological analysis of recruitment for violent extremist organizations. Since 2012, she has worked in Kenya as an academic and practitioner in the field of countering violent extremism. She has increasingly used ethnographic methods in research work. Prior to her work in Kenya, she has worked as a researcher and practitioner in Sri Lanka in the field of conflict transformation and peacebuilding.
This Policy Brief outlines several approaches that can be adopted by U.S. policymakers to address the challenges posed by militia violent extremist groups.
This Perspective analyses the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto to understand the broader context and factors that motivated this perpetrator.
Drawing on the Buffalo shooting, this Perspective considers what insights can be gathered to tackle violent right-wing content online.