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Amarnath Amarasingam

Amarnath Amarasingam is an Assistant Professor in the School of Religion at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, and an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation. His research interests are in radicalization, terrorism, diaspora politics, post-war reconstruction, and the sociology of religion.

 

CREST outputs

 

Projects

Commissioned year
Mapping terrorist exploitation of and migration between online communication and content-hosting platforms
This project explores how and why jihadist extremists use online communication and content-hosting platforms, and under what circumstances they migrate between them.
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2020 – 2020

Articles

Report
Amarnath Amarasingam, Shiraz Maher, Charlie Winter
How Telegram Disruption Impacts Jihadist Platform Migration
This CREST report investigates the impact of two Action Days geared towards meaningfully disrupting jihadist networks on Telegram, conducted by Europol in 2018 and 2019.
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2 min read

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