Panel 1B: The Swansea Model: Terrorist and Violent Extremist Researcher Safety and Security
Chair: Dr Michael Loadenthal (University of Cincinnati)
Panellists: Dr Marc-André Argentino (Accelerationism Research Consortium) Prof Maura Conway (Dublin City University & Swansea University) Dr Sara Correia-Hopkins (Swansea University)
Abstract: How can scholar-practitioners engage with online extremism without endangering themselves, their families, their respondents, or their institutions? These questions have increasing relevance as many threat actors are increasingly aware of researchers’ efforts and routinely target academics, journalists, and activists with threats, harassment, and violence. How do these values, principles, and practices relate to engagement with the public, news media, and academia? How and where does safety intersect with ethical reporting and informing the public without amplifying extremist content? Rather than claiming ownership or authority over the ‘best practices’ in the realm of operational security, this workshop seeks to facilitate an exchange between scholar-practitioners with the aim of collectively authoring a document for researchers on the best safety practices to help guide our field. Building on the group effort to author the Threat Modelling manifesto (see: https://www. threatmodelingmanifesto.org/), participants will share experiences and knowledge to identify, elevate, and record these best practices and guiding principles for safe(r) and ethical engagement in violent online spaces. The hope is that this session can draw on our collective knowledge to record and recommend standards for scholar-practitioners tailored specifically to our field and that these standards can be revisited on an ongoing basis as the threat landscape and actors’ abilities change.
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