Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right

Dr Eviane Leidig is a postdoctoral affiliate at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo, and an Associate Fellow at the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET). Her research compares far-right online communities in India and North America. She is a founding member of the Steering Group at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR).

Dr William Allchorn is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Leeds and Associate Director at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR). He is an expert on anti-Islamic radical-right social movements in the UK and Western Europe. He is the author of Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK (Routledge, 2018). In 2019, he started a new research project—with Hedayah CVE—looking at violent far-right extremist narratives and counter narratives globally.

Dr. Tamir Bar-On is a Professor-Researcher at the Tec de Monterrey in Querétaro, Mexico. He is a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI), the National System for Researchers. He completed his PhD at McGill University. He is the author of Where Have All The Fascists Gone? (Ashgate 2007; Routledge, 2016); Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to modernity (Routledge, 2013); The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014); and Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).

Valerio Alfonso Bruno is Research Fellow at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where he collaborates with Polidemos (Center for the Study of Democracy and Political Change) and fellow at the Far-Right Analyis Network (FRAN). Bruno is a specialist on the Italian far-right and has recently contributed to the Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe and the Handbook Non-Violent Extremism. His online analyses have appeared, among others, on Al Jazeera, Financial Times, The Economist, France24.

Michael Colborne is a Canadian journalist and researcher who focuses on the far right in Eastern Europe. He is a Policy and Practitioner Fellow with the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) and has been part of the Bellingcat Monitoring Project team at the investigative journalism website Bellingcat, primarily researching Ukraine’s far right. Colborne’s work has appeared in Al Jazeera, Haaretz, The New Republic, Balkan Insight, and other publications.