Understanding the emerging threat of conspiracy-fuelled extremism

该项目旨在应对澳大利亚新出现的由阴谋推动的极端主义威胁。该项目希望通过确定驱动这种新形式极端主义的独特因素及其造成的社会危害来产生新的知识。通过三项研究，该项目将测试阴谋推动的极端主义的新理论模型，将探索这种形式的极端主义所造成的威胁和社会危害，并将发展以证据为基础的见解，以了解如何减轻这种极端主义。这项研究应该为澳大利亚带来好处，为政策制定者提供风险评估工具，以确定最有可能遭受暴力极端主义的个人，并提供有关家庭可能需要的服务的知识，以消除亲人的激进情绪。

This project aims to address the emerging threat of conspiracy-fuelled extremism in Australia. The project expects to produce new knowledge by identifying the unique factors driving this new form of extremism and the social harm it causes. Through three studies, the project will test a new theoretical model of conspiracy-fuelled extremism, will explore the threats and social harms this form of extremism creates, and will develop evidence-based insights into how it can be mitigated. The research should produce benefits for Australia by providing policymakers with a risk-assessment tool to identify individuals most 'at-risk' of violent extremism, and by providing knowledge about the services families may require to de-radicalise loved ones.