Escalating Conflict in Middle East Spurs Growth in Violent Online Hate Speech
Since the Israel-Hamas war started in October, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) has been documenting increasing amounts…
Theme: Tech & Democracy
Far-Right Extremist Accounts Surging on Mainstream Platforms
As mainstream social media companies’ content moderation teams shrink and policies fail, extremists are flourishing and no longer have to…
What media and civil society leaders can do to mitigate technology-fueled misogyny in the 2024 elections
In 2024, elections will take place in multiple countries with a collective population of 4 billion people; nearly half the…
Insights from the NATO Youth Summit in Stockholm
The NATO Youth Summit was hosted in Stockholm, bringing together over 200 young leaders in person and many more online.…
Welcome to our first South African Youth Conference!
People, communities, and businesses flourish when there is peace, openness, and democracy. We live in times when these values are…
6th IYTT Youth Conference and Nobel Symposium
You are bold and audacious. You are 18 to 28 years old. You look to the future. You do not…
2024 voices – Citizens Speak Up!
In September, the IYTT launched a collaboration with the Brussels-based think tank Friends of Europe, through Youth Fellows Lisa Lundgren…
The International Youth Think Tank at the Munich Security Conference: Reflections
In June of last year, myself and a team of youth fellows from the IYTT arrived in Strasbourg for the…
Toolkit – Monitoring the Impact of New Election Technologies in Elections
The increased presence of electronic technologies in our daily lives has brought considerable and concrete benefits. We can communicate with…
Democracy in the Age of GenerativeAI
In a democracy, power is derived from the consent, collective will and inclusion of the people. In today’s rapidly evolving…