What is the Current Violent Extremist Threat to the U.S. Homeland?

Practitioner Counterterrorism and Terrorism Prevention Risk: Threat Assessment Tools

Objective/Purpose

Comparatively analyze domestic violent extremist and homegrown violent extremist movemetns, groups, and ideologies to understand the changing threat landscape in the U.S.

The Program on Extremism at George Washington University is evaluating the extremist threat to the U.S. by answering:

• What is the current state of the threat to the U.S. from foreign and homegrown extremists?
• How does this compare to the current state of the threat from domestic extremists?

Investigators

Lorenzo Vidino, George Washington University Program on Extremism

Seamus Hughes, George Washington University Program on Extremism