Identifying and preventing youth-driven lone actor threats

This webinar aims to enhance the preparedness of law enforcement practitioners to identify, assess and prevent youth-driven lone actor threats by strengthening their understanding of emerging radicalisation pathways within digital ecosystems, improving structured threat assessment capabilities, and promoting effective multidisciplinary prevention and intervention approaches.

By the end of this webinar, the audience will be able to:

• Describe the evolution of lone actor threats, with a particular focus on the shift towards youth-driven lone actor radicalisation and mobilisation patterns, including key drivers, vulnerabilities, behavioural patterns, and emerging trends across the EU and beyond;
• Highlight the role of digital ecosystems (e.g. gaming platforms, social media, encrypted platforms) in facilitating youth radicalisation and mobilisation to violence;
• Identify key elements of multidisciplinary co-operation in the prevention of youth-driven lone actor threats;
• Analyse and discuss best practices and lessons learned from past case studies on youth-driven lone actor threats.

This activity is implemented by the CEPOL Knowledge Centre on Counter-terrorism.

Target audience

Counter-terrorism and violent extremism investigators, intelligence officers, online investigation units, and threat assessment practitioners responsible for identifying and preventing lone actor radicalisation and mobilisation to violence. It is also relevant for community policing officers and prevention specialists engaged in youth outreach and multidisciplinary co-operation with education, social and local authorities to mitigate emerging youth-driven threats.