Just returned from this year’s Europol ECTC conference. As always, the event offered a valuable mix of academic and practitioner insights. It was special to reconnect with familiar faces, meet new colleagues, and be joined by EUGLOCTER PhD colleagues Caterina Vergano, and Isabella Pirlogea.

Bearing witness to silence: how UK soldiers were traumatised by - and were ordered not to stop - the rape of boys in Afghanistan - AOAV British soldiers deployed to Afghanistan suffered lasting moral injury after witnessing the systematic rape of boys by Afghan allies—abuse they were ordered to ignore in the name of military cohesion.

his is shocking. Here I report on a US military study recently published about the British army:

Bearing witness to silence: how UK soldiers were traumatised by – and were ordered not to stop – the rape of boys in Afghanistan

aoav.org.uk/2025/bearing...

VOX - Pol | Network of Excellence The VOX-Pol Network of Excellence (NoE) is an academic research network focused on researching Violent Online Political Extremism.

Hello @vox-pol.bsky.social ! Great to see you here. Anyone interested in cutting edge online extremism research, do give them a follow! 💻

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