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Sean McCafferty
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Researcher and OSINT analyst | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow EU-GLOCTER 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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.
April 5, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Reposted by Sean McCafferty
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...
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.
aoav.org.uk
March 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Sean McCafferty
Hello @vox-pol.bsky.social ! Great to see you here. Anyone interested in cutting edge online extremism research, do give them a follow! 💻

voxpol.eu
VOX - Pol | Network of Excellence
The VOX-Pol Network of Excellence (NoE) is an academic research network focused on researching Violent Online Political Extremism.
voxpol.eu
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM