Violence-Inducing Behavior Prevention in Social-Cyber Space

Hate speech, radicalization, and polarization in online social environments are some of the leading global societal challenges today. How to respond to online hate speech leading to violence and social threats is a question troubling many democracies – including Norway. Such malicious online behaviors not only impede the universal right to a free and peaceful existence, they also negatively affect response efforts of both public and official agencies during disasters, and thus, local community services require tools to monitor risks to community resilience from the social environment. In this paper, we will elaborate on our ongoing research project “SOCYTI” about developing methods and tools to timely inform local community services for proactive interventions at scale regarding violence-inducing social behaviors by individuals online.