FROM THE EDITOR.

• Author: Cruickshank, Paul

Six months have now elapsed since the events of January 6. This issue of CTC Sentinel focuses in large part on the evolving threat of extreme far-right violence around the world. In the feature article, Graham Macklin examines in detail the thwarted October 2020 conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. He writes that the plot "highlights how anti-government 'militias' have continued to adapt and evolve, exploiting conspiracy theories and deliberate disinformation surrounding the pandemic, to remold traditional grievances about the 'tyranny' of the U.S. government."

In a wide-ranging interview, Deputy to the Under-Secretary-General Raffi Gregorian, the director of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), says the United Nations needs to counter extreme far-right violence around the world. "It's worth reflecting about the origins of the United Nations as a group of allies fighting Nazis," he states. "We ought to be doing this. We have a legal basis to do it. It would be nice to have a clear political signal to do it. I think we'll get it. And I think we'll get it because the countries that are most afflicted with it right now are ones that are also very interested in doing something about it."

The reporting of Yassin Musharbash and a team of his colleagues at Die Zeit has shed significant light on the globalization of the violent far-right. In an article that...