Pandemic’s Effect on Counter-Terrorism SYNOPSIS COMMENTARY Evolving Threat Landscape & the Rising Far-Right

Global Health Security COVID-19 & Its Impacts Pandemic’s Effect on Counter-Terrorism By Kalicharan Veera Singam SYNOPSIS The rise of the extreme far right and violent Christian extremism reflects the evolving face of terrorism at a time of the pandemic. [...] COMMENTARY WITH THE outbreak of the pandemic, most governments were compelled to divert resources away from counter-terrorism to mitigate the unprecedented health and economic crisis. [...] At the onset of the pandemic governments had to prioritise their response to the health crisis and the economic fallout. [...] At the onset of the pandemic, counter-terrorism technologies and in some cases even security agencies were repurposed to fight the spread of the coronavirus. [...] With the slow but steady progress some governments are starting to make in rolling out vaccines and limiting the spread of the virus the return of some of these resources back to counter-terrorism can be expected.