While the far right is not a monolith and many actors are highly competitive with one another, far-right activity is increasingly coalescing around specific groups and issues. Overall activity has risen even as the landscape of far-right actors has continued to become more defined, with fewer distinct groups active in 2022 than 2021. Far-right groups are linked to high rates of protest violence: demonstrations involving far-right militias and militant social movements are nearly five times more likely to turn violent or destructive than other demonstrations. Approximately 750 events - including demonstrations, acts of political violence, and training, recruitment, and propaganda activities - involving far-right groups have been recorded as of late November 2022, compared to nearly 780 events in all of 2021. A full list of country-year coverage is available here.Far-right militia and militant social movement activity in 2022 is on track to exceed the level of activity reported in 2021. Please note differences in time period coverage per country and region. The tag also applies to attacks that target property linked to government functions or owned by local officials, including local government buildings, courts, local election centers, and/or adjacent public or private property.įor more information, read the introductory report from our special project tracking violence targeting local officials and this methodology note on the ‘local administrators’ tag. Examples of local officials are: elected or appointed officials or representatives from subnational state institutions (including former) civil servants, election officials and poll workers, local justice officials, and other local authorities and relatives of local officials or representatives. Local officials are understood as administrators who are part of subnational government institutions, from the first-level administration division down to cities, towns, and villages. 
This file contains events classified as violence targeting local government officials with the ‘local administrators’ tag, where 1) violence is used against local officials or administrators or 2) property owned by (or symbolic of) local government administration is targeted or destroyed.
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