Kumar Ramakrishna

Kumar Ramakrishna is a scholar based at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where research focuses on violent extremism, counter-ideology, and terrorism in Southeast Asia. Ramakrishna has written extensively on Islamist movements in the region, including the ideological underpinnings of groups such as Darul Islam and the dynamics of radicalization in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore. Broader research interests extend to composite and nihilistic forms of violent extremism, accelerationist movements, far-left and far-right extremism, and the role of narratives and social networks in the spread of radical ideologies. Much of this work addresses the development of counter-ideological frameworks and cognitive approaches to preventing violent radicalization across a range of contexts.