Our intelligence agencies need to speak clearly, without fear or favour, but also without inflaming prejudice.
- Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
The time has come to deal with hateful extremism before it manifests as violent extremism. This includes having a public register of hate incidents.
Vue d’Australie, la suite d’événements tragiques – et attaques terroristes – illustre certaines faiblesses de la France, notamment sa capacité à rassembler et à ne pas apprendre du passé.
France and its leaders are endlessly repeating the mistakes of the past, burdened by a flawed framing of identity and a needlessly narrow path to belonging.
Global terrorism has been relatively quiet as the world is consumed by the COVID-19 pandemic. But it is still there, unabated, and we need to do more to stop it.
Google searches for the word “prayer” have skyrocketed during the coronavirus pandemic. With the world feeling vulnerable, more people are finding solace in online religious gatherings.
Australia is under increasing threat from right-wing terrorism, and to properly combat it we need to understand it and offer better alternatives for those drawn to it.
Prison rehabilitation programs are difficult, but to give up and do nothing would be not merely cynical, but self-defeating.
Kekuatan ISIS, baik di Irak dan Suriah, dan di seluruh dunia, tidak akan berhenti hanya karena dua pemimpinnya tewas.
Après la mort de Baghdadi, la question est de savoir comment on pourra neutraliser les prochains leaders de Daech, afin d’éviter la réémergence du mouvement.
How much the leader’s death might hinder the reemergence of IS greatly depends on how quickly its next leaders can be tracked down and dealt with.
We cannot underestimate the capacity for reinvention, resilience and the enduring appeal of IS.
To understand the threat better, we need to devote more resources to monitoring and tracking far-right forums and social networks and a national database tracking hate crimes.
Allowing our citizens to be somebody else’s problem, out of sight and out of mind, does not actually make the security risk to Australians go away.
The deadly Sri Lanka attacks show a return to the coordinated, sophisticated strikes employed by al-Qaeda in the 2000s, focusing on soft targets with vulnerable institutions.
There is deep sadness in the Christchurch attacks, but little shock. We need to address the permissive political environment that allows such hateful extremism to be promulgated so openly.
Too often, politicians use matters of national security for nakedly political advantage. It’s a dangerous ploy, and it’s time it stopped.
While broad-based counter-terrorism strategies aren’t very effective at preventing lone-actor attacks, community outreach efforts are having success turning troubled young lives around.
Dengan perkembangan ISIS sekarang yang telah mencapai ke seluruh dunia, kini waktu yang ideal untuk memfasilitasi hubungan kerja sama antara Detasemen 88 dan uni anti-terorisme Australia.
Trained and funded by Australia and the US, Detachment 88 is winning the fight against terrorism in Indonesia, though not without some controversy and continued challenges.
Setelah serangan JAD baru-baru ini di Indonesia, polisi menyebut kemungkinan bangkitnya sel-sel tidur dari orang-orang yang kembali dari Suriah.
The world cheered the defeat of IS in the Middle East, but the insurgency is far from over.
The final article of our series on the historical roots of Islamic State examines the role recent Western intervention in the Middle East played in the group’s inexorable rise.
Why does Australia have a terrorism alert system? And what does it mean if the alert level is increased? The National Terrorism Public Alert System is a way of communicating to the public what the current…
The US government has confirmed the veracity of a video showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley by Islamic State (IS) militants. US president Barack Obama condemned the act overnight…
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