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My PhD research explores the impact of Islamist terrorism on education policy and practice in England and France.
The Horn of Africa is the epicentre of foreign military activity. Foreign troops have been deployed to support peace initiatives, subdue terror groups and support foreign security initiatives.
More than 20 years after the shift from unilateralism to multilateralism, it is reasonable to wonder how multilateral France’s ‘new interventionism’ really is.
A nationwide report on Islamophobia on campus reveals that friendships between those of different backgrounds is most effective at dispelling racist views.
Should South Africa’s military get involved, it would be venturing into a highly violent and complex landscape, requiring a counter-terrorism type of operations.
The decision to charge an incel youth with terrorism reinforces worrying trends in counterterrorism.
Warnings about major disease outbreaks are supposed to come from national and international medical intelligence and surveillance agencies that most Americans have never heard of.
Product tampering is not just committed by teenagers, nor has it just come about during this pandemic.
The terror group uses the proceeds of criminal activity to support its political agenda.
The re-integration of defectors from terror groups into society is a conundrum governments in conflict situations have to deal with across the world.
Sending specially trained operatives into hostile territories dates back to Colonial days. In the past decade, special operations forces have become central to America’s counterterrorism efforts.
You can’t demand rebellion for long without inviting the suspicion of the state.
A flawed approach on both sides of the British political divide.
National security isn’t just about warding off physical attacks. It’s also about understanding cultural forces that drive a society to think, feel and act in certain ways, a political scientist says.
Why the extremism definition is unfit for purpose.
The process of radicalisation is a complex system that cannot be reduced to the brain, behaviour, or environment. It exists at the intersection of all these elements.
The scheme has many critics, but the numbers show that it’s working well.
Drones are a tool to manage the threat of al-Shabaab, but there’s no way they’ll defeat the group entirely.
Despite the publication of promising new statistics on referrals to the Prevent counter-terrorism programme, the strategy remains a blunt instrument.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, The Philippines Institute, Australian National University
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Professor of International Politics, School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication, University of East Anglia
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Departnent of Social Sciences, Pwani University
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Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
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Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism, George Washington University
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Senior research Fellow, Leeds Beckett University
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University of London