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DNA testing gives limited information about whether people are likely to be related. But even if we overcame the many practical and legal hurdles to implementing it, what’s the point?
We cannot underestimate the capacity for reinvention, resilience and the enduring appeal of IS.
It will take a global effort to slow the rise in
atrocities against religious groups.
The decision by the British government to revoke citizenship of a U.K.-born man puts Canada in a conundrum and raises serious questions about the practice of stripping citizenship.
The bombings have been framed as part of ongoing internal conflict, but Sri Lanka was just the stage for a play that could have been performed anywhere in the world.
What movitaves these wealthy young people from doing this atrocity?
According to a new study, a small portion of a site can yield thousands of objects, adding up to millions of dollars.
A terrorism expert exposes the quirks, inconsistencies and foreign policy strategy behind the State Department’s terrorist watchlist.
After a civil conflict, within five years the majority of modern peace agreements fail. What is causing these negotiated settlements to fall apart?
The Red Cross has released the name of a New Zealand nurse captured by ISIS in Syria more than five years ago in an appeal for help in finding her. But the move has caused a rift with the government.
Only by prosecuting extremists will the world be able to marginalize those who carry out violent acts and those who give credence to their ideas.
Its defeat in Syria may now give way to new dangers.
Giving up means giving the Assad regime and Russia both a strategic and intellectual victory with incalculable consequences for global security.
Hundreds of thousands of women helped the Nazi cause. Few ever faced justice.
Like today’s Western women who joined ISIS and now want to return home, American women with British sympathies during the Revolution left the country – but many tried to bring their families back.
Many of the men and women who left homes in the West to join ISIS or similar terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq as fighters or supporters now want to come home. Should they be allowed back?
Iraq beat the Islamic State. Now, its Shia government is jailing and even executing all suspected terrorists – most of them Sunni Muslims. The clampdown may inflame a centuries-old sectarian divide.
Kenya needs to disseminate and implement intelligence so that it can effectively prevent and counter future terror attempts.
Keeping the water and power on, managing sewers and collecting garbage will help communities shattered by the Syrian civil war rebuild – and keep out the Islamic State, says a former aid official.
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clemson University
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Research Fellow in Counterterrorism, George Washington University
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Adjunct Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
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Lecturer in Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Islamic History, UMass Dartmouth
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Researcher, Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Modibbo Adama University of Technology
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Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism, George Washington University
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Associate professor in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex University