Radicalization continues to be addressed in binary (i.e. simplistic) ways, with involvement often considered the product of either “top-down” or “bottom up” processes. Yet these… Read More »April 17: The Recruiters: How Terrorist Groups Find the Right Stuff (for the Wrong Reasons). Prof John Horgan
This talk explores when and why governments negotiate peace and/or demobilization with “pro-state” paramilitary groups/pro-government militia. I argue that governments are more likely to negotiate… Read More »27 March: Why Negotiate Peace with Paramilitaries? The Case of the Self Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) 2003-2005. Dr Andrew Thomson
Learn how to consider the news potential of your expertise, how to look for story hooks and angles from the news, how to write a… Read More »20 March: The Conversation Media Training. Pat Onoapoi
The Stop Cop City movement represents a convergence of racial justice, anarchism, and environmentalism. Activists employ a diversity of tactics to halt the construction of… Read More »13 March: Stop Cop City and the Future of Direct Action Environmental Justice. Dr Joseph Brown
In the decades following the 9/11 attacks, complex webs of anti-terrorism laws have come into play across the world promising to protect ordinary citizens from… Read More »28 Feb: Homeland Insecurity: The Rise and Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law. Prof Conor Gearty
Aimed at research students and early career researchers in the UK, this talk from Atifa Jiwa, Senior Commissioning Editor in Politics and International Relations, Bloomsbury… Read More »Feb 25: Publishing a PhD manuscript with Bloomsbury, Atifa Jawa
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, the roundtable will provide an opportunity to hear… Read More »Feb 13: CSTPV: Past Present and Future of Terrorism Studies Roundtable III: Next Generation Networks
In this talk, Rabea Khan discusses the dominant narrative that has produced the so-called Religious Terrorism Thesis, i.e. the popular assumption that terrorism at its… Read More »Feb 4: The Coloniality of the Religious Terrorism Thesis
This article assesses the importance of an often-ignored vigilante group; the Catholic Ex-Servicemen’s Association. 1969 saw the mobilisation of Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland who… Read More »From soldiers to vigilantes: the Catholic Ex-Servicemen’s Association in Northern Ireland on the brink of civil war. Kieran McConaghy, 2024, Irish Political Studies
Increasingly, counter-radicalisation interventions are using case management approaches to structure the delivery of tailored services to those at risk of engaging in, or engaged in,… Read More »Case management interventions seeking to counter radicalisation to violence and related forms of violence: A systematic review, James Lewis, Sarah Marsden et al., 2024
On October 12 1984, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also referred to as the ‘Provisionals’, staged ‘the most audacious attack on a British government… Read More »The Iron Lady and the IRA: What effect did the 1984 Brighton Bombing have on Margaret Thatcher?
This handbook provides a theoretical and methodological exploration of the research on radicalisation and counter-radicalisation, one of the most influential concepts in Security Studies, International… Read More »The Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation and Countering Radicalisation (Edited ByJoel Busher, Leena Malkki, Sarah Marsden, 2023)
This paper examines the impact that the Basque civic movement had in the civil resistance against the armed separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (eta). The… Read More »¡Basta Ya! The Basque Civic Movement and Nonviolent Resistance to eta’s Terrorism (Javier Argomaniz, 2023)
In July 2015, a legal duty came into force as part of the United Kingdom’s Counter Terrorism and Security Act that included a requirement (referred… Read More »Fundamental British Values & the Prevent Duty in Scotland (Nick Brooke, 2023)
While the increasing possibilities for end-to-end encrypted communication constitute a technical advance for general data protection, new challenges arise for law enforcement and intelligence agencies… Read More »End-to-End Encryption and Counterterrorism – Untying the Gordian Knot with State Hacking?
Counter-radicalisation has emerged as a nascent and prioritised sub-field of countering terrorism, particularly as Western governments shifted from the ‘Global War on Terror’ to confronting… Read More »How Successful Have Efforts to Counter Radicalisation Been?
This study explores the ethical considerations that are encountered by Danish journalists when covering stories about terrorism and whether there is a perceived need for… Read More »Terrorism Making Headlines: Danish Journalists and the Ethical Dilemmas of Covering Terrorism
Recent research on terrorism and political violence has sought to better conceptualize the far-right. Specifically, various studies have contributed hypotheses regarding the White nationalist movement… Read More »Ideational Variation within the American White Nationalist Movement: A Framing Perspective
This article examines early antiterrorism negotiations within international organisations (IOs) and their outcomes. It assesses how international cooperation emerged in specialised, regional, and global IOs… Read More »International Organisations and Terrorism: Multilateral Antiterrorism Efforts, 1960–1990 (Bernhard Blumenau & Johannes-Alexander Müller, 2021)
Consociational democracy has become a dominant model for post-conflict democratisation, making an understanding of its dynamics and outcomes important for practitioners and scholars of peacebuilding.… Read More »Lessons from Beruit and Belfast: How Dysfunctional Democracy Undermines Consociational Settlements in Deeply Divided Societies