Sexual violence is a characteristic of the ongoing insurgency in northeast Nigeria, during which hundreds of women and girls have been raped by fighters belonging to Jama’atul ahl al-sunnah li da’awati wal jihad (JAS), known globally as Boko Haram. Many of the women and girls were abducted, forcibly married to…
A consensus is building that violent extremism and terrorism are both international security and development issues. It is well documented that economic and social development are better attained in the absence of violent conflict. Furthermore, although poverty does not have a direct causal relationship with violent extremism and terrorism, poorer…
Does religious identity prompt radical action? This article presents a model of individual-level radical action. Drawing mostly on collective action theory the article posits that organizational membership drives the effect of religious identity on individual-level radical action. Using survey data the article assesses the behavior of Jewish settlers in the…
The collapse of Greece’s premier terrorist organization, the 17 November (17N) group, back in the summer of 2002 was a truly dramatic event, considering 17N’s 27-year career, but it was not such a watershed event in the country’s history as it was presented at the time by the mainstream political…
This Policy Brief aims to inform the current debate on integrating rehabilitation into the overall approach to foreign fighters by highlighting the challenges and opportunities within the criminal justice sector response to the phenomenon. The authors first analyse the specifics of the contemporary foreign fighter phenomenon and the criminal justice…
This Policy Brief aims to inform the current debate on integrating rehabilitation into the overall approach to foreign fighters by highlighting the challenges and opportunities within the criminal justice sector response to the phenomenon. The authors first analyse the specifics of the contemporary foreign fighter phenomenon and the criminal justice…
In recent years, terrorist groups such as ISIL, Al-Qaida and Boko Haram have shaped our image of violent extremism and the debate about how to address this threat. Their message of intolerance – religious, cultural, social – has had drastic consequences for many regions of the world. Holding territory and…
Last week, a bunch of important people from Washington, D.C. packed their bags and flew to California to meet with a bunch of important people from Silicon Valley. The occasion was not the usual fundraising dinners or donor-wooing — it was a terrorism summit. Government types are freaked out about…
In December 2015, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2250 and urged member states to increase the representation of youth in decision-making.2 The following month the UN Secretary-General presented his Plan of Action (PoA) to Prevent Violent Extremism and called for a comprehensive approach to systematically address the underlying conditions…
Studies examining immigrant generational status and violence have supported differences in the prevalence of violence between these groups. The purpose of this paper is to measure relevant risk factors for violence to focus on whether negative perceptions may contribute to understanding the between-generations differences in violence. Based on the literature,…
This edited volume contains a selection of essays and contributions derived from the presentations made at the International Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Research Conference 2015, which was held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates from 6-8 December 2015. The Conference was hosted by Hedayah, Edith Cowan University and New York…
This is the fourth edition of the Global Terrorism Index which provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism over the last 16 years, covering the period from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2015. Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace,…
