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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s national action plan for preventing and combating terrorism was adopted during a time of intensifying security challenges on a global scale, including, among other, foreign terrorist fighters, violent extremism and crime and hate speech, abuse of the Internet for terrorist purposes. The document outlines Bosnia’s gravest concerns,…

As of June 2015, the four-year-old civil war in Syria had forced more than 4 million people to flee their homes for neighboring countries. The impact of this outflow on Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey—which has received the largest number of refugees at nearly 1.8 million1 (UNHCR, 2015b)—has received significant press…

This report sprang from a collection of press releases and publicaons that the Hizbut Tahrir, Pakistan issued during 2010-2014. With the help of this primary source of informaon, this report explores the goals and acvies of this transnaonal Islamist polical party, with parcular reference to its acvies in, and the…

Pakistan’s current security crisis is a direct result of both structural as well as trigger factors. The religious nature of the state i.e. Islamic Republic of Pakistan and its dispute with India over the Himalayan state of Kashmir represent two major structural factors. Both became even more pronounced during General…

The 2013 victory of far-right extremist Marián Kotleba in gubernatorial elections in Banská Bystrica region led to a diverse array of reactions among activists, academics and policy-makers. Besides assigning blame for the result to various factors and actors, some ventured to pursue the path of potential counterbalancing and prevention of…

Contrairement à ce que l’on pouvait redouter, l’émoi populaire suscité par les attentats terroristes visant l’hebdomadaire satirique Charlie Hebdo et les clients anonymes d’un supermarché casher de la porte de Vincennes n’a ni provoqué passions mortifères ni sentiment de vengeance au sein de la société française. Le scénario catastrophe semble…

The focus of international and national strategies for countering terrorism in the past decade has shifted from using hard security measures alone to combat terrorism, to a more multi-sectoral, comprehensive approach, which also includes more preventive strategies known as countering violent extremism (CVE). For example, multilateral organizations such as the…