This article looks at the impact of the Egyptian Islamic Group’s decision to abandon violence as a means to an end in 1997 on Al Qaeda (via proxy through Egypt’s al-Jihad organisation), and how this narrative could be used to help dismantle the jihadi terrorist movement generally. Though al-Jihad followed…

The path that some individuals take to a point at which they may be willing to kill others and themselves in the name of Islam is today’s most pressing security concern. It is a journey that is still too poorly understood despite dozens of theoretical models and profile studies. What…

This study uses qualitative interpretive textual analysis of video games found on hate and extremist websites to explore the proliferation of these games on the Internet and the extent they advocate violence and conflict or portray hate groups in a positive way to existing and potential members. In particular, this…

This is the second Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Annual Hate Crime Report and presents information on CPS performance in prosecuting racist and religious hate crime, transphobic and homophobic crime and disability hate crime. The CPS has reported its hate crime performance in a number of ways and, until this year,…

On 24 June 2009 the Commission adopted its communication on strengthening chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) security in the European Union – an EU CBRN Action Plan, which was based on the findings of a CBRN Task Force established by the Commission in February 2008, involving both public and…

The year 2008 exhibited that terrorism and internal insurgencies remain the biggest threat to India’s national security, businesses and way of life. Such continual increse and spread of terrorist attacks across India indicates ineffectivness of measures and investments made towards national security in recent years. All the prepardness seems nowhere…

La transición española, entendida en un sentido amplio como el periodo que cubre desde la muerte de Franco el 20 de noviembre de 1975 hasta la victoria del PSOE el 28 de octubre de 1982, se conoce sobre todo, tanto en el imaginario popular como en los estudios historiográficos y…

The decision by the Australian Government on 21 August 2009 to officially list the al-Shabaab group as a terrorist organisation highlights a subject of growing concern in many Western governments: what is the danger posed by the Somali-based group, and is it merely a regional actor? This article outlines the…

This paper was produced by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue as part of the Policy Planners Network on Countering Radicalisation and Polarisation (PPN) project. It explores ways that the assessment of (Muslim) movements and organisations can be conducted more effectively by governments and their partners within the PPN countries, while…

As a result of the haze of confusion surrounding the Prevent programme, conspiracy theories and speculative rumours tend to circulate, especially among communities in the areas that Prevent has focused on. Such an atmosphere is disempowering and we do not wish to add to it. We have attempted to conduct…

This report examines the history of, the metamorphosis, and the future trajectory of the Al-Qaeda franchise known as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The important aims to highlight the need for global co-operation in tackling the threat of the organisation, and the importance of mobilizing the international community to…

This article has two principal objectives: (1) to study the behavioral dimensions of Muslim prisoners which predict their Islamist radicalism and (2) to study whether the behavior manifested by them is higher in prisons with a greater concentration of Muslims and a higher presence of prisoners convicted for Islamist terrorism…