Over the course of its ‘Caliphate’ project (2014–2017), the Islamic State group (IS) sought to indoctrinate, recruit and operationalise children to both populate its ‘state’ and swell its army. In order to design effective initiatives to rehabilitate and reintegrate children born and/or raised under IS rule, the motivating factors behind…
La captación y el adoctrinamiento de niños y adolescentes constituyen en nuestro país un fenómeno de dimensiones desconocidas hasta fechas recientes. Entre 2013 y 2017 al menos 36 yihadistas proyectaron sus esfuerzos de movilización sobre personas que no habían superado la mayoría de edad. Sus actividades se vieron condicionadas por…
This publication is the first educational guidance from UNESCO to specifically address the problem of contemporary anti-Semitism at a time when, sadly, the need has become ever more crucial in our schools, universities and other educational establishments. Jewish communities across the world, where they exist, face increasing threats. They have…
The paper seeks to analyse the profiles of 125 Foreign Fighters included in the list of foreign fighters compiled by the Italian Ministry of Interior in 2017.
The UK failed to tell Bosnia of its suspicions about a consignment of bullets bound for Saudi Arabia, which has a habit of diverting arms to proxies in Syria and Yemen.
Although the Daesh terrorist group has been severely defeated in Iraq and Syria, its affiliates have made inroads in Southeast Asia where over 60 groups have pledged their loyalty to Daesh leader Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi and are planning to set up an “East Asia wilayat”. The region has seen a…
During the last week of June 2018, Heads of counter-terrorism agencies of Member States gathered for a high-level conference at the United Nations in New York. Under the auspices of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the conference was organized by the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (OCT). Assistant Secretary-General Michèle Coninsx,…
Although the term is not subject to a universally agreed definition, terrorism can be broadly understood as a method of coercion that utilizes or threatens to utilize violence in order to spread fear and thereby attain political or ideological goals. Contemporary terrorist violence is thus distinguished in law from “ordinary”…
In 2012, UNRCCA, together with the CTITF Office, organized consultations with international and regional organizations to initiate the mapping process of counter-terrorism activities in Central Asia and to determine the position of these activities vis-à-vis the Joint Plan of Action. The consultations led to the creation of a Matrix of…
The series of Modules on Counter-Terrorism Education, developed within the Education for Justice (E4J) initiative, aim to provide a relevant and valuable resource for lecturers teaching courses on counter-terrorism in universities and academic institutions across the world. The Modules seek to enhance students’ understanding of terrorism, its implications and related…
The series of Modules on Counter-Terrorism Education, developed within the Education for Justice (E4J) initiative, aim to provide a relevant and valuable resource for lecturers teaching courses on counter-terrorism in universities and academic institutions across the world. The Modules seek to enhance students’ understanding of terrorism, its implications and related…
‘Loving Hate: anti-Muslim extremism, Islamism and the Spiral of Polarization’ looks at reciprocal radicalisation between Islamists and far-right extremists and was published by ISD in cooperation with the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society in Jena.
