- May312018
ICSR Events – Martyn Frampton & Stephen Tankel Book Launches
Read moreICSR recently celebrated two important book launches, featuring new publications by our associate fellows. To celebrate these books we hosted…
ICSR Team - May302018
From Battlefield to Ballot Box: Contextualising the Rise and Evolution of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. Following the Iraqi elections on 12 May…
ICSR Team - May212018
ICSR Report Launch – From Battlefield to Ballot Box: Contextualising the Rise of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units
Read moreSpeakers: Sir John Jenkins KCMG LVO Inna Rudolf, ICSR Chair: Dr Shiraz Maher, ICSR Where: King’s College London When: Wednesday May 30th, 1-2pm…
ICSR Team - May182018
Sadr: From A Firebrand Cleric To A Political Brand Of Reform
Read moreHaving just returned from Iraq, ICSR Research Fellow Inna Rudolf offers some context on the Iraqi elections. A full ICSR…
ICSR Team - Apr262018
Beyond Banking: Professor Neumann’s opening keynote address at “No Money for Terror” summit in Paris
Read moreICSR Founding Director Professor Peter R. Neumann delivered the opening keynote address at today’s “No Money for Terror” summit in…
ICSR Team - Mar092018
Challenging Hate: Counter-speech Practices in Europe
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. CONTEXT In recent years, there has been…
ICSR Team - Mar022018
ICSR Event – Jihadism after the Caliphate: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Europe
Read moreSpeakers included: Dr Jennifer Philippa Eggert, University of Warwick Dr Petter Nesser, FFI Dr Joana Cook, ICSR Charlie Winter, ICSR…
ICSR Team - Feb162018
ISIS And Terrorism In Europe: What Next?
Read moreBy Peter R. Neumann, ICSR This article first appeared in the Munich Security Conference’s conference paper, The Security Times. Just over…
ICSR Team - Jan222018
Debating the Hezbollah Problem
Read moreThis is a guest post by Dr. Matthew Levitt, Director of the counterterrorism programme at The Washington Institute for Near…
ICSR Team - Jan182018
Syria’s Best of Enemies Breaking Good
Read moreBy Inna Rudolf, Research Fellow, ICSR Only a week ahead of the upcoming Geneva talks at the end of January…
ICSR Team - Dec182017
Ruling with Hashd: The Good, the Badr and the Chameleon
Read moreBy Inna Rudolf, Research Fellow, ICSR With the military defeat of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, Prime Minister…
ICSR Team - Dec072017
Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation that Lead to Terrorism: Ideas, Recommendations, and Good Practices from the OSCE Region
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. There is practically no country in the…
ICSR Team - Dec052017
Yemen in flux: the only certainty is there is no certainty
Read moreBy Joana Cook, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR The events of the past week and most crucially the assassination of former…
ICSR Team - Dec042017
ICSR Event – The Nexus of Egypt and Regional Terrorism
Read moreSpeaker: Dr. Nancy Okail Where: King’s College London When: December 8, 1pm In the wake of two of the worst terror attacks in Egypt’s…
ICSR Team - Nov092017
Is Islamic State losing control of its ‘virtual caliphate’?
Read moreBy Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR For years, a utopian vision of life under so-called Islamic State (IS) was…
ICSR Team - Oct262017
Driving Out ISIS Is Just The Start — Rebuilding Raqqa Will Take Years
Read moreBy Haid Haid, Research Fellow, ICSR This article was first published on CNN and can be accessed in full here As the smoke…
ICSR Team - Oct042017
ICSR Workshop – Online Jihadism: Beyond The English-Language Literature
Read moreWhere: King’s College London When: Monday 16 – Tuesday 17 OctoberICSR and the European Consortium VOX-Pol hosted a two-day workshop with academics and CVE…
ICSR Team - Sep292017
Release of Director Peter Neumann’s OSCE Report
Read moreToday, OSCE Chairman and Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz released ICSR Director Peter Neumann’s report “Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation…
ICSR Team - Sep212017
Why ISIS Is So Good at Branding Its Failures as Successes
Read moreBy Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR and Haroro Ingram, Research Associate with the International Centre for Counterterrorism When you think…
ICSR Team - Sep112017
The Catalonia Attacks in Context
Read moreBy John Holland-McCowan, Research Fellow, ICSR and Daniel Porter, Research Intern, ICSR Within two days, between August 17th-18th, three vehicular attacks…
ICSR Team - Aug082017
War of Shadows: How Turkey’s Conflict with the PKK Shapes the Syrian Civil War and Iraqi Kurdistan
Read moreBy John Holland-McCowan The full report can be accessed here Key Findings • With Syria and Iraq in flames, Turkey’s…
ICSR Team - Aug022017
ICSR Paper Launch – War of Shadows: How Turkey’s Conflict with the PKK Shapes the Syrian Civil War and Iraqi Kurdistan, Monday August 7th
Read moreSpeaker: John Holland McCowan, ICSR When: Monday 7 August With Syria and Iraq in flames, Turkey’s escalating conflict with the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) has created…
ICSR Team - Jul242017
The King’s Programme for Middle East Dialogue Research Papers 2017
Read moreAs the King’s Programme for Middle East Dialogue concludes for this academic year ICSR is pleased to publish the research papers…
ICSR Team - Jun192017
Foreign Affairs – Don’t Follow the Money: The Problem with the War on Terrorist Financing
Read moreICSR’s Peter Neumann recently had this article “Don’t Follow the Money: The Problem with the War on Terrorist Financing” published…
ICSR Team - Jun072017
IS Attacks in Tehran – Scenarios and Implications
Read moreBy Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR Earlier today, the Iranian Parliament building in central Tehran was stormed. Attackers, reportedly…
ICSR Team - May032017
ICSR / VOX-Pol Paper – Research Perspectives on Online Radicalisation: A Literature Review 2006-2016
Read moreBy Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens and Nick Kaderbhai The full paper can be accessed here. This literature review seeks to recalibrate our understanding of…
ICSR Team - Mar232017
The ISIS Propaganda Decline
Read moreBy Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR On Thursday, the Islamic State adopted the perpetrator of the Westminster Bridge attack…
ICSR Team - Mar132017
How is Islamic State Dealing with its Defeat in Mosul?
Read moreThis interview with Senior Research Fellow Charlie Winter first appeared on the blog Musings on Iraq and can be accessed in full here 1.…
ICSR Team - Mar012017
Islamic State Employs Suicide Attacks on ‘Industrial Scale’
Read moreBy Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR This article is based on a report Charlie wrote for The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism…
ICSR Team - Feb172017
Caliphate in Decline: An Estimate of Islamic State’s Financial Fortunes
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Key Findings • Islamic State’s most significant sources of revenue are closely tied…
ICSR Team - Feb132017
Media Jihad: The Islamic State’s Doctrine for Information Warfare
Read moreBy Charlie Winter To read the full report, click here Context Weeks after its capture of Mosul in 2014, the…
ICSR Team - Feb092017
ICSR Report Launch – “Media Jihad: The Islamic State’s Doctrine for Information Warfare”
Read moreICSR launched the report ‘Media Jihad: The Islamic State’s Doctrine for Information Warfare’ at King’s College London on February 14.…
ICSR Team - Feb012017
Trump’s Immigration Order Is a Propaganda Victory for ISIS
Read moreBy Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR This article first appeared in The Atlantic and can be accessed in full here On…
ICSR Team - Jan122017
Director Peter Neumann Appointed OSCE Special Representative on Combating Radicalisation
Read moreProfessor Peter Neumann, director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), has been appointed Special Representative on combating…
ICSR Team - Jan112017
Suicide Tactics and the Islamic State
Read moreAuthor: Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR This article was first published by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague…
ICSR Team - Dec052016
Who Will Hold The Keys To Al-Bab?
Read moreBy John Holland-McCowan, Research Fellow, ICSR and Adam Alayli, Research Assistant, ICSR A new offensive by Turkey and its affiliated…
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