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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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Conference – Constructions of Terrorism: Reconciling Human Rights, Human Security in Countering Terrorism
Read moreClick here for the conference programme At this event, we explored the challenges in putting forth effective counter terrorism programmes while meeting…
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Influential ISIS Member: Group will Shift Towards Terrorism in the West
Read moreAs the Islamic State group (also known as IS or ISIS) continues to lose territory in Syria and Iraq, its…
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Why the Kurdish-led SDF Will Struggle to Retake Raqqa
Read moreBy John Holland-McCowan, Research Fellow, ICSR As referenced in our most recent Insight, “Limits on the Iraqi Kurds’ Impact on the…
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ICSR Event – A Conversation with Shadi Hamid
Read moreShadi Hamid is a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and an acclaimed…
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Limits on the Iraqi Kurds’ Impact on the Battle for Mosul
Read moreby John Holland-McCowan, Research Fellow, ICSR As the noose tightens on ISIS controlled Mosul, the Iraqi Kurdish armed forces, otherwise…
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ICSR Event – ISIS after the Caliphate: How the terror army has evolved after two years of international war
Read moreMichael Weiss is the coauthor of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, as well as a Senior Editor at The…
ICSR TeamCriminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus
Read moreThe full report is available here The presence of former criminals in terrorist groups is neither new nor unprecedented. But…
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ICSR Book Launch – Radicalized: New Jihadists and the Threat Against the West
Read moreProfessor Peter Neumann’s new book is the first comprehensive analysis of the new jihadist threat against the West. Gilles de…
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ICSR Report Launch: Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus
Read moreSpeakers: * Professor Peter Neumann, Director, ICSR * Rajan Basra, Research Fellow, ICSR This new ICSR report was the first…
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Evolving Shades of Jihadism
Read moreOlivier Moos, Religioscope This article originally appeared in Religioscope At the conference ‘ISIS in Europe’ a panel of scholars and security…
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ICSR Conference – ISIS in Europe
Read moreThe events in Nice have made it clear that the threat from terrorism in Europe is sustained, real, and that…
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The Power of the Swarm: Where Next for Counter-Messaging?
Read moreIn the wake of the June 12 IS-inspired attack in Orlando, FL, many questions have been raised about what is…
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France Tests “Tough Love” De-radicalisation Approach
Read moreBy Milena Uhlmann, ICSR Associate Fellow While presenting the French government’s Action Plan Against Radicalisation and Terrorism on May 9,…
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Pain, Confusion, Anger, and Shame: The Stories of Islamic State Families
Read moreExecutive Summary To read the paper in full, please click here. • For every jihadist that has traveled to Syria, Libya,…
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Economic Growth and Business Collaboration: A Tool for Peace Building in Israel-Palestine
Read moreThanks to the generosity of the Atkin Foundation, ICSR offers young leaders from Israel and the Arab world the opportunity…
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The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Back to Basics
Read moreThanks to the generosity of the Atkin Foundation, ICSR offers young leaders from Israel and the Arab world the opportunity…
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Analysis on Brussels Attack
Read moreThe bombings in Brussels point to a broad and sophisticated terrorist network in Belgium, extending beyond the individuals involved in…
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German Jihadists in Syria and Iraq: An Update
Read moreby Daniel H. Heinke, ICSR Associate Fellow* The German security authorities recently published a new study that brings together information…
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Al Qaeda’s Dangerous African Revival
Read moreby ICSR Head of Research Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens When a bomb went off on board a February 2 Daallo Airlines flight…
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ICSR Event – Madrid+10: The Global Dialogue on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism
Read moreSpeakers: Lord John Alderdice Professor Peter Neumann A Policy Dialogue on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism was held in Madrid,…
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The Decline in Islamic State Media Output
Read moreby Aaron Y Zelin, Rena and Sami David Fellow, ICSR Over the years, I identified the pace at which a…
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ICSR Workshop – The Future of Jihadism: From Theory to Policy
Read moreThis one day workshop examined the future of jihadism in both theory and practice. It featured discussions on the future…
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The Atkin Fellowship for Arab-Israeli Dialogue: In Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East
Read moreThe Atkin Fellowship for Arab-Israeli Dialogue, generously funded by the Atkin Foundation, is based in the International Centre for the…
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ICSR Event – Away from ISIS, Syria’s other jihadists: The struggle for Idlib province
Read moreSpeaker: Salam Rezk Salem, a Syrian journalist, recorded a documentary for Vice where he embedded with jihadists as they conquered…
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ICSR and Club de Madrid Event – Policy Dialogue on Countering Violent Extremism Starts Today
Read moreICSR and the Club de Madrid’s Policy Dialogue on countering violent extremism brought together 400 participants from all over the…
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Violence and Its Causes
Read moreBy Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Peter R. Neumann This op-ed was published today in Spanish in El Pais. Click here to see the…
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Violent Online Political Extremism Briefings
Read moreThis Autumn, the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence, in partnership with ICSR, invites you to a series of Lunchtime Briefing Seminars, each…
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Victims, Perpetrators, Assets: The Narratives of Islamic State Defectors
Read moreVictims, Perpetrators, Assets: The Narratives of Islamic State Defectors The full report can be downloaded here. Much has been written…
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An Artistic Intifada: Young Palestinian Women’s Non-Violent Resistance through Art
Read moreThe full paper can be accessed here. Thanks to the generosity of the Atkin Foundation, ICSR offers young leaders from…
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LGBT advocacy and approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within the Israeli right wing political sphere
Read moreThanks to the generosity of the Atkin Foundation, ICSR offers young leaders from Israel and the Arab world the opportunity…
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ICSR Event – What should the world do about ISIS and the challenge from violent extremism?
Read moreThis event was co-hosted by Georgetown University, King’s College London, and ICSR. Speakers: His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Founder,…
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ICSR Event – Understanding “Islamic State” Narratives Through Analysing Their Online Media Output
Read moreDr. Nico Prucha, a post doctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and joint ICSR/Vox-Pol Research Fellow, gave…
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The Tunisian-Libyan Jihadi Connection
Read moreby Aaron Zelin, The Rena and Sami David Fellow, ICSRIt should have come as no surprise that Seifeddine Rezgui, the…
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ICSR Event – Re-examining Foreign Fighters: Over Time and Out of the Box
Read moreDr. David Malet, Associate Director of the Melbourne School of Government and author of Foreign Fighters (Oxford University Press, 2013),…
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The roots of radicalisation? It’s identity, stupid
Read moreby Shiraz Maher, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR This article was originally published in The Guardian What links a white Englishman from Buckinghamshire with…
Click here to read ICSR’s latest report Childhood Innocence?: Mapping Trends in Teenage Terrorism Offenders