ICSR TeamIsrael’s bombardment of Lebanon: Reopening Lebanon’s sectarian wounds
Read moreBy Mohamad El Kari Thanks to the ceasefire deal agreed with Israel, Lebanon has recently entered a state of fragile…
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Blood diamonds and bloodshed: The psychological drivers of violence in Sierra Leone’s civil war
Read moreBy Clara May Sierra Leone’s civil war (1991-2002) was brutal. Reports of ‘savagery’ were not simply displays of rhetoric. Alongside…
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Unravelling conflict: The power of predictive modelling
Read moreBy Sam Hibbs Over the past decade, the number and intensity of both inter- and intrastate conflicts has been rising.…
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Q&A with Nils Mallock – XCEPT research
Read moreNils Mallock is a postdoctoral researcher with the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme at King’s College…
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The rise of Soldiers of God: Is Beirut back to the time of the militias?
Read moreBy Mohamad El Kari Members of Soldiers of God. Credit: An-Nahar They are a group of Lebanese muscular tattooed men…
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Rebuilding Downtown Beirut: Laying the foundations for division or reconciliation?
Read moreBy Clara May Beirut is the posterchild for a divided city. 15 years of fighting during Lebanon’s civil war (1975-1990)…
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Green Mosul: How trees helped a city recover after conflict
Read moreDr Omar Mohammed is a renowned historian and the voice behind ‘Mosul Eye’, a blog which anonymously documented life under…
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‘These statues are not just pieces of stone’: How sculpture helps Mosul heal
Read moreBy Ali Al-Baroodi The city of Mosul in Iraq encloses the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh, which was…
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Understanding the role of unconscious bias in conflict dynamics
Read moreBy Emma Ciccarella Standing before members of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, in 1977, then President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, declared that…
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Photo essay: A week in Iraq
Read moreIn 2023, Dr Inna Rudolf, Dr Craig Larkin, and Dr Rajan Basra from the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends…
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The costs of ignoring conflict trauma in men and boys
Read moreBy Dr Heidi Riley and Clara May Content warning: contains mention of sexual violence and suicide. President Volodymyr Zelensky of…
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Waiting for war: Escalation on Lebanon’s southern border and conflict memory
Read moreBy Brontë Philips *This was written in December 2023, before the targeting of a senior Hamas commander in Beirut. Information…
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Four years on from Lebanon’s 17 October revolution
Read moreBy Mohamad El Kari Visiting Lebanon today, it is difficult to escape the feeling that a collective sense of hopelessness…
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What do we mean when we talk about ‘resilience’ to violent extremism?
Read moreBy Federica Calissano Speaking at a memorial event 10 years on from 9/11, then President of the United States, Barack…
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Dr Inna Rudolf shares her research on post-conflict recovery in Mosul
Read moreDr Inna Rudolf is a Research Fellow on the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme at King’s…
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Q&A with Dr Rajan Basra – XCEPT research
Read moreDr Rajan Basra is a post-doctoral researcher on the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme at King’s…
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Martyrdom in Lebanon: An evolution of memory-making
Read moreBy Bronte Philips In a speech given on Hezbollah’s 11 November Martyrs’ Day in 2021, the group’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah,…
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Q&A with Dr Fiona McEwen – XCEPT research
Read moreDr Fiona McEwen is the Survey and Interventions Director of the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme…
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Can uncertainty make us violent? The role of uncertainty in encouraging violent and extremist ideologies
Read moreBy Federica Calissano Credit: Shutterstock/zimmytws. Uncertainty is a condition that all individuals experience, and it is something that we all, to…
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Translation in conflict: An instrument of power or a place of neutrality?
Read moreBy Mohamad El Kari Credit: Shutterstock/igor kisselev. Within the realm of conflict zones, translators play a complex role in representing, and…
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Forgotten refugees – the experiences of Syrian military defectors in Turkey
Read moreBy Alison Brettle Photo: January 2023: Syrian refugee tents near the Syrian-Turkish border. Credit: Shutterstock/Mohammad Bash. In the 12 months…
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The legacy of trauma: Can trauma be transmitted across generations?
Read moreBy Pauline Zerla Photo: Belfast, 2018: a women writes on the wall of peace commemorating the violence that happened in…
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Gun-toting grannies and cattle raiders: why understanding civilian-combatant identities can help conflict recovery
Read moreBy Alison Brettle Photo: Man from Mundari Tribe, South Sudan. Credit: klublu/Shutterstock. What might Ukraine’s gun-toting grannies have in common…
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What’s next for children in IS-affiliated families from Iraq?
Read moreBy Joana Cook *In November 2022, the newly formed government of Iraq suspended repatriations of Iraqi nationals from al-Hol camp.…
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Storytelling, Memory and Momentum: Iraq’s Tishreen Movement
Read moreBy Ruba Ali Al-Hassani Introduction While many observers claim that Iraq’s Tishreen protest movement has been coerced into silence,…
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The Spectre of Neuroscience in Security Studies
Read moreBy Nafees Hamid What can neuroscience tell us about violent extremism? As a cognitive scientist who was part of…
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Stories as Research: How Community Narratives Inform Conflict Research
Read moreBy Pauline Zerla Communities in the Central African Republic have experienced war for over a decade. Yet we rarely hear…
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Do No (Self) Harm: Acknowledging Researcher Vulnerability in Research Ethics
Read moreBy Gina Vale Social media has become an indispensable aspect of everyday life. Platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, Tumblr,…
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The Importance of Prisons to Terrorist Groups and Movements
Read moreBy Rajan Basra Throughout the history of terrorism, few locations have impacted the evolution of terrorist campaigns as the jail…
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Bringing Loyalist and Opposition Factions Together: The Prospects for Reconciliation in New Syria
Read moreBy Rahaf Aldoughli When Syria’s Bashar al-Assad was running for re-election in 2021, scenes of patriotic regime loyalists piercing their…
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Conflict Trauma and Violence: How Can We Promote Peace?
Read moreBy Ted Barker, Shiraz Maher & Craig Larkin The past two decades have seen a slew of programmatic efforts aimed…
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The Iraqi Politics of Memory and Victimhood
Read moreBy Ela Khaled and Inna Rudolf After nearly three months of backroom deal attempts and horse-trading, Iraq’s newly appointed legislators…
ICSR Team“Today it’s Chauvin, Tomorrow it’ll be Another White Man”: Far-Right Reactions to the Conviction of Derek Chauvin
Read moreBy Research Fellows Hannah Rose and Blyth Crawford You can also find the full text here. Content warning: this piece…
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QAnon and the 2020 US Election: What Trump’s Loss Means for the pro-Trump Conspiracy
Read moreBy Research Fellow Blyth Crawford You can also find the full text here. Amid continuing turbulence surrounding the results of…
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The Proud Boys
Read moreBy Research Fellow Blyth Crawford You can also find the full text here. Last night, during the first presidential debate…
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Erdoğan and the Last Quest for the Greenmantle
Read moreBy Saud al-Sarhan, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies You can also find the full text here. Following…
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Haftar’s Calculus for Libya: What Happened, and What is Next?
Read moreBy Research Fellow Inga Kristina Trauthig You can also find the full text here. In recent days, a battle for…
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Will the Safe Bet Deliver?
Read moreBy Research Fellow Inna Rudolf. Click here to read the full article, which was published in zenith. Branded as a compromise…
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Joana Cook and Gina Vale’s Briefing at the United Nations Security Council
Read moreOn 23 August 2018, ICSR Fellows Joana Cook and Gina Vale were invited to present their latest report, ‘From Daesh…
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Charlie Winter’s Address at the United Nations’ Open Meeting on Countering Terrorist Narratives
Read moreSenior Research Fellow Charlie Winter delivered an address at the open meeting of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee on countering terrorist narratives…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Between The Islamic State and al-Qaeda in Tunisia
Read moreBy Aaron Y. Zelin, ICSR Rena and Sami David Fellow Over the past month, there are increasing signs that The Islamic…
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The State of al-Qaeda
Read moreby Aaron Y. Zelin, ICSR Rena and Sami David Fellow Ten years ago, an individual once said: “We are in…
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Professor Neumann’s Remarks at White House Summit
Read moreThis is an abbreviated version of the remarks delivered by ICSR Director Peter R. Neumann at the White House Summit…
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The Islamic State Model
Read moreThis article by ICSR’s Rena and Sami David Fellow Aaron Y. Zelin is part of the Islamist Politics in the Shadow…
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Foreign fighter total in Syria/Iraq now exceeds 20,000; surpasses Afghanistan conflict in the 1980s
Read moreBy Peter R. Neumann, ICSR Director The number of foreigners that have joined Sunni militant organizations in the Syria/Iraq conflict…
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German foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq
Read moreThis article by ICSR Associate Fellow Daniel Heinke and Jan Raudszus appears in the current issue of CTC Sentinel, where sources…
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ICSR and BBC Publish Global Survey of Jihadist Violence
Read moreClick here for the full report. The product of a unique and powerful collaboration, ICSR and the BBC have just…
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Guardian and ICSR Document British fighters killed in Syria/Iraq Conflict
Read moreIn cooperation with the Guardian newspaper, ICSR has produced the most comprehensive documentation of British fighters killed in the Syria/Iraq…
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ICSR Advises U.N. Security Council On Foreign Fighters
Read moreLater today, U.S. President Barack Obama will introduce a landmark resolution at the UN Security Council in New York…
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Offering Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq a Way Out
Read moreThis article was published by the Independent newspaper and is available here. By Shiraz Maher and Peter Neumann In yesterday’s Daily Telegraph, [London…
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