In mid-October 2017, Conflict Management Consulting (CMC) and the Eastern Mediterranean Institute (EMI) conducted a flash survey of 100 citizens in newly liberated Mosul, Iraq. Respondents were randomly selected, identifying households by skip-step sampling, and using the Kish-grid method to select respondents within households.
This is the 4th edition of Australia and New Zealand’s National Counter-Terrorism Plan, for 2017.
This document contains the Serbian national action plan for 2017-2021.
Like many other regions, South Asia is confronted with a rapidly transforming terrorism threat landscape that is increasingly transnational in nature. Local grievances and sociopolitical dynamics have been exploited by groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and linked to a global master…
Last month, police arrested 25 people for allegedly planning synchronized terrorist attacks in Kosovo and Albania, including against the Israeli national soccer team and its fans during a match. Authorities said the foiled attacks had been ordered and coordinated by ISIS commanders from Kosovo fighting in Syria and Iraq. The…
Relying in large part on primary empirical evidence, this report explores the dynamics of violent extremism in Kosovo and the disproportionately high number of radicalized fighters from the region in Syria and Iraq. Examining the historic, cultural, geopolitical, and socioeconomic factors behind the phenomenon, it focuses on the flow as…
Compared to other parts of the world, the potential threat emanating from terrorism is low in most countries in Latin America. Most terrorist acts occur in the Andean region of South America, committed by two Colombian guerrilla groups—the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN)—and…
Link to the official UN Security Council Resolution 2322.
Trinidad has the highest rate of Islamic State recruitment in the Western hemisphere. How did this happen?
In the wake of the June 12 IS-inspired attack in Orlando, FL, many questions have been raised about what is being done to fight IS – not only on the ground in Iraq and Syria, but also on the Internet, where a war of ideas and influence is taking place….
Some of the web’s biggest companies have unveiled new plans to crack down on extremist and terrorism-promoting material. Facebook, Google-owned YouTube, Twitter, and Microsoft are stepping up efforts to remove extremist content from their websites by creating a common database….
The threat of violent extremism is more geographically dispersed and more localized than ever, yet the security-focused and other responses of national governments and multilateral institutions have not been and will not be sufficient to counter and prevent its spread. A more comprehensive and strategic approach that empowers local actors…
