by Anne Speckhard | May 5, 2018 | Commentary, Defence & Security, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism
A recent PBS series highlighted the case of an American mother, Samantha Elhassani, who took her two American children into the so-called Islamic State and had two more babies there with her Moroccan husband, who became a member of ISIS. Her two eldest children, now...
by Kasim Dogan, PhD | Apr 4, 2018 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Radicalisation & Polarisation
“While estimating the number of children who have travelled from Europe to DAESH territory is difficult, another unknown is the actual number of children born (or yet to be born) in Syria or Iraq to European parents.”[1] Some of children were teenagers and went to the...
by Michael Stone | Feb 4, 2018 | Commentary, Defence & Security, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Radicalisation & Polarisation, Research
Hezbollah has long championed the armed confrontation against Israel in the Middle East. (ICG Report 2017, 2). Its image in the Arab street made a peak after the July war in 2006, and the group depicted this as its second victory after ending the Israeli...
by Anne Speckhard | Feb 1, 2018 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Radicalisation & Polarisation
Hundreds of thousands of children around the world have been seduced and forced into being child soldiers and cadres in the service of armed and violent groups. Many have been successfully treated using a combination of individual, family and community...
by BEYOND THE HORIZON | Jan 12, 2018 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Radicalisation & Polarisation
By Fatih Celenay, Brandon Rapoza, Ratna Gamage The purpose of this paper is to design a toolkit to decrease the violence and terrorism in Somalia. What are the practical solutions to increase the efficiency of military campaigns against Al Shabaab? We will conduct our...
by Transatlantic Task Force | Nov 23, 2017 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Radicalisation & Polarisation, Research
By Uğur ORAK, Non-resident Fellow at Beyond the Horizon, Ph.D Candidate and Kasim DOGAN, Visiting Fellow at Beyond the Horizon, PhD 1. Introduction If we can determine what drives people to commit such heinous crimes, it is suggested, perhaps we can change their...
