by Anne Speckhard | Mar 6, 2019 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Terrorism, Conflict and War
By Anne Speckhard*, Ardian Shajkovci** Unmanned and remote-controlled aircrafts, i.e. drones, continue to change the character of contemporary warfare.[i] It was satellites and drones, alongside a good deal of human intelligence, that located Osama bin Laden...
by Ishaan Tharoor | Feb 27, 2019 | Commentary, Terrorism, Conflict and War, War and Conflict
If you followed certain Indian media outlets in the early hours of Tuesday, you probably heard that Indian Air Force jets swooped into Pakistani airspace and carried out devastating strikes on militant camps, killing roughly 300 fighters. If you were watching in...
by Anant Mishra* | Feb 21, 2019 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Terrorism, Conflict and War
Introduction Post 9/11 world, exposed intelligence agencies to an age old tradition of channelling funds across the globe using mordern international financial system. In this, the transnational organized criminal networks used the digital world to carry out money...
by Helen Lackner | Jan 17, 2019 | Commentary, Peace and Conflict Management, Terrorism, Conflict and War
The fear and terror induced by this situation, combined with unbearable survival conditions are creating a generation of psychologically scarred people, many of whom will never be able to live normal lives. Less than a month after the signature of the Stockholm...
by Craig Whiteside** | Jan 15, 2019 | Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Research, Terrorism, Conflict and War
The Islamic State is infamous for its sophisticated media campaigns, such as the one that inspired a large-scale migration of supporters to its so-called caliphate. Much less attention has been paid to its propaganda targeting local audiences, which tends to be more...
by Anne Speckhard | Jan 11, 2019 | Commentary, Radicalisation & Polarisation, Terrorism, Conflict and War
By Anne Speckhard*, Ardian Shajkovci** and Hamid Sebaly*** At a recent counterterrorism conference held by the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism in Brussels, Belgium, a seven-year-old’s words touched the issues currently pressing upon the heart...
