Islamic State propaganda lures both friends and foes into disproportionately focusing on the group’s strengths and overlooking its weakness.
Reuters
Islamic State uses propaganda to coax its enemies into misguided politico-military and strategic communications efforts.
On the lookout after the attack in Ouagadougou.
Reuters/Joe Penney
Burkina Faso is on its way to becoming a healthy and stable democracy – and that’s got West Africa’s jihadists riled.
Reuters/Khuram Parvez
The Pakistani Taliban has shown it can still mount terror attacks in the country’s frontier province … despite a major military offensive.
Schooling doubt.
Ethan Lofton
Tackling extremism, building happier adults and delivering a generation that can adapt to rapid change. Putting thinking and thinkers at the heart of the curriculum should be an easy decision.
If people really want to create a social movement to counter terrorism, we should expand our reach offline.
Reuters/Darren Whiteside
Indonesians reacted defiantly on social media after the bombings and shootings in Jakarta last week. But how effective is the response on social media in countering terrorism?
Indonesia should devise policies to deal with recidivism among ex-terror convicts and the spread of extremist messages online.
Reuters/Darren Whiteside
Fighting terrorism purely through security measures will not be enough. Indonesia should devise policies to rehabilitate and monitor former convicted terrorists to prevent recidivism.
Fear is not the answer.
Reuters/Darren Whiteside
IS has claimed a wave of deadly bombings and shootings in Jakarta, but its long-feared Asian campaign is yet to materialise in earnest.
Indonesian police in the front line of the fight with terrorists.
Reuters/Darren Whiteside
What is the landscape of Indonesia’s terror groups? And what threat does the country face following Thursday’s deadly attacks in Jakarta?
Heightened security in Istanbul after the attack.
Reuters/Murad Sezer
Tensions at home and abroad make the latest attack by Islamic State particularly difficult to bear.
Only with a three-pronged long-term approach of education, economic growth and security action can terrorism be defeated.
EPA/Mohammed Elryani
Listening to the thinking process and justification of potential terrorists is critical to finding a path to defeat terrorism.
We know what we look like, but how do algorithms see us?
Cracksinthestreet
We increasingly depend on algorithms applied to big data, but even algorithms make mistakes that could label us in worrying ways
Militant suffragettes used arson and vandalism to draw attention to their struggle. Did they have a moral right to do so?
Victoria Woodhull attempting to vote in 1871, via Everett Historical.
The movie Suffragettes shows the occasionally violent and sensational tactics used by militant suffragettes. Were these justified?
Legal or illegal, the US is awash in guns.
Reuters
Though the perpetrators of the mass shooting in California appear to have acquired their guns legally, the vast majority used in violent crimes are obtained illegally.
It’s not looking good.
Reuters/Mohamad Torokman
This has been a remarkably violent year – and many of the worst threats to human security are no less a problem than they were a year ago.
Tony Abbott leaves the partyroom on September 14, having lost the Liberal leadership and prime ministership to Malcolm Turnbull.
AAP/Sam Mooy
2015 started as it finished, with terrorist atrocities, intractable conflicts and political upheavals that toppled several leaders, including Australia’s prime minister, Tony Abbott.
State leaders endorsed a plan at COAG last week that would see some terrorists jailed indefinitely.
AAP/David Moir
Detaining persons convicted of terrorist offences for lengthy periods after they have served their time could risk radicalising a section of the community who see the measure as unjust.
Our response to terrorism.
Reuters
The root cause of our vulnerability is the structure of the global economy: highly interconnected, complex and filled with turbulence.
COAG leaders have pushed out any decision on tax until their next meeting in March 2016.
David Moir/AAP
State and federal leaders seem as far away as ever from an agreement on the direction of tax reform.
Seriously? This guy?
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The Mafia’s reported promise of protection from Islamic State might seem like an offer you can’t refuse. Wrong.
Fear dominates political conversations and slowly strengthens the acceptability of secrecy in 21st-century governments.
Ben Eenhoorn
Australian society has become dangerously accustomed to our politicians using “national security” as an excuse for the obfuscation of sticky truths.