Ensuring complete security against terrorist attacks, especially against vulnerable targets in Europe, is all but impossible. Here’s why.
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Indonesia should tackle the job and income insecurities that plague its large young workforce, to help prevent them being lured into joining violent extremist groups.
How easy is it to recognise a suspect from a CCTV image?
Family members share both genetics and environment to a greater extent than people in general. And this has implications for counterterrorism approaches.
The road to radicalisation can morph from an idea about noble deeds.
It’s going to take time and money, but the country must act on its terrorism problem.
Terrorist attacks that are locally sourced and financed are very hard to detect.
Violent Islamist extremism appears to have reached a crisis point in Europe with a “perfect storm” of circumstances, Malcolm Turnbull has said.
The deadly terror attack in Brussels raises the issue of safety and security at airports. But this is more about our approach to risk in any areas where people are known to gather.
From Tintin weeping to spotlit buildings, images are rapidly circulating on social media as a way of comprehending the Brussels bombings. But where was the cartoon for those who died in Ankara? Are some tragedies “ungrievable”?
Although not an intuitive conclusion, the Brussels attacks are actually indicative of Islamic State’s growing decline and desperation.
Solidarity and support for those affected shows collective resilience of crowds in emergencies.
Fragmented policing had played a part in this tragedy – and the EU must acknowledge what has gone wrong before solutions can be found.
What goes on in the mind of a suicide bomber? What motivates someone to spend their last day on the planet blowing up complete strangers? Bad enough, perhaps, if the strangers in question are soldiers…
Most people will be disgusted at attempts by the Brexit lobby to use the terror attacks for their own political ends.
The focus has for a long time been on protecting aircraft. We’ve just been reminded how vulnerable pre-check-in areas can be.
Scholars specializing in extremism are beginning to unravel how people – including a higher number of Americans than one might expect – become radicalized to embrace political violence.
An expert in aviation security explains why this was a target for terrorists.
Belgian police have done little to win hearts and minds in this neighbourhood.
The tradition of republicanism offered us civil religion, a foundation of belief that could counter any politics or policy that demands sacrifice in this world to be compensated in some “beyond”.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
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Senior research Fellow, Leeds Beckett University
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor in Public Law and Human Rights, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clemson University
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Associate Professor, Law School, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies, Georgia State University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
