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What movitaves these wealthy young people from doing this atrocity?
According to a new study, a small portion of a site can yield thousands of objects, adding up to millions of dollars.
A terrorism expert exposes the quirks, inconsistencies and foreign policy strategy behind the State Department's terrorist watchlist.
After a civil conflict, within five years the majority of modern peace agreements fail. What is causing these negotiated settlements to fall apart?
Only by prosecuting extremists will the world be able to marginalize those who carry out violent acts and those who give credence to their ideas.
Its defeat in Syria may now give way to new dangers.
Hundreds of thousands of women helped the Nazi cause. Few ever faced justice.
Like today's Western women who joined ISIS and now want to return home, American women with British sympathies during the Revolution left the country – but many tried to bring their families back.
Many of the men and women who left homes in the West to join ISIS or similar terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq as fighters or supporters now want to come home. Should they be allowed back?
Iraq beat the Islamic State. Now, its Shia government is jailing and even executing all suspected terrorists – most of them Sunni Muslims. The clampdown may inflame a centuries-old sectarian divide.
Kenya needs to disseminate and implement intelligence so that it can effectively prevent and counter future terror attempts.
Keeping the water and power on, managing sewers and collecting garbage will help communities shattered by the Syrian civil war rebuild – and keep out the Islamic State, says a former aid official.
Why did negotiations between the Turkish state and the Kurds, aimed at mitigating ethnic conflict and bringing about peace, fail in Turkey?
There is a common misconception in the West that leaders of al-Qaida and ISIS are recruiting and brainwashing people into giving up their lives for the Jihad. This is an incorrect model.
An analysis reveals that using terrorism may not be very effective in achieving long-term political goals, when compared to other peaceful means.
The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad should strengthen efforts against the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
Indonesia can also apply strategies implemented by the Philippine government to counteract terrorism and radicalism.
If Canada truly stands for multiculturalism, pluralism, the rule of law, global justice, human rights and the liberal international order, we must prosecute our citizens who have fought with ISIS.
With the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two leaders who fight against sexual violence as a tool of war, we looked into our archive to find stories about those efforts across the globe.
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Newark
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Adjunct Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex University
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Executive Director, The Montréal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Languages, Culture and Society, UCL
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Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Director of Electronic Warfare Research, City, University of London
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PhD Candidate in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Professor of International Relations and Human Rights, University of Dundee
