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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.
Many tech titans say they can self-regulate online hate speech and extremism with artificial intelligence, but can they?
An unprecedented onslaught from the US hasn't destroyed the terrorist organization. What is the secret of its resilience?
The wars against Islamic State and al-Qaida show that military responses may seem to work in the short term but don’t change much in the long run.
Trained and funded by Australia and the US, Detachment 88 is winning the fight against terrorism in Indonesia, though not without some controversy and continued challenges.
To prevent people from climbing the staircase to terrorism, educating people about the values of tolerance should start early.
The attacks show not only a shift in women's roles in violent extremism, but also the involvement of families in acts of terror.
Machine learning isn't reliable enough yet – and it's short-sighted to only train this detection tech on jihadi content.
Was the early conception of IS a branching-out of the old Baath party? Or was it, as some argue, completely separate with no connection at all? Reality is probably a bit of a mix of both.
No country is immune to terrorism, but de-radicalizing people who have been attracted to terrorist organizations like ISIS can work.
ISIS may have lost most of their territory, but it's important to be aware that ISIS can still utilise the Internet and social media to recruit people and to spread their fantastical propaganda.
Raffaello Pantucci explains what lone-actor terrorism is, why it's effective and why we seem to be seeing more attacks that aren't clearly connected to terror networks in this long-form comic explainer.
Despite the fact that the Islamic State is on the run, the terrorist group still manages to inspire, motivate and maintain the social identity and cohesion of its members. Here's how.
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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, 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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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation; Co-Director, Australian Intervention Support Hub, Deakin University
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Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Director of Electronic Warfare Research, City, University of London
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