What level of risk are we willing to take when it comes to releasing those convicted of terrorism and who may re-offend?
Category: Perspectives
The death of AQ’s leader Ayman Al Zawahiri is a rare piece of good news in the war on terror but we need to temper our celebration: AQ lives on.
The recent 15-month sentence handed down to an ISIS terrorist/ex-Irish soldier is a timely reminder that the West is unprepared to deal with this threat.
Calling security services ‘systemically racist’ is not only unhelpful: it can interfere in the work these agencies do
Terrorism analysis and predictions often fall well short of their mark, making us wonder why all this work is done in the first place.
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What to do with online extremism
Efforts to remove content online is essentially ‘Whack-a-Mole’. New items are posted as quickly – or even more quickly – than old items are removed. Do we really want to play this game with terrorists?
Hey Canada! Resorting to generic, meaningless terminology to describe terrorism is inaccurate, unhelpful and deters from broader understanding.
We must get better at when to use the word terrorism to describe acts of violence: in a world rife with too much terrorism, why would we want to make more?
We have been ‘doing’ preventative work in the terrorism sphere for a few decades: is it time for a rethink?
How far should intelligence and law enforcement agencies go in investigating terrorist threats?