This site gathers high-quality academic research on radicalisation and makes it easily accessible for policymakers, journalists, and anyone else whose work deals with this area. The VERE (Violent Extremism Research and Evidence) repository, developed by NATO and DSTL is also hosted on the site.
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Critical Studies on Terrorism
Women and Warcare: Gendered Islamophobia in Counterterrorism
Counterterrorism continues to play a central role in international and national security strategies, including an expansion of a controversial programme known as Countering Violent Extremism (CVE).
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
Why Now? Timing Rebel Recruitment of Female Combatants
Using case study evidence, this article demonstrates how the relationship between conflict intensity, gender inclusive ideologies and gender inclusive policies on one hand, and the decision to recruit female combatants on the other hand, is conditioned by the groups' conflict phase.
Latest articles
Critical Studies on Terrorism
Racial control under the guise of terror threat: policing of US Muslim, Arab, and SWANA communities
Using an analysis of U.S. government policies that have had high impacts on the personal safety and freedom of movement and expression of Arabs, Muslims, and others of Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) origins living in or seeking to migrate to the US…
Critical Studies on Terrorism
A framing-sensitive approach to militant groups’ tactics: the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine and the radicalisation of violence during the Second Intifada
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Border vigilante/Militia activity, the National Security State, and the Migrant “Threat”
Blackness after 9/11: topographies of race and counter-terror at the 9/11 memorial museum
Rethinking the Beirut bombing, rethinking terrorism: theorising counterviolence
The cultural construction of sympathiser social identities in the Islamic state’s virtual ecosystem: an analysis of the politics of naming