April 2013 Newsletter

Solicitations Released in Support of the Program on Transnational Issues The U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice has recently released two solicitations that seek applications regarding research topics of interest to the Program on Transnational Issues. The two solicitations combine to improve our understanding of these issues andRead more

On March 27-28th, 2013, a Global Counterterrorism Symposium on Measuring Effectiveness of Countering Violent Extremism Programming took place in Ottawa. TSAS Senior research affiliate, Jeremy Littlewood (professor at Carleton’s Norman Patterson School of International Affairs) attended the symposium on behalf of TSAS. his summary of the event follows. Within theRead more

The next TSAS workshop will be held in Ottawa on May 2-3, 2013. The Workshop has been organized around a simple set of principles: 1) Present the best scholarship available on issues of terrorism and counter-terrorism; 2) Select a mixed group of speakers from Canada and abroad, as well asRead more

Wellcome ImagesThe panel of government representatives from various branches of Public Safety Canada, RCMP, FINTRAC, and Justice Canada indicated their interest in a broad set of potential data with various units of analysis incidents, groups, individuals, court cases, etc.). However, the primary purpose of the workshop and related solicitation focusedRead more

Elanna Nolan, Junior TSAS Affiliate and PhD candidate with UBC’s, Department of Geography reports on a panel from the Metropolis 2013 Conference that took place in March. No social crisis appeals more to urban pessimism than the moral crisis of rioting youth, exemplified by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’sRead more

A Message from TSAS Co-director, Daniel Hiebert Welcome to the first newsletter of the TSAS network. Perhaps it would be helpful to provide a quick summary of where TSAS came from and its recent history. TSAS emerged out of conversations between researchers and government officials over the last 6 orRead more

On Friday, March 15th, 2013 TSAS organized a plenary that took place at the Canadian Metropolis Conference in Ottawa. The plenary was chaired by UBC professor, and TSAS Co-director, Daniel Hiebert. Speakers included Quirine Eijkman, ICCT, University of Leiden, the Netherlands; Shandon Harris-Hogan, Monash University, Australia; Lasse Lindekilde, University ofRead more