March 2014 Newsletter

TSAS has launched its newly revamped Digital Library, which is searchable by key word, author, subject, geographic location and resource type. This Digital Library was established to support TSAS’s mission to cultivate new scholars through communication and collaboration. Our aim is to provide information and, when able, access to aRead more

TSAS held a highly successful 2-day workshop titled, Security Policies and Community Relationships in November, 2013 and brought together seventeen researchers, community leaders, government policy makers and practitioners to present on the topic. Experts spoke on a broad range of issues including the prevention of radicalization, deradicalization, and on buildingRead more

TSAS has dynamic new student-led blog on issues related to terrorism, security, and society last month. The blog is intended to facilitate the objectives of the network, principally to develop the domestic research capacity and knowledge mobilization mechanisms required to shape and support a more sophisticated and distinctively Canadian approachRead more

A message from TSAS Co-director, Dan Hiebert It’s hard for me to process the fact, as I write this, that our two-year ‘startup’ phase of TSAS will be done in just a few weeks. We received funding from the Kanishka Program and SSHRC in 2012 to establish the network andRead more

Review, by TSAS Affiliate Dr. Jeremy Littlewood It is widely assumed that terrorist groups or cells are formed and held together, at least in part, by a leader and, given the violent, clandestine, and law-breaking nature of the objectives of such groups ‘leaders’ and their ‘followers’ must have formed aRead more

“I look forward to the challenge of improving the rigor and quality of Canadian terrorism research through the CIDB.” The Project Lead for the Canadian Incident Database (CIDB) is James Ellis. A Fulbright scholar, he holds a Master’s of Letters degree in International Security Studies focused on Terrorism from theRead more