Counterterrorism
Counterterrorism
Neutrality Law, Anti-terrorism and Foreign Fighters: Legal Solutions to the Recruitment of Canadians to Foreign Insurgencies
Counter-Insurgency Intelligence: Looking Forward by Looking Back.
About the Book: This thought-provoking work analyzes the major debates surrounding counterinsurgency campaigns and uncovers the internal security problems derailing effective strategies for restoring stability. As countries across the globe – …
A Systematic Approach to Develop a Computational Framework for Counter-terrorism and Public Safety
The Complex Ecology of Policing, Trust, and Community Partnerships in Counterterrorism
About the Book: The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 raise important questions concerning security, terrorism, and the – …
Canada’s National Counterterrorism Strategy and Challenges of Community Based Intervention in Countering Radicalization: A Perspective.
Social Networks, Terrorism, and Counter-Terrorism: Radical and Connected
This book examines two key themes in terrorism studies, the radicalization process and counter-terrorism policies, through the lens of social networks. The book aims to show that networks should be – …
TSAS WP16-10: Research into How Resources are Acquired, Moved and Used to Support Acts of Terrorism
The study was directed to answer six questions on terrorist resourcing in Canada through a comparative analysis that identified: resourcing activities; actors involved; interconnections of activities; importance of different forms; – …
Planning for the Worst: Olympic Security and Precautionary Governance
‘Car Bombing “With Due Respect”: The Niger Delta Insurgency and the Idea of MEND’
Religious magnanimity: reminding people of their religious belief system reduces hostility after threat
Study 1 of 3: A Qualitative Examination of Radicalization and Susceptibility to Radicalization
Correctional Service Canada (CSC) staff members recognize the complex, multi-faceted nature of radicalization, and are familiar with a wide range of behaviours indicative of radicalization or susceptibility to radicalization. Responses – …
Study 2 of 3: Comparisons of Radicalized and Non-Radicalized Federal Offenders
The identification of considerable differences between radicalized and non-radicalized offenders across a variety of areas suggests that the case management, supervision, and intervention strategies used for each group may need – …
Study 3 of 3: Estimating Susceptibility to Prison Radicalization
The ability to estimate which inmates may be more susceptible to radicalizing influences and potentially intervene with those individuals prior to them being exposed or converted to a radical ideology – …
Examining the Needs and Motivations of Canada’s Federally Incarcerated Radicalized Offenders
This study allowed for an enhanced understanding of the motivations and needs of radicalized offenders,Footnote 1 while providing the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) with further evidence that can be – …
Use of Programs and Interventions with Canada’s Federally Sentenced Radicalized Offenders
TSAS WP15-06: Traits de personnalité et terrorisme
TSAS WP15-05: Personality Traits and Terrorism
Commission of Inquiry into the Air India Bombing: Recommendations
RCMP National Security Program
Trying to Make Sense of Homegrown Terrorist Radicalization: The Case of the Toronto 18
The Multiple Contexts of Russian Counterterrorism Frames: Framing Process and Discursive Field
TSAS WP15-01: The Global Fight Against Terror: An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Counter-terrorism Governance
What does counter-terrorism governance currently look like at the national, regional, and global levels, how effective has it been, and what are some possible ways forward? Since 9/11, intense efforts – …
TSAS WP14-12: Perceptions of Muslim Faith, Ethno-Cultural Community-based and Student Organizations in Countering Domestic Terrorism in Canada
What are the perceptions of Muslim community based organizations and university student organization leaders on domestic terrorism and counter-terrorism in Canada and what are their suggestions to prevent radicalization and – …
TSAS WP14-10: Social Perspectives on National Security: A review of recent literature
This review was commissioned by TSAS to survey the ways in which academic researchers have been trying to understand the experiences of exclusion by marginalized youth, and how these might – …
U.S. Intelligence Leaks Offer Chance for European Counterterrorism Reform
The recent revelations about U.S. intelligence programs are causing an uproar in Europe. In particular, the wide-ranging efforts to monitor European diplomatic offices and communications networks have led a number – …
Islamic Terrorism in the UK since 9/11: Reassessing the ‘Soft’ Response
Beyond Norms: the Incomplete De-securitisation of the Russian Counterterrorism Frame
This article analyses the tentative de-securitising move of the Russian counterterrorism frame under Medvedev’s presidency. (Source: Publication).
Halting al Qaeda’s African Rebound: Why Supporting the Arab Spring and Exploiting bin Laden’s Death will keep Canadians Safer
Little doubt exists that al Qaeda currently faces two unprecedented challenges: the “Arab Spring” sweeping the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the death of Osama bin Laden in – …
Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: a Choice Between Two Evils
Jean-Paul Brodeur’s research on terrorism spanned two distinct, yet inseparable aspects of the matter. The first concerns the inner workings, the objectives, and the methods of groups identified as “terrorist,” – …
TSAS WP14-05: The Effectiveness & Effects of Canada’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams
This paper is part of a larger project that studies the emergence of the idea of integration together with its implications. This paper asks: how has the idea of integration – …
Globally Aum: The Aum Affair, Counterterrorism and Religion
Aum continues to feature in counterterrorism discourses and military training manuals, and continues to represent, for security services and policy makers, the “public face” of chemical and biologically oriented terrorism. – …
Foreign Fighters in Syria
Over 12,000 fighters from at least 81 countries have joined the civil war in Syria, and the numbers continue to grow. Around 2,500 are from Western countries, including most members – …
A Persistent Threat: The Evolution of al Qa’ida and Other Salafi Jihadists
This report examines the status and evolution of al Qa’ida and other Salafi-jihadist groups, a subject of intense debate in the West. Based on an analysis of thousands of primary – …
New Terrorism and New Media
This report examines how Al-Qaeda, its affiliates and other terrorist organizations have moved their online presence to YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media outlets, posing challenges to counter-terrorism – …
TSAS WP14-04: Eco-Terrorism and the Corresponding Legislative Efforts to Intervene and Prevent Future Attacks
This study reviews the extent of attacks related to eco-terrorism from 1970 to 2012 to understand the development of this relatively new phenomenon in Canada, Japan and the United States. – …
TSAS WP14-01: Researching Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism through a Network Lens
In this paper, we argue that integrating network concepts and network methods to the study of terrorism and counter-terrorism are central ingredients in bringing the field forward from theoretical, empirical, – …
Bridging the Gaps: Voices From the Private Sector on Counter-Terrorism
Radicalization of Youth as a Growing Concern for Counter-Terrorism Policy
The portrayal of a terrorist as a foreigner from a disadvantaged marginalized country, striking at the Western values from abroad, is slowly fading with the latest increase in Canadian, American – …
Terrorism and Radicalization to Violence: Making Prevention Work
The Diffuse Border: Intelligence-Sharing, Control and Confinement along Canada’s Smart Border
Taking its cue from Deleuze’s reading of Foucault’s notion of apparatus (dispositif), this article explores the assemblage of mechanisms, institutions, discourses and practices that came to be conceptualized as a – …
A Public Health Approach to Understanding and Preventing Violent Radicalization
Very recent acts of terrorism in the UK were perpetrated by ‘homegrown’, well educated young people, rather than by foreign Islamist groups; consequently, a process of violent radicalization was proposed – …
Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America
Radicalization – A Guide for the Perplexed
The RCMP, National Security Criminal Investigations Program provides an introduction to terrorist radicalization in Canada, the challenges and how it’s being addressed.
Terrorism is a Failed Brand
Tracking the War of Ideas: A Poll of Ottawa Muslims
A 2008 poll of 430 Ottawa Muslims found predominantly negative views of the U.S. war on terrorism, including the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. (Source: Publication).
The Human Rights of Anti-terrorism
The Ottawa Principles on Anti-terrorism and Human Rights
In June 2006, experts on human rights and terrorism met in their individual capacities at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada to develop the following Principles on – …
Deterring Terrorism: Theory and Practice
Opportunity Costs or Costly Opportunities? The Arab Spring, Osama Bin Laden, and Al-Qaeda’s African Affiliates
There is little doubt that Al-Qaeda faces twin challenges in the “Arab Spring” sweeping North Africa and the Middle East (MENA) and in the death of Osama bin Laden in – …