Dutch and Belgian jihadist foreign fighters: who, why, and what? Dutch and Belgian jihadist foreign fighters: Who are they? Why do they go? And what do they do over there? Edwin Bakker and Roel de Bont • September 12, 2016
Conference on European Jihadism in the 'Caliphate' Era Under the title ‘European Jihadism in the ‘Caliphate’ Era’ the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and the Norwegian Ministry of Defence brought together about 80 experts in Oslo to discuss today’s jihadist terrorist threat to Europe. Edwin Bakker and Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn • September 09, 2016
Life Beyond Bars In the status quo regarding punishment of lifers, the final aim of punishment – rehabilitation – seems to be abandoned. If rehabilitation should be a part of punishment, society should be questioning to what extent it is willing to pay the price. Marieke Liem • September 05, 2016
Critical infrastructure breakdowns Resilience is one of the hallmarks of the internet as a 'system.' Malfunctioning of the internet - as occurred early September 2016 in the Netherlands - shows vulnerabilities too. Sanneke Kuipers • September 05, 2016
Policing European Metropolises: The Politics of Security in City Regions Elke Devroe will present the results of the international research project Policing European Metropolises Project (PEMP), a project comparing 22 cases (city regions) in 10 different countries. Elke Devroe and Jaroslaw Kantorowicz • September 02, 2016
Labeling Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM): A case of terrorism, insurgency or organized crime? By taking a long view on AQIM’s development and its history, and using a new framework, more conceptual clarity can be brought to the debate on the difference between terrorism and insurgency. Sergei Boeke • August 29, 2016
To blame or not to blame? How leaders frame crises and what they get out of it. Ruth Prins • August 22, 2016
'We were no Florence Nightingale' The Spanish Civil War hardly plays a role in the Dutch collective memory – only recently it is occasionally brought up as a comparison to Islamic State and the foreign fighter phenomenon. Seran de Leede • August 15, 2016
Protest! New insights into an omnipresent phenomenon Street protests are omnipresent, but poorly understood. Recent research provides new insights into these events and their core actors (protesters and the police). Anouk van Leeuwen • August 08, 2016
