This article examines the role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in counter-radicalization Nigeria, with emphasis on Boko Haram terrorist group operating northeast Nigeria and greater Lake Chad region. A qualitative methodological approach is employed that makes use primary secondary documents, key informant stakeholder interviews, focus discussions critical religious actors organizations. Th...

Abstract The overlapping of a series events in the region has brought Sahel under spotlight many European countries. It been argued that peculiar transnational nature terrorist groups area represents concrete threat to security. France, specifically, led and encouraged initiatives, which aim stabilize region, calling for different degrees counterterrorism cooperation with its allies. Many count...

T he United States cannot conduct an eff ective counterterrorism campaign against al Qa’ida or other terrorist groups without understanding how such groups end. While it is clear that U.S. policymakers will need to turn to a range of policy instruments to conduct such campaigns—including careful police and intelligence work, military force, political negotiations, and economic sanctions—what is...

* Paul K. Davis is a senior principal researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor of policy analysis in the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His early studies were in the hard sciences and he received a Ph.D. in theoretical chemical physics at M.I.T. After working on strategic technology and systems analysis at the Institute for Defense Analyses, he joined the U.S. government to work on stra...

Peacefully sheltered in Canada’s Rocky Mountain foothills, Kananaskis seemed far distant from the menace of terrorism or nuclear calamity. But the G-8 summit of 2002 marked a potentially important advance in cooperative threat reduction (CTR) in Russia—and signaled a dramatic expansion in the scale of Canada’s own CTR engagement. In truth, the setting was fitting. Canadian participation in CTR ...

Constructions of terrorism emanate from a wide range of sources. Governments and international organizations create criminal laws and administrative lists defining who is a terrorist or what acts constitute terrorism. In society, discussions among its members and the press play a major role in how the words terrorism and extremism are used and applied, which in turn influences public understand...

Studies regarding women in the US foreign policy mainly concentrate on place of with a particular attention to institutions that play significant role making process such as Congress, State Department and National Security Council. They analyze roles, positions responsibilities policy-making through gender-based approaches. While roles or influence is quite an important topic, there also raisin...

The past year has seen a rapid expansion of intelligence and law enforcement community efforts in the areas of Counter-terrorism and Homeland Defense, principally in the US, but also in most major democracies of the world. This has led to a corresponding increase in research and development activities in this area as well. Many of the problems in this area involve dealing with large amounts of ...

1. Overview..............................................................................................................................................................1 2. Research Accomplishments .................................................................................................................................3 Innovations in risk and economic modeling of counter-terrorism .......