In their article, the authors present – using a comparative approach current issue of security awareness. doing so, they start from concept security, then move on to awareness, and outline significant moments its development concerning national services. They briefly flash police crime prevention awareness presentation counterterrorism perspective. The article concludes with topic private persp...

Certain terrorists come from unexpected backgrounds. They give up comfortable lives and opportunities in order to wage jihad. Their existence has puzzled various theorists since they came to light. This article will explain how a theory of psychosocial identity formation created by Erik Erikson and his student James Marcia may explain this phenomenon. It will also explain how Erikson's theoreti...

To advance the agenda in counterterrorism, this work demonstrates how analysts can combine unsupervised machine learning, exploratory data analysis, and statistical tests to discover features associated with different terrorist motives. A new empirical text mining method created a “motive” field Global Terrorism Database enable associative relationship among that characterize events. The method...

Education for citizenship has been the subject of growing policy and research attention since beginning twenty-first century. Yet, alongside conventional assumptions that school can help young learners develop socio-political attitudes support democratic behaviours, there are political expectations educators will actively prevent terrorism. In Norway, these have had implications educational pol...

Abstract Afghanistan is one of the most drone-affected states, however, very few scholarly studies drone use there exist. This article uses original fieldwork data in a strategically important area Afghanistan, eastern Nangarhar province, to analyse effects context. It raises concerns about ability US attain stated counterterrorism and counterinsurgency goals. Our results show contextualised an...

Governments collect data in which they hope to find patterns of terrorist activity. It is hard to know what such patterns look like and, in any case, terrorists are actively trying to avoid leaving any distinctive traces. However, if they work as a group, it is impossible to avoid some correlation among their attributes and actions. We show that such correlation can be detected, partly because ...

Terrorists’ tactics have changed, and security services have had to change theirs in response. We are seeing fewer highly trained extremists carrying out carefully planned attacks and more lone actions by vulnerable people incited by internet propaganda. Last month’s attacks on Westminster Bridge and in Paris bear this out. But does this mean that doctors should change how they behave? The gove...

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