ICSR Publications

Al Qaeda Plots against the West: Evolution, Myth, and Reality

2012-01-30 00:00:00

ICSR was delighted to host Mitchell Silber, Director of Intelligence Analysis, New York City Police Department Intelligence Division, for the launch of his latest book The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots against the West (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2011).

To listen to the talk, please click here.

The English Defence League and the New Far Right -- How Big Is the Threat?

2012-01-25 00:00:00

The English Defence League and the New Far Right -- How Big Is the Threat?

Yesterday ICSR held its first panel discussion on the English Defence League and the New Far Right. Chaired by ICSR Co-Director, Professor Peter Neumann, both its origins and its future was discussed.

Speakers:
    * Jamie Bartlett, Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme, Demos and author of 'Inside the EDL' (2011)
    * Matthew Collins, Hope Not Hate and author of Hate: My Life in the British Far Right (2011)
    * Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Research Fellow at ICSR and author of 'Blood and Honour: Britain's Far-Right Militants' (2010).

To listen to the discussion, please click here.<

Third Annual Atkin Conference: The New Generation in the Middle East

2011-12-02 10:36:58

On Friday 21st October, ICSR hosted the Third Annual Atkin Conference at King’s College London. Over 200 participants attended the event, entitled The New Generation in the Middle East, including leading policymakers, academics and experts on the Middle East.

The conference took place in a year of unprecedented transformations in the Middle East. The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are changing the region’s political map. Even Israel has witnessed a wave of popular protests.

The aim of this year’s conference was to try and make sense of what has happened in the Middle East in 2011, and to see what will be next. Issues looked at included what role would diasporas play in the ongoing struggles for peace and democracy and assessing how influential traditional media has been and how new media has been effecting change? Activists told us what it felt like to be on the ground? While key policymakers and journalists predicted how the New M

Counter-Insurgency in Helmand and Beyond

2011-11-24 00:00:00

Lt Col Dougie Graham and Ryan Evans discussed how counterinsurgency theory worked in practice in Central Helmand Province. Lt Col Graham analysed his approach as a Battlegroup Commander and Commanding Officer of the Royal Highland Fusiliers grappling with a complex insurgency around Lashkar Gah, the district capital. He explained that any understanding of what is happening in Helmand has to be seen in the context of how operations evolved from 2006 to 2010. He particularly emphasised the centrality of the Afghan National Security Forces and, in particular, the Afghan National Police in ensuring future stability in Afghanistan. Evans provided the perspective of a Human Terrain Team member working with Task Force Helmand. He explained how land tenure disputes, enduring local factional conflicts, and the narcotics industry drive violence in what is a very l

ICSR Book Launch � The End of Terrorism?

2011-11-16 16:59:46

In his new book, Professor Leonard Weinberg, considers not the beginning or origins of terrorism but how groups that use terrorism end. Terrorism as a tactic is unlikely to disappear, however virtually all the groups that employed terrorist violence during the 1960s and 1970s have passed from the scene in one way or another.

Professor Weinberg argues that current violent Islamist groups like their predecessors are bound to bring their operations to an end. Rather than discussing the de-radicalization of individuals the book analyses how terrorist groups are defeated, or defeat themselves.

Professor Weinberg, one of the world's most distinguished scholars of terrorism and political violence, is currently a Senior Research Fellow at ICSR and a visiting Professor at the War Studies Department, King’s College London.