International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence explained

The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
Type:Non-profit
think tank
Founded:January 2008
Location:London

The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR) is a non-profit, non-governmental think tank based in the Department of War Studies at King's College London whose mission is to educate the public and help policymakers and practitioners find solutions to radicalisation and political violence.[1] It obtains some of its funding through the European Union.

The organisation is a partnership of five academic institutions: King's College London, the University of Pennsylvania,[2] the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel), the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy, and Georgetown University.[1]

Since summer 2020, the ISCR is a member of the Global Network on Extremism and Technology together with the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, the George Washington University's Program on Extremism (PoE), the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies' Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) and the Lowy Institute.[3] [4]

Launch and role

ICSR was launched in January 2008 at the First International Conference on Radicalisation and Political Violence in London. During this conference, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith launched the government's new anti-terror initiative.[5]

ICSR conducts independent research and describes its mission as follows:[6]

In addition to undertaking its research, ICSR hosts speakers from around the world. In the past these have included US Senator Chuck Hagel, Vice-President of Colombia Francisco Santos Calderon, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson,[7] Secretary-General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis as well as several prominent terrorism experts and commentators featured as panelists including BBC's Frank Gardner, Olivier Roy, Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation, Richard Dearlove (former head of MI6) and Daniel Benjamin of the Brookings Institution.[8]

Research

A report published by the ICSR in 2023, showed data on the support by children terrorist networks and displayed the potential threats that they possess. The report showed that from 2016 to 2023 in the UK 43 individuals were convicted of committing terrorist offences as a minor, in which 42 of them were boys and the youngest was 13 years old at the time of the offence.[9]

In 2019, Peter R. Neumann told CNN that the ICSR had seen an increase in right-wing terrorist violence and hate crimes in Western countries over the past five years.[10]

The ICSR published a report in 2018 stating that between April 2013 and June 2018, 41,490 international citizens from 80 different countries had joined the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.[11] [12] It also stated that about 25% of the international citizens affiliated to ISIS were women and children.[13] [14]

In August 2017, ICSR published a report on the impact of Turkey's conflict with the PKK on the Syrian Civil War and Iraqi Kurdistan.[15]

In February 2017, the think tank produced an estimate on the Islamic State's financial fortunes.[16] [17] In the same month, ICSR released a report on the Islamic State's doctrine of information warfare.[18] [19]

In October 2016, ICSR published a report on European jihadists and the crime-terror nexus.[20] [21]

In previous years, reports by the ICSR have ranged from the topics such as the narratives of Islamic State defectors,[22] [23] to neo-Nationalist networks.

In addition to reports, the organisation also regularly publishes papers as well as short pieces of analysis, called "ICSR Insights", on their website.[24] Its research fellows often feature as contributors to media pieces.

Governance

The Founding Director of ICSR is Prof. Peter R. Neumann; the Director is Dr. Shiraz Maher.

The organisation's governance structure includes a board of trustees. Current members of the board include:

Further, ICSR is affiliated with TRENDS Research and Advisory, the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies in Islamabad, and the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.

Controversies

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://icsr.info/about-us-2/ icsr.info: "About Us"
  2. University of Pennsylvania, ISTAR Preparedness Projects http://www.istar.upenn.edu/research/preparedness.html
  3. Web site: GNET PRIF . 2024-09-07 . www.prif.org.
  4. Web site: Projects - Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) PRIF . 2024-10-04 . www.prif.org.
  5. http://press.homeoffice.gov.uk/Speeches/sp-hs-terrorism-keynote-jan-08 Speech by the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, at the First International Conference on Radicalisation and Political Violence
  6. Web site: ICSR Small Wars Journal . 2024-08-18 . smallwarsjournal.com . en.
  7. Web site: Countering Radicalisation and Political Violence . 2024-10-04 . ICSR.
  8. Web site: 2008-01-17 . First International Conference on Radicalisation and Political Violence . 2024-08-20 . ICSR . en-GB.
  9. Web site: 2023-11-15 . New report shines a light on the scope and scale of teenage terrorism offenders for the first time . 2024-09-22 . University of Southampton.
  10. Web site: 2019-03-19 . European intelligence services see far-right extremism as growing threat . 2024-09-25 . France 24 . en.
  11. News: 2019-02-15 . Shamima Begum: How do countries deal with people returning from IS? . 2024-09-13 . en-GB.
  12. Web site: From Daesh to ‘Diaspora’: Tracing the Women and Minors of Islamic State . 2024-10-04 . ICSR.
  13. Web site: From Daesh to ‘Diaspora’: Tracing the Women and Minors of Islamic State . 2024-10-04 . ICSR.
  14. Web site: Thousands of women and children are returning from ISIS . 2024-10-04 . Axios.com.
  15. Web site: War of Shadows: How Turkey’s Conflict with the PKK Shapes the Syrian Civil War and Iraqi Kurdistan . 2024-10-04 . ICSR.
  16. Web site: Caliphate in Decline: An Estimate of Islamic State’s Financial Fortunes . 2024-10-04 . ICSR.
  17. Web site: Caliphate in Decline: An Estimate of Islamic State's Financial Fortunes START.umd.edu . 2024-08-24 . www.start.umd.edu.
  18. Web site: Media Jihad: The Islamic State’s Doctrine for Information Warfare . 2024-10-04 . ICSR.
  19. Web site: Media Jihad: The Islamic State's Doctrine for Information Warfare . 2024-08-24 . radicalisationresearch.org . en-GB.
  20. Web site: 2016-10-11 . Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus . 2024-08-29 . ICSR . en-GB.
  21. Web site: Hummel . Kristina . 2017-10-18 . Crime as Jihad: Developments in the Crime-Terror Nexus in Europe . 2024-08-29 . Combating Terrorism Center at West Point . en-US.
  22. Web site: Victims, Perpetrators, Assets: The Narratives of Islamic State Defectors . 2024-10-04 . ICSR.
  23. News: Malik . Shiv . 2015-09-21 . Protect Isis defectors, western governments urged . 2024-08-29 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  24. Web site: Insight - ICSR. ICSR. en-US. 2017-08-10.
  25. https://members.parliament.uk/member/4708/registeredinterests
  26. Web site: Governance . 2024-08-07 . ICSR . en-GB.
  27. [NRC Handelsblad]
  28. https://twitter.com/MusaCerantonio/status/456593569252249601/photo/1/large twitter

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