News
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Book presentation Edwin Bakker and Peter Grol: 'Dutch Jihadists' 30 March 2017
Peter Grol and Edwin Bakker, professor of Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the University, presented their book ‘Dutch Jihadists’ for a large audienc...
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Guest Lecture: Mother of a Foreign Fighter 29 March 2017
On Monday 28 March, Salina Ben Ali visited our University to tell her emotional story. She told about how her 19 year old son was recruited by IS, lef...
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King visits The Hague Security Delta and the Cyber Security Academy 24 March 2017
On 23 March 2017, his Majesty King Willem-Alexander visited The Hague Security Delta: a network in which businesses, knowledge institutions and govern...
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MOOC Terrorism and Counterterrorism launches updated version after three successful years 28 February 2017
The MOOC Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory & Practice was one of the first MOOCs of Leiden University to go live back in September 2013...
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Proposal on refugee crisis management wins student Research Design Conference 23 February 2017
This year Elke Devroe and Moniek Akerboom organized a ‘Research Design Conference’ for students in the course ‘Research Design’ of the Master’s Crisis...
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Europe's first bachelor's programme in security issues 23 February 2017
September 2017 will see the start of the new English-language bachelor's programme in Security Studies in The Hague, developed by the Institute of Sec...
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Working towards a better world together 16 February 2017
Global problems such as diseases of affluence or microplastics in the sea are too complex to be dealt with from a single scientific discipline or by j...
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CSM-Students win role play in course ‘Governance of Crime and Social Disorder’ 14 February 2017
In the CSM-elective ‘Governance of Crime and Social Disorder,’ Dr. Elke Devroe challenges her students to engage in an interactive group role-play on ...
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Unique insight into origin of Hofstad group 24 January 2017
The Hofstad group is known mainly because of Mohammed B., the murderer of Theo van Gogh. PhD candidate Bart Schuurman examined this Dutch jihadist gr...
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New MOOC Security & Safety Challenges in a Globalized World, starting 23 January 2017. 12 January 2017
Security and safety challenges are at the top of the list of the most pressing issues of contemporary society.
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Jelle van Buuren in NRC over cyberaanvallen EU 10 January 2017
Door recente cyberaanvallen op instituties binnen en buiten Europa groeit het vermoeden steeds sterker dat achter de aanvallen wellicht een politieke ...
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ISGA launches Journal of Security and Global Affairs 16 December 2016
The Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) has launched its first own scientific journal. The Journal of Security and Global Affairs (SGA) wi...
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Grant for research on murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands 06 December 2016
’25 years of fatal violence’, a collaboration of dr. Marieke Liem and prof.dr.Lenneke Alink about murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands, has rece...
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Predictive policing wins group presentation in CSM elective Governance of crime and social disorder 02 December 2016
If you know a crime is about to occur, should you be able to prevent it before it has even happened? This was one of the questions that was posed in l...
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Security needs cooperation 18 November 2016
Interdisciplinary cooperation between public and private actors is of vital importance for facing contemporary security and global affairs challenges....