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Research grant awarded to Daan Weggemans, Katharina Krüsselmann, Tessa Ubels and Marieke Liem 30 June 2020
With this grant the researchers seek to shed light on the factors which play a role in transmitting jihadist ideas, and explore possible ways to mitig...
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Career foreign fighters fuelling conflicts 02 June 2020
Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn, researcher and lecturer at ISGA, was interviewed by Deutsche Welle (DW) on the topic of career foreign fighters. This i...
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Scholarship 'Integrated Learning' for Daan Weggemans 27 May 2020
At the beginning of March 2020, the Dutch Taskforce for Applied Research (SIA) awarded Daan Weggemans of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs ...
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Canadian grant for research on terrorism 29 April 2020
At the end of March, the ‘Community Resilience Fund’, a programme of the Canadian federal government, approved a research grant for Dr. Bart Schuurman...
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How Charles Darwin can help us understand terrorism 02 March 2020
In the past decades terrorists have regularly surprised us with unexpected and spectacular attacks, such as the one on the World Trade Centre in New Y...
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De Roy van Zuijdewijn gave a speech during Meeting of the Global Coalition against Daesh (IS) 30 January 2020
Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn was invited to give the subject matter expert speech during the plenary meeting of the working groups of the Global Coal...
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Summer school on extremism gives insight into theory and practice 26 August 2019
Every summer, Leiden University is the setting of dozens of summer schools in which professionals and students can receive extra training on a specifi...
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Bart Schuurman receives Veni Grant: Who do not become terrorists? 18 July 2019
Bart Schuurman, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs in The Hague, has received a Veni grant which will allow him to co...
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Bart Schuurman on the CPL Summer Programme “Preventing Violent Extremism” 15 May 2019
This August, the second edition of the Advanced Summer Programme "Preventing, Detecting, and Responding to the Violent Extremist Threat" will be held....
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Policies on returning foreign fighters 11 April 2019
European countries struggling how to deal with the issue of returning foreign fighters, women and children from the Caliphate
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Podcast: studying far-right extremism 04 March 2019
PhD-student Nikki Sterkenburg studies far-right extremist groups. But how does she get in touch with these groups? And what do you do if you stumble u...
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Meet researcher Daan Weggemans 05 December 2018
Scientists of the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs research completely different subject, among which terrorism, cybercrime and migration. In ...