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Helen Duffy about Abu Zubaydah who remains unlawfully detained in Guantánamo Bay04 May 2023In two moving articles, Dutch newspaper Trouw has reported on the lengthy detention of Abu Zubaydah in Guantánamo Bay. Zubaydah was tortured over a pe...
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NWO Open Competition grant for two FGGA researchers02 May 2023Sixty researchers have received a grant of approximately 50,000 Euros during round 3 of the NWO Open Competition SSH-XS pilot programme. Two of them a...
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As an organisation, how do you manage a crisis?14 April 2023How do you manage a crisis? This is what Professor of Crisis Governance Sanneke Kuipers will address in her inaugural lecture. And the lecture will de...
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How the lessons learned from Afghanistan were soon forgotten13 April 2023The mission in Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2010 was a formative experience for Dutch soldiers in which many lessons were learned. But...
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Life after Security Studies: five students share their thoughts about the programme11 April 2023Five students who graduated from the Bachelor Security Studies share their experiences. Where did they end up after graduation? Are they still using t...
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The spy elephant in the room. Inaugural lecture by Dennis Broeders on the tangled web of cyber espionage27 March 2023Secret services are engaging in increasingly extreme forms of cyber espionage. But nobody talks about this. Dennis Broeders knows why and is trying to...
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Publication by Helen Duffy on Global trends in Counter-terrorism and the Implications for Human Rights in Africa13 March 2023
On 8 March 2023 Helen Duffy, Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Leiden, published a monograph on Global Trends in Counter...
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Bart Schermer about attack on citizens' right to demonstrate13 March 2023Media outlets Investico, de Groene Amsterdammer and Trouw reported on the wide-scale collection by the Dutch police of personal data of demonstrators ...
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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’27 February 2023The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers23 February 2023Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applica...
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Data analysis of dark web forums in the fight against child sexual abuse20 February 2023By far the majority of users of child sexual abuse networks (or child porn forums as they are sometimes called) on the dark web do not actively commun...
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A year of war against Ukraine: What now?16 February 2023After a year of war against Ukraine, professors André Gerrits, Antoaneta Dimitrova and Frans Osinga look back at Russian aggression and Western unity ...
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Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between ISGA and Fukushima University13 February 2023Last January Jake Wright and Andrea Bartolucci of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) traveled to Japan and visited some Japanese Inst...
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Two ISGA research projects receive NWO Open Competition grant13 February 2023A total of 21 Leiden researchers have successfully applied for the NWO SGW Open Competition XS. Two of the rewarded projects come from FGGA researcher...
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Daniëlla Dam-de Jong appointed as professor International Sustainable Development Law13 February 2023Starting 1 February 2023, Daniëlla Dam-de Jong has been appointed as professor to the new Chair International Sustainable Development Law at the Groti...