News
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Lawyers' risks: crown witness cases and extra secure communication tools 11 April 2024
How can we guarantee the safety of the crown witness scheme for both crown witnesses and lawyers? How can we ensure that online conversations between ...
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Surprising results of research on counterterrorism: ‘Assumptions surrounding Trump may be wrong’ 27 March 2024
It was pouring rain when Alexander Gallo received his diploma from West Point Military Academy. A bad sign, people said back then. It was June 2001, t...
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‘The Netherlands should also consider the possibility of direct confrontation with Russia’ 19 February 2024
There is a real chance of war closer to home, political and military leaders in Europe have warned. Some in the Netherlands are calling for a war econ...
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Firearms incidents in the EU tracked in real-time in online database 15 February 2024
Leiden criminologists have co-developed an artificial intelligence technology that tracks the nature and extent of firearm violence in the European Un...
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‘Handboeken Veiligheid’ are well known: 'Very special that this series has been running for almost 25 years' 15 November 2023
For almost 25 years, ‘de Handboeken Veiligheid’ have been a phenomenon. Who does not have a copy on their bookshelf? In 2024, the series will be celeb...
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Funding for project on open-source intelligence activists and Russia's war against Ukraine 27 July 2023
Damien van Puyvelde has received funding (over 47.000 euro) from a new Research Council pilot for his study 'Open-source research and the war in Ukrai...
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Retirement is not an option for ‘an old warhorse’ like Osinga 04 July 2023
He has had to accept early retirement due to his military profession, or ‘FLO’ (Functioneel Leeftijdsontslag) as it is more commonly referred to withi...
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Wagner mutiny: social media a source of information for intelligence services 27 June 2023
Many people were using social media to follow last weekend’s march on Moscow by the Wagner mercenaries. And they weren’t the only ones: intelligence s...
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1K Z1E J3 bench placed on Wijnhaven Rooftop Garden: ‘Don't be afraid to start a conversation’ 12 June 2023
'Een goed gesprek begint met iemand écht zien’ (A good conversation starts with truly seeing someone). That text is written on a plaque that was screw...
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Refugee crisis one of many challenges for security region: 'We desperately need good people' 30 May 2023
During the second lecture in the series of three on the Dutch crisis management system, the refugee crisis takes centre stage. Hans Zuidijk, director ...
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Debunking myths about the secret services 23 May 2023
In her book ‘Diensten met geheimen’ (‘services with secrets’), Willemijn Aerdts uses true stories to cast light on the operating methods of the Dutch...
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Helen Duffy about Abu Zubaydah who remains unlawfully detained in Guantánamo Bay 04 May 2023
In 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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As an organisation, how do you manage a crisis? 14 April 2023
How 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 forgotten 13 April 2023
The 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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The spy elephant in the room. Inaugural lecture by Dennis Broeders on the tangled web of cyber espionage 27 March 2023
Secret services are engaging in increasingly extreme forms of cyber espionage. But nobody talks about this. Dennis Broeders knows why and is trying to...