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Rutger Leukfeldt appointed Chair in Governing Cybercrime shared by two faculties: 'You have to do this together'15 June 2023Rutger Leukfeldt has been appointed endowed Professor of Governing Cybercrime at the faculties of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) and Leiden Law ...
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Debunking myths about the secret services23 May 2023In 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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Maartje van der Woude receives NWO grant for research on ethno-racial profiling22 May 2023Maartje van der Woude, (Professor of Law & Society, Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University) has received an NWO research grant. This year, 60 of...
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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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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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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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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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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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‘Radicalisation is the logical consequence of how we live together’31 January 2023With radicalisation, most people will think of individuals who carry out terrorist attacks as part of a certain ideology. Professor of Radicalisation ...
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Director of the MIVD General Swillens visits ISGA to talk about intelligence cooperation11 January 2023On 15 December, Director of the MIVD General Jan Swillens, visited the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) to give a lecture on internatio...
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Over 3 million euros in funding for Surveillance & Protection research project28 September 2022A research team from the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) has received over 3 million euros in funding from the Knowledge Centre Survei...