Following the Westgate Mall terror attack in Nairobi, Kenya, the HSC’s senior fellow and radicalisation expert Ghaffar Hussain appeared on Sky News and talked about al-Shabaab’s motives, strategies and recruitment processes. To approach members of the HSC for similar expert ...

Senior Fellow John Slinger published in The Spectator on Russia and the United States’ diplomatic agreement on the international control and subsequent destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons. Amidst the hopefulness and optimism, the answers to this question prove disturbing. We must remember that it might take a disaster even worse than 100,000 dead and the use of WMDs against civilians

HSC Executive Director Julie Lenarz reflects on Foreign Secretary William Hague’s comment on the violent situation in Egypt for the Evening Standard 20th August 2013 “I welcome the Foreign Secretary William Hague’s comment on the situation in Egypt. The military’s overthrow of ...

John Slinger writes in the New Statesman, that much more can be done short of an Iraq-style invasion in Syria. All too often, international events bear out the adage that "history teaches us that history teaches us nothing". Lessons from the shameful response of the international community to other crises must inform our policy on Syria

Executive Director Julie Lenarz published in the Times of Israel on the ongoing misconceptions the West has regarding the civil war in Syria. Two and a half years after the war kicked off in Syria the debate rages on over whether the West should get involved or stay out of the brutal conflict.

Damian Counsell interviews Julie Lenarz, the Executive Director. Their wide-ranging conversation covers her recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan to mark the 25th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s genocidal actions against its people; why the survivors viewed Allied action as a liberation; the surprising ...