The Human Security Centre (HSC) stands in solidarity with the people of France following the brutal attacks in Paris on Friday.
Read More »TV interview: HSC Executive Director discusses use of child soldiers by ISIS
Julie Lenarz appeared on ZDF's Auslandsjournal and analysed the use of child soldiers by ISIS.
Read More »War against IS – Erdogan’s smokescreen for crushing Kurdish opposition at home and abroad
The US and its coalition should look hard as its position in siding with an ally that fears a Kurdish State more than an Islamic one.
Read More »HSC Executive Director quoted in The Daily Mail
Looking into the camera, a baby-faced boy, no older than three years old, holds a teddy bear in left hand and a knife in his right. The child, who is not even old enough to start school, then appears to ...
Read More »HSC Executive Director quoted in The Independent
A video has emerged of Jeremy Corbyn equating the actions of Isis with those of the US military, and saying that “some of what they have done is quite appalling”, which was described as “paralysis-inducing moral relativism of the worst ...
Read More »Overcoming A Lack of Central Authority Must Be Libya’s First Step in the Fight Against ISIL
Governmental weakness not only threatens the security of Libya, but also the security of Europe due to Libya’s proximity across the Mediterranean.
Read More »A Year After Mosul
Last year’s rout of the Iraqi Army in the northern city of Mosul by ISIS represented the nadir of the post-2003 Iraqi state. But if the country’s long-term prospects have brightened noticeably since the dark summer of 2014, its path to that future is still filled with uncertainty.
Read More »New and Improved NATO Deterrence: Prelude to a New Geopolitical Balance?
We should hope these new challenges in Ukraine and in the south with ISIS will strengthen the alliance once more for the future – a future with a potentially bigger challenge involving the economic and military rise of China.
Read More »International system insufficient to tackle terrorist fighters
The present state of international law is insufficient to effectively tackle terrorists.
Read More »Homegrown terrorist attacks: is Europe at a higher risk than the US?
More foreign fighters from the UK (500-600), France (1200), Germany (500) and even small European states such as Sweden (150-180) and Denmark (100-150) than the US (100).
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