Julie Lenarz
September 17, 2014
HSC in the Media, Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles
On 16th September, 2014, the HSC’s Executive Director, Julie Lenarz, was asked to comment on the situation in Iraq by the Evening Standard. “We welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement that the government will take whatever steps necessary to confront ISIS. ...
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September 9, 2014
Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles
On 5th September, 20014, the HSC’s Director for Government Relations and Strategic Partnerships, Dr Dwayne Ryan Menezes, was on PMLR’s Westminster Podcast discussing the situation in Iraq.
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August 20, 2014
HSC in the Media, Iraq and Syria
The HSC’s Director for Government Relations and Strategic Partnerships, Dr Dwayne Ryan Menezes, was quoted in Channel News Asia on the subject of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq. British Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned the apparent killing of ...
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August 18, 2014
HSC in the Media, Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles
On 18th August, 20014, the HSC’s Executive Director, Julie Lenarz, was on BBC Radio Drivetime debating Iraq with Chris Nineham of the Stop the War Coalition.
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August 18, 2014
HSC in the Media, Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles
On 18th August 2014, the HSC’s Executive Director, Julie Lenarz, was on LBC discussing the threat posed by ISIS and strategy in Iraq.
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August 16, 2014
HSC in the Media, Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles
Campaigners have marched through the streets of London to protest against recent attacks on Iraqis and Syrians by ISIS militants. Hundreds of people gathered outside BBC Broadcasting House before marching through Oxford Street towards the US Embassy. Demonstrators, led by ...
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August 16, 2014
HSC in the Media, Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles
On 13th August, 2014, the Human Security Centre’s Executive Director, Julie Lenarz, was invited by Channel 4 News to discuss the Yezidi situation in Iraq and the way forward.
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August 15, 2014
HSC in the Media, Iraq and Syria
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, and Advisory Board member of the Human Security Centre, started a petition calling on President Barack Obama, Congress and the international community to destroy ISIS as a fighting force. Watch his interview ...
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Stina Hartikainen
August 10, 2014
Iraq and Syria, The Policy Unit
The deteriorating situation in Syria gives rise to a number of pressing security concerns both in the wider region and elsewhere. The phenomenon of European foreign fighters, predominantly Western nationals travelling to Syria to join the conflict, brings forth complex issues concerning domestic radicalisation and national security.
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Daniel Curwin
July 1, 2014
Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa, The Policy Unit
The active sectarian rivalry and conflict in Iraq – long exploited by successive governments in Bagdad – has reached crisis proportions. Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city and a primary oil centre, was overrun and occupied June 12th 2014 by the Sunni militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) (ISIS) which formerly fought under the al-Qaeda banner. ISIS are making gains on their previous successes in taking large parts of the central city of Fallujah in December 2013
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