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Building a Strong Foundation for Protecting Vital Services
By Agnieszka Wierzbicka, Department of Cyber Security at the Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs
Over the past 10 years, information and communications technologies (ICTs) have…
Reducing Risk
The Czech Republic responds to growing threats
By Veronika Netolická and Martin Konečný
Photos by Reuters
Damage to the Czech Republic’s critical information infrastructure (CII) has the potential to impact national security by…
Duty Bound
International Law and Maritime Migration
By Melina Lito Photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In 2015, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that the number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea…
Mitigating Mayhem
Nations must address the challenges posed by global population trends
Rapid population growth, especially in the developing world, will likely increase and exacerbate global security challenges such as civil wars, ethnic violence,…
Europe’s Enduring Migration Crisis
Seeking answers to evolving dilemmas
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou, president, Migration Policy Institute Europe, and Caitlin Katsiaficas, research assistant
Three years after the latest European migration crisis erupted with a spike in…
Sharing the Responsibility
Refugee situations require international solutions
By Katharina Lumpp, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Germany
Photos by UNHCR
The thousands of refugees seeking protection in Europe during 2015…
Integration comes of Age
New policies promote the inclusion of immigrants
By Martin Hofmann photos by reuters
Integration started to attract an increasing amount of attention during the second half of the 1990s, often based on the assumption that in some ways…
Excluded
A sense of nonbelonging fuels violent radicalization in the United Kingdom
By Lorand Bodo, Ridgeway Information
Thus far, most of the models and theories attempting to explain how and why individuals become radicalized tend to view…
What About the Women
The importance of gender perspectives in countering violent extremism
BY Julie Arostegui LeMaster, J.D.
Human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment are often considered secondary issues to be dealt with once a state or region has…
The Foreign Fighter Factor
How terror groups exert influence in the North Caucasus
By Darya Nicolson
In September 2014, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2178 concerning the “acute and growing” threat posed by foreign terrorist…