Disengagement: Lessons from Cults and Sectarian Groups
Suzanne Newcombe looks at cults and the reasons why people both leave and stay. Violent extremist ideologies, particularly those associated with ‘Islamic terrorism’, cause…
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Transitions in negotiation – from crisis to success
An upset father barricades his daughter and himself inside the family home. He’s threatening to take her life and his own. How do you…
Reintegrating Extremists: ‘Deradicalisation’ and Desistance
Sarah Marsden writes for us on programmes that seek to help extremists make the transition from violent groups back into society. Highlighting the difficulties…
How messing with employee pensions can backfire on companies
Rosalind Searle, University of Glasgow and Charis Rice, Coventry University explain how messing with employee pensions can backfire on companies. With pension funds in…
Russian Influence And Interference On Twitter Following The 2017 UK Terrorist Attacks
Following the UK terror attacks in 2017, there was a systematic level of influence and interference by Russian-linked social media accounts trying to engineer…
Mindmap: What sources mean when they say “I Don’t Know”
When a source responds to a question with either ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t remember’, that may well be a legitimate response. However,…
Intelligence ethics: not an oxymoron
Applying intelligence and security activities to ethical concepts of the ‘Just War’ tradition. All professions have codes of ethics, often incorporated into legal regulation….
From extremist to democratic citizens
Tina Wilchen Christensen discusses a Swedish programme that helps to re-socialise extremists to become democratic citizens Leaving an extremist environment is difficult. Some individuals…
A to Z of Decision Making
From Anchoring to Zero-Sum Games, Dr Nicola Power gives us the A to Z of decision making. If you’re new to research on decision…
How does a smuggler behave?
A study on smuggling has disproved the myth that it is easy to spot smugglers by their evasive nonverbal behaviour. A disappointing finding? Not…
Communication error handling in suspect interviews and crisis negotiations
We don’t always make the correct decisions. Miriam Oostinga draws on her research in interviews and crisis negotiations to show us how we can…
Social Engineering: From thoughts to awareness
From persuading you to tip more, to clicking on phishing emails; we are more vulnerable to social engineering than we think… Would you give…