What are the barriers to reporting people suspected of violent extremism?
A vital element of counter-terrorism strategy is encouraging people to report suspected terrorists. But it isn’t easy to do this if it’s someone you…
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Covert Networks
How can social network analysis help with the study of terrorist and criminal networks? Martin Everett researches covert, or dark, networks and presents an…
Trust and Insider Threat: ensuring we don’t look back – or forward – in anger
How can networked trust in organisations, both between employees and processes be maintained, especially during times of great change? Rosalind Searle and Charis Rice…
Extremist Prose as Networks
Stephane Baele, Katharine Boyd, and Travis Coan look at using Co-occurrence Networks to Monitor Extremist Communications A well-developed body of research demonstrates that network…
What is rapport, and how can you increase it?
Kate Muir looks at rapport: what is it and how can we increase it? Have you ever met someone and just immediately ‘clicked’ with…
Islamic State messaging on Telegram
Mia Bloom explains how Islamic State use the messaging service Telegram A persistent feature of terrorism is communicating a message. Whether broadcast in ancient…
Community Reporting – the key to defeating terrorism?
How do people feel about reporting on their friends & family members? Michele Grossman and Paul Thomas plan to find out The recent spate…
Things that spread: Epidemics on networks
Dr Thilo Gross discusses how epidemics spread on networks and why these insights are starting to make a real impact in an ever more…
Using networks to predict the impact of ‘bad apples’ on team performance
Jeroen De Jong explains how can we predict the impact of ‘bad apples’ on team performance. In the past few decades, organisations have increasingly…
Leadership is a Social Network: Implications for Security
Dorothy Carter and Cynthia Maupin highlight the security implications of leadership networks. It can take years to understand why and how certain individuals associated…
Can female participation in political violence lead to social progress? – a case study from Germany
What role can women play in terrorist groups, how might that be reported and can it help pave the way for women in other…
Predicting and preparing for the failure of complex systems
Christos Ellinas looks at how a co-ordinated event could single-handedly disrupt the operation of a complex system. Can Kim Kardashian’s photo break the Internet?…