Displacement and Transition Risks
Refugees often don’t have choices in the series of difficult transitions they make. Physical transitions across borders are fraught with danger, but also require…
Transitions
Communicating across cultures
Paul Taylor writes about the difficulties of communicating across cultures, and why these matter. From small talk to empathising, he outlines some of the…
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…
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…
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…
CSR, Issue 7: Transitions
The latest issue of CREST Security Review (CSR) is out today, focusing on ‘transitions’. From helping extremists reintegrate back into society, to looking at…