- May302018ICSR Team
From Battlefield to Ballot Box: Contextualising the Rise and Evolution of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. Following the Iraqi elections on 12 May…
- Mar092018ICSR Team
Challenging Hate: Counter-speech Practices in Europe
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. CONTEXT In recent years, there has been an…
- Dec072017ICSR Team
Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation that Lead to Terrorism: Ideas, Recommendations, and Good Practices from the OSCE Region
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Read on for the Executive Summary. There is practically no country in the OSCE…
- Aug082017ICSR Team
War of Shadows: How Turkey’s Conflict with the PKK Shapes the Syrian Civil War and Iraqi Kurdistan
Read moreBy John Holland-McCowan The full report can be accessed here Key Findings • With Syria and Iraq in flames, Turkey’s…
- Feb172017ICSR Team
Caliphate in Decline: An Estimate of Islamic State’s Financial Fortunes
Read moreThe full report can be accessed here. Key Findings • Islamic State’s most significant sources of revenue are closely tied to…
- Feb132017ICSR Team
Media Jihad: The Islamic State’s Doctrine for Information Warfare
Read moreBy Charlie Winter To read the full report, click here Context Weeks after its capture of Mosul in 2014, the Islamic…
- Oct112016ICSR Team
Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus
Read moreThe full report is available here The presence of former criminals in terrorist groups is neither new nor unprecedented. But with…
- Apr212016ICSR Team
Pain, Confusion, Anger, and Shame: The Stories of Islamic State Families
Read moreExecutive Summary To read the paper in full, please click here. • For every jihadist that has traveled to Syria, Libya,…
- Oct122015ICSR Team
Victims, Perpetrators, Assets: The Narratives of Islamic State Defectors
Read moreVictims, Perpetrators, Assets: The Narratives of Islamic State Defectors The full report can be downloaded HERE. Much has been written about…
- Jun022015ICSR Team
‘Till Martyrdom Do Us Part’ Gender and the ISIS Phenomenon
Read more‘Till Martyrdom Do Us Part’ Gender and the ISIS Phenomenon explores the phenomenon of Western females travelling to Syria and…
- Dec102014ICSR Team
ICSR and BBC Publish Global Survey of Jihadist Violence
Read moreThe full report is available here. The product of a unique and powerful collaboration, ICSR and the BBC have just…
- Apr222014ICSR Team
- Jun192013ICSR Team
Talking to the Taliban: Hope over History?
Read moreA new report by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and the New America Foundation provides a…
- Mar282013ICSR Team
Who Matters Online: Measuring influence, Evaluating Content and Countering Violent Extremism in Online Social Networks
Read moreThrough the analysis of thousands of Twitter accounts following prominent white nationalists and anarchists, ICSR’s latest report —Who Matters Online:…
- Mar142013ICSR Team
A Neo-Nationalist Network: The English Defence League and Europe’s Counter-Jihad Movement
Read moreThe English Defence League (EDL) and its European allies are building a pan-European far-right network. This is one of the…
- Dec122012ICSR Team
Countering Radicalization in Europe
Read moreBased on extensive fieldwork in Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway, ICSR’s latest report – Countering Radicalization in Europe –…
- Nov212012ICSR Team
Lights, Camera, Jihad: al-Shabaab’s Western Media Strategy
Read moreIn recent years, dozens of young Muslims from Britain, Europe and North America have gone to Somalia to fight with…
- Sep112011ICSR Team
As American As Apple Pie: How Anwar al-Awlaki Became the Face of Western Jihad
Read moreICSR is pleased to announce the release of its newest report, As American As Apple Pie: How Anwar al-Awlaki Became the…
- Nov122010ICSR Team
Return of the Militants: Violent Dissident Republicanism
Read moreThe danger posed by groups such as the Real IRA and Continuity IRA is now at its greatest level in…
- Aug192010ICSR Team
Prisons and Terrorism: Radicalisation and De-radicalisation in 15 Countries
Read moreAt the Peace and Security Summit in New York, ICSR launched its latest report, ‘Prisons and Terrorism: Radicalisation and De-radicalisation…
- Mar092010ICSR Team
The Challenge of Online Radicalisation: A Strategy for Action
Read morePolitical extremists and terrorists are increasingly using the internet as an instrument for radicalisation and recruitment. What can be done…
- Oct012008ICSR Team
Recruitment and Mobilisation for the Islamist Militant Movement in Europe
Read moreIn late 2006, the European Commission charged one of ICSR’s partners, King’s College London, with conducting an in-depth study of…