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World Trade Centre 9/11

Scriptures rarely a significant motivating factor behind violence, say researchers

01 Sep 2020

Many people misunderstand the relationship between religion, scripture and violence, a new book argues. Some people worry that scriptures such as the...

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Children’s fiction on terror is leading a youth ‘write-back’ against post-9/11 paranoia

24 Aug 2020

A wave of children’s fiction which tackles subjects such as suicide terrorism, militant jihadism and counter-terror violence is helping young readers...

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Smartphone rituals

Opinion: FBI backs off from its day in court with Apple this time – but there will be others

30 Mar 2016

Martin Kleppmann (Computer Laboratory) discusses how vulnerable security technologies really are, and how these vulnerabilities could be exploited by...

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Opinion: Confronting the Taliban – an educational encounter

09 Mar 2016

Dr David Gosling (Faculty of Divinity) discusses his time on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, his encounters with the Taliban and why education is...

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Opinion: Why both sides are wrong in the counter-extremism debate

07 Mar 2016

Julian Hargreaves (Centre of Islamic Studies) discusses the Government's Prevent strategy and counter-extremism in Britain.

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Bataclan Paris attacks memorial

Opinion: Governments should turn to academics for advice on radicalisation, religion and security

03 Dec 2015

Tristram Riley-Smith (Department of Politics and International Studies) discusses how universities and academics can add insight and depth to...

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Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

Spiritual violence and the divine revolution of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

29 Oct 2015

In 1879, a young Indian boy arrived in England from Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the state of Bengal, sent by his father to receive a British education...

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Fostering understanding between the Islamic world and the West

07 May 2013

Frankie Martin, MPhil student in the Department of Social Anthropology will speak tonight at the showing of a documentary Journey into America: The...

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Professor David Feldman

'Deporting Abu Qatada: the European Court of Human Rights, and Governments'

12 Jun 2012

He is feared and hated in many parts of the world. Those facts make it less likely that any case against him will be evaluated carefully and...

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1972 Munich Olympic Stadium

The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany

01 May 2010

A new analysis of the Munich Games of 1972 places the event at the very centre of modern German history, as Dr Chris Young explains.

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Fabric of folly - weekly unique visitors

Risk initiatives seek to challenge the stats we’re in

21 Jan 2010

Two different projects which aim to improve our understanding of the nature of, and statistical realities behind, health scares, natural disasters...

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spaghetti network

Clandestine networks: how dangerous are they?

01 Sep 2008

Terrorist groups, guerrilla movements, drug smuggling: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni asks whether examining the structural weaknesses of illicit...

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