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Without the AU Transition Mission, the Somali army should prepare to face several hundred additional attacks each year.
Connections between smuggling and other forms of serious organised crime remain largely unverified.
Historically, Canadian police have disproportionately targeted Muslim communities in counter-terrorism efforts, while far-right extremists received comparatively scant scrutiny. Is that changing?
The use of drone strikes raises a host of ethical issues. US military chaplains − the armed forces’ moral conscience − have questions.
Niger’s military government sides with Russia in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing influence in Africa.
The billionaire owner of X (formerly Twitter) has taken aim at Australia’s eSafety Commissioner over being told to remove videos from his site. It’s just the tip of the legal iceberg.
Sydney has seen two stabbing incidents within days of each other. Grim comparisons are inevitable, but what makes them different?
Islamic State has fallen out of the public attention in the UK and Europe but remains active in Africa.
Many people in Yemen and throughout the Middle East believe terror groups are a tool that Western-backed oppressive regimes have long used to maintain power.
The complex task of tackling online terror needs human eyes as well as artificial intelligence.
Convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika yesterday won the right to remain an Australian citizen. So will he go free? And what does this mean for national security?
Israel’s intelligence capacities are considered some of the best in the world – but unlike the US, it does not have a central organization coordinating all intelligence.
It would help African countries to have a common position on the Ukraine war. This should be based on its impact on food and energy security in the continent.
Intelligence reports offer information that can avert threats to national security or promote national interests.
Invading, attacking and killing adversaries abroad can boost the political prospects of leaders doing poorly at home.
Publisher Ernest Moret was detained under terrorism powers for taking part in protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.
Policies that reduce poverty, inequality and socioeconomic insecurity lower the incentive to engage in or tolerate terrorism.
The public inquiry exposes key individual failings while previous findings suggested bad luck was at play. This shows that talking to officers on the ground is vital if lessons are to be learnt.
Australia already has extensive counter-terrorism laws and does not need more. However, the government could more specifically target far-right groups in its list of proscribed organisations.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in North American History, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Research Fellow, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism, George Washington University
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Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
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Professor of International Politics, School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Rwanda
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Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Law, Durham University
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