The British government’s Prevent Duty puts an obligation on specified public sectors to “keep people from being drawn into terrorism”. policy has been a point of contention within the discourse, but interview data shows that there is grudging consent for policing amongst civilians implementing it. This article explores how this manufactured and what tells us about changing nature counter-terror...

The article identifies some important reasons why terrorism conflicts tend to go into long-lasting deadlocks. Insurgents tend to use terrorism only as a last resort when no other efficient weapons are available. This indicates a severe imbalance of power between the two parts, which makes it impossible to reach a fair compromise by negotiation. The violence of terrorism and counter-terrorism ha...

The potential for catastrophic cyber attacks that can cripple the operations of critical infrastructures of nations is worrying. The consequences of cyber attack to the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are wide, resulting in potentially catastrophic damages and disruption. This paper proposes for the Critical National Information Infrastructure (CNII) organizations to co...

In this paper we explore the potential of using sales of grocery items data for early detection of epidemiological outbreaks and bio-terrorism attacks. These data are of special importance, as they are illustrative of non-symptom specific data that are expected to arrive earlier than medical data commonly used for such purposes. We explore the characteristics of such data and create a detection...

Since the 2001 terror attacks in the United States, counter-terrorism strategies have become a security priority for many nations. More recently, the upsurge of ‘home-grown’ extremists and those returning home from foreign conflicts represents a significant risk to public safety. Unfortunately, the pre-identification of would-be terrorists is an extremely difficult task for law enforcement, esp...