Terrorism Safety and Security

This blog’s purpose is to • Publish items which may be of general interest to both Charles Sturt University’s (CSU’s) terrorism studies students and others who may be interested in terrorism/counter terrorism • Publish items which may be of specific interest to students studying CSU terrorism subjects It should also be of relevance to anyone who has an interest in terrorism, counter terrorism and related subjects such as Human Rights and Torture. This is an open blog so please feel free to send the URL to others who you may know have an interest in terrorism/counter terrorism. Nick O’Brien Associate Professor Counter Terrorism Charles Sturt University Interested in a Distance Learning Graduate Certificate, Diploma or MA in Terrorism, Safety and Security? Check: http://www.csu.edu.au/courses/postgraduate/terrorism_safety_security/ for the CSU course Any views expressed on this blog are those of the author.

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From Brookings

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Nearly 36 million in slavery

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A Pew Report

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Major terrorist attack is ‘inevitable’ as Isis fighters return, say EU officials

EU’s 28 governments are said to be struggling to respond to threat of Islamist fighters coming back from Iraq and Syria

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Report from the International Crisis Group

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Islamic State wants Australians to attack Muslims: terror expert

It’s in the interests of Islamic State for Muslims in Australia to be attacked or for their mosques to be attacked, because doing so would help divide the Australian community. But we should be very clear…

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August edition of CTC Sentinel published

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https://www.fpri.org/docs/haines_-_dirty_bombs_0.pdf

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The first para of the Exec Summary:

"The substantial nuclear security budget cuts proposed by the Obama administration for fiscal  year (FY) 2015, if approved, would slow progress toward preventing the essential ingredients of  nuclear bombs from falling into terrorist hands. Many of the proposed cutbacks are not the result  of completing projects under the four-year effort to secure vulnerable nuclear materials or putting  the mixed oxide (MOX) fuel program for plutonium in cold standby . The drop in funding would  result in real and significant cuts to important ongoing nuclear security programs. Congress  should act to reduce the scale of the proposed cut for nuclear security programs by at least $100 million, and should consider other substantial increases in funding for nonproliferation programs."

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https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/328036/DCDC_GST_5_Secured.pdf

From the UK's Ministry of Defence

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http://file.understandingconflict.org/file/2014/06/IPAC_11_Rethinking_Countering_Extremism.pdf