The safety of Europeans and the security of Europe in 2020 will be marked by four trends in terrorism: the resurgence of ISIS in the Middle East along with the increased risk of terrorist attacks, returning foreign fighters and jihadists facing...
"'Was it embarrassing? Absolutely,' said Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project. 'But was it a security threat to the Olympics and its participants? Absolutely not.'
'They’ve done a fairly good job at making sure that everyone at the Games was safe,' he said."
The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a new report today, Civilian Counterterrorism Forces and the Fight Against Extremism – A Review of Nigeria, Somalia, and Burkina Faso. Local terrorist affiliates of al-Qaeda and ISIS have subjected sub...
On April 26, 2022, the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, in cooperation with the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), hosted the event "Terrorist Attacks in Paris and Brussels: What has changed in the European Security?" CEP Senior Advisor Lucinda Creighton moderated the panel discussion, which included CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson.
The security situation in Africa’s Sahel region continues to deteriorate. In January 2020, the U.N. envoy to West Africa reported that terrorist attacks have increased fivefold in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger since 2016. In 2019 alone, there were...
CEP today released the report, European Responses to Terror, a detailed examination of European government policy responses to acts of political and religious violence from the end of World War II to the present.
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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