Press Releases

At the end of 2010 a series of demonstrations started which shook the Arab world from Iraq to Morocco – a phenomenon commonly known as the “Arab Spring”. Beginning as a series of desperate protests against sudden escalations in food and energy prices, by the beginning of 2011, the uprisings...

To Their Excellencies Heads of State or Government, One of the biggest problems faced by the international policy community in countering violent extremism is the lack of consistency in the understanding of the issue and approach to addressing it. This lack of consistency is clearly evident in many definitions of...

Radical is the intensely personal account of a journey into – and out of – religious extremism. ‘The UK’s answer to the autobiography of Malcolm X…An engrossing, explosive memoir’ Riz Ahmed, actor, Four Lions ‘This book is the account of a redemptive journey through innocence, bigotry, hardline radicalism and beyond...

On Sunday 7 April 2013, just days before the creation of the new Al-Qaeda entity, “Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham”, a group associated with Al-Qaeda posted an online video. The footage shows Al- Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, addressing the global Jihadist community, insisting that the unity of the “Muslim...

The recent international intervention in Mali, led by France, was intended to thwart the al-Qaeda franchise, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and its allies. This intervention, coupled with the recent terrorist attack on a gas facility (Amenas) in Algeria, has cast the previously under-played Salafi-Jihadist insurgency in the Sahel-Saharan...