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Rachel Briggs

Expertise:

Terrorism and counter-terrorism in the UK and Europe; preventing extremism; corporate security; kidnapping; community tensions; community cohesion; and human security.
 
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Rachel Briggs

Position: Senior Research Fellow, Counter-terrorism and Security

Rachel Briggs has joined RUSI as a Senior Research Fellow in the National Security and Resilience Department. Her research will focus on radicalisation in western societies, and she will be active on a number of projects focused on the prevent policy agenda.

In particular, she will work on a three-year project exploring how experiences in other parts of the world, such as the Middle East and South Asia, may translate into the British context and help to create an international benchmark for academic research.

Rachel Briggs is a freelance researcher, writer and policy advisor working on radicalisation, preventing extremism, community tensions, community cohesion and human security. She combines her work at RUSI with a number of other appointments, including as a Senior Associate at the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo) and a Senior Honorary Research Associate at UCL. She is also part-time Director of the charity, Hostage UK, which is chaired by Terry Waite.

Rachel was formerly Head of International Strategy and Head of the Identity Programme at Demos, and before that ran the Risk and Security Programme at The Foreign Policy Centre. She writes and comments regularly in the press, and has advised a number of companies and Government departments over the past 10 years. She is on the editorial board of the journal Renewal, is a member of the Advisory Board of Wilton Park (an executive agency of the FCO) and is on the Council of the Risk and Security Management Forum.

For an extended list of publications by Rachel Briggs, click here >

 

RUSI articles and analysis by this author

Anatomy of Terror Anatomy of a Terrorist Attack: What the Coroner’s Inquests Revealed about the London Bombings 20 Apr 2011
In this Paper, RUSI analysts consider the implications of the hearings of the Coroner's Inquests into the July 7 Bombings: from their likely effect on the use of intelligence in judicial proceedings to what they revealed about the organisation and behaviour of the suicide bombers.

Tanweek Khan_July 7 Bombers 7 July bombings five years on: Is there still a role for communities in tackling terrorism? 6 Jul 2010
Government policy since 7/7 has placed equal importance on tackling terrorism at the grassroots level. 'Community-based counter-terrorism' might be at the so-called 'soft' end of the security spectrum, but it is the hardest to get right.
Woman walks past Edgware Rd after 77 Place Matters: The Geography of Radicalisation 12 Feb 2010
In recent years it has become clear that radicalisation is tied closer to place than the size of Muslim population. But why do some places lend themselves to the radicalisation process better than others? Rachel Briggs reports.

The Unlikely Counter-terrorists 1 Feb 2003
Though business can never predict terrorist attacks or even stop them from succeeding, evidence shows that it can limit their impact.
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