Tom Keatinge, Director of RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime, and David Carlisle, Associate Fellow, spoke at the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Terrorism. They presented the findings of their paper (authored with RUSI Research Analyst Florence Keen), commissioned by the Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs.
Tom Keatinge and Florence Keen
This paper focuses on the narrow issue of terrorist financing enabled by social media, particularly those forms that present identified terrorist-finance risks, including networking sites, content-hosting services, crowdfunding services and encrypted communications services.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, The Global Research Network on Terrorism and Technology, Other Publications, Terrorism
Deborah Housen-Couriel, Boaz Ganor, Uri Ben Yaakov, Stevie Weinberg and Dafne Beri
This paper provides an overview of the International Cyber Terrorism Regulation Project, an online resource consisting of a compilation of online regulatory resources in the field of counterterrorism, and an analytical framework for their use. The project is funded by the Global Research Network on Terrorism and Technology.
Tags: Cyber, The Global Research Network on Terrorism and Technology, Other Publications, Terrorism
Alastair Reed, Joe Whittaker, Fabio Votta and Seán Looney
This paper assesses whether social media platforms’ personalisation algorithms promote extremist material, finding evidence that only one platform studied – YouTube – prioritises extremist material by the recommender system.
Tags: The Global Research Network on Terrorism and Technology, Other Publications, Technology, Terrorism
Helena Wood
The launch of the first annual report of the UK’s Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision signals a bold step forward for UK anti-money laundering supervision, but many questions about the wider government supervision strategy remain unanswered.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK, Europe
Anton Moiseienko and Kayla Izenman
Regulating virtual currency businesses in order to prevent money laundering is not easy. But it can be done.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, AML/CTF, Global Security Issues, Information, Intelligence, International Institutions, Financial Crime 2.0
Mark Rowley and Raffaello Pantucci
Daesh, Al-Qa’ida and other terrorist organisations may appear to be in current retreat. But rather than being eradicated, they have scattered. The violent extremism they have spawned has not entirely disappeared and understanding how it might evolve is going to be a central preoccupation for security planners.
Tags: International Security Studies, National Security, Terrorism
Andrew Glazzard
Andrew Glazzard reviews Jihadi Culture: The Art and Social Practices of Militant Islamists edited by Thomas Hegghammer.
Tags: RUSI Journal, Art, Culture and Literature, Terrorism
Tom Keatinge and Florence Keen
Social media has attracted scrutiny as a tool for promoting extremism. Its power to support terrorist financing requires equal attention.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, RUSI Newsbrief, Technology, Terrorism
Mungo Melvin
Mungo Melvin reviews 2020: World of War, by Paul Cornish and Kingsley Donaldson.
Tags: RUSI Journal, Defence Policy, Global Security Issues, National Security, Terrorism, UK Defence
Terrorism
RUSI analysts look ahead at the issues affecting defence and security in 2015.
Aerospace, Global Security Issues, Intelligence, Organised Crime, Terrorism, UK Defence
This conference will explore the nature of the Information Age and its implications for conflict and the conduct of warfare,
Tags: Cyber, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project, Military Sciences
This year RUSI will convene a major conference entitled The Future of Policing in the Digital Age, bringing together policy makers and senior police officers with academic and industry experts.
Tags: Cyber, Policing and Security, Terrorism and Conflict, Future UK Cyber Security Strategy Project, UK Defence Policy, UK, Domestic Security, Risk and Resilience, Organised Crime, Organised Crime, Resilience, Technology
Dr Shiraz Maher will explore the ideology followed by the most destructive terrorist groups of the modern age.
Tags: Tackling Extremism, Terrorism and Conflict, The decade after 9/11, International Security Studies, Terrorism, The War on Terror, Global Security Issues, Lone-Actor Terrorism, Terrorism, Middle East and North Africa
An Increasingly Volatile International Environment Opens New Fronts for European Navies
Greater Europe and the Future of Global Order
In the Spotlight: Britain’s Impending Defence Procurement Review