On Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron unfurled his Government’s five-year strategy to combat extremism in the UK. Cameron argued that there are four key reasons that people are drawn to extremist ideology: extremism can …
The Beat AML/CTF laws a safe bet Australia’s financial intelligence agency Austrac has taken legal action against betting giant Tabcorp for noncompliance of anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing laws. Austrac describes non-compliance as a potential …
Over a decade of securitised transnational approaches to combatting terrorist activity and propaganda have shown that such approaches are ineffective on their own. Sometimes, these ‘hard power’ measures can actually damage efforts to roll back …
ISIS appears to be exerting a steadily growing pull in Indonesia, with its appeal now reaching beyond existing extremist groups. It’s successfully presenting itself as a new, dynamic Islamic state that applies Islamic law in …
Below is an extract from ASPI’s publication Gen Y jihadists: preventing radicalisation in Australia, launched yesterday. In 2014, the Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium estimated that as many as 15% of ISIL’s foreign recruits could …