scholarly journals Islamic terrorism in Indonesia: Addressing Government Strategies and Muslim Population

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatan Kustana
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
National Agency ◽  
New Members ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Terrorism

<p><em>This paper shows how Terrorism has been emerging in the world, the potency to be spread out in the South-East Asian nations, and how Indonesia could face internal challenges to do counter-terrorism of the false Jihad, with multitrack diplomacy, primarily with Police and National Agency for Combating Terrorism counter-terrorism programs. In the perspective of defense strategy, the issue of terrorism brings several implications (Indonesian White Paper 2008, p. 9). The condition of Indonesian community with low educational levels and low economic income becomes target for terrorist actors to expand the network by developing and recruiting new members. The threat of Islamic terrorism is categorized as a national security threat. The Indonesian Government through its security apparatus still have to work hard to hunt down other terrorists, to undertake preventive efforts to prevent Islamic fundamentalist beliefs not to develop and increased education level and the understanding of Islam more comprehensively.</em></p>

Narrative Misdirection? UK Strategic Communication for Afghanistan and Beyond

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-392
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Cawkwell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Defence Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
Communication Approach ◽  
The Uk

Britain’s war in Afghanistan – specifically its latter stages, where the UK’s role and casualties sustained in the conflict rose dramatically – coincided with the institutional emergence of Ministry of Defence-led ‘Strategic Communication’. This article examines the circumstances through which domestic strategic communication developed within the UK state and the manner in which the ‘narratives’ supporting Britain’s role in Afghanistan were altered, streamlined and ‘securitised’. I argue that securitising the Afghanistan narrative was undertaken with the intention of misdirecting an increasingly sceptical UK public from the failure of certain aspects of UK counter-insurgency strategy – specifically its counter-narcotics and stabilisation efforts – by focusing on counter-terrorism, and of avoiding difficult questions about the UK’s transnational foreign and defence policy outlook vis-à-vis the United States by asserting that Afghanistan was primarily a ‘national security’ issue. I conclude this article by arguing that the UK’s domestic strategic communication approach of emphasising ‘national security interests’ may have created the conditions for institutionalised confusion by reinforcing a narrow, self-interested narrative of Britain’s role in the world that runs counter to its ongoing, ‘transnationalised’ commitments to collective security through the United States and NATO.

scholarly journals Prioritising Training and People-oriented Security Education for Effective Policing in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Chibuzor Chile Nwobueze ◽  
James Okolie-Osemene ◽  
Ndu John Young
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
National Security ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
Monthly Basis ◽  
Security Sector ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Security Education ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

Currently, Nigeria’s security sector needs effective policing considering the spate of insecurity and frustrated relationship between the citizens and the police. Consequently, some officers are seen as dishonest and agents of complicity. Unlike most parts of the world where the people love, support the police, Nigeria still records threats to police-public relations owing to the attitudes of some officers who tarnish the image of the security agency through uncivilised, inhuman and unlawful acts while on duty and beyond. With qualitative data, this paper explores how training and people-oriented security education can enhance effective policing for a more secure Nigeria. This paper argues that police effectiveness should no longer be hinged only on equipping officers for counter-terrorism or establishment of special units to eradicate organised crime, but also on training them on weekly/monthly basis to respond to rapidly emerging threats to national security and trainings on enhancing collaborative police-public relations.

scholarly journals Drug-trafficking as a Non-traditional Security Threat: Emerging Trends and Responses

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Pushpita Das
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Synthetic Drugs ◽  
International Borders ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Criminal Groups ◽  
Traditional Natural ◽  
Natural Drugs

India‟s proximity to two of the world‟s largest producers of opium and synthetic drugs and its large pharmaceutical base has made the country not only a conduit but also a source for drug trafficking. This illegal movement of narcotics and drugs pose significant threats to national security: breach of security of the international borders and the country, money generated by the sale of drugs and narcotics are used for terror funding and criminal groups engaged in drug trafficking develop nexus with terror networks. The trends and patterns of drug trafficking in the country demonstrate that there has been a gradual shift from traditional/natural drugs towards synthetic drugs that are being trafficked and consumed in the country. The paper analyses the steps taken by the State to curb the process and its effectiveness so far.

Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Kurzman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
The United States ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
University Of North Carolina ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Warm Winter ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Terrorism ◽  
The University

On a warm winter day in early 2006, a young man drove through a plaza at the University of North Carolina, trying to kill as many people as possible in the name of Islamic revolution. Terrorism is as simple as driving onto the sidewalk. So why are terrorist attacks so rare in the United States and much of the world? Islamist revolutionaries complain about frequently about Muslims’ unwillingness to engage in militancy, going so far as to call the bulk of the world’s Muslim population “scum.” This chapter introduces data on the prevalence of Islamic terrorism and the risks of overreaction.

scholarly journals Leaderless Jihad

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-101
Author(s):  
Naama Ben Ami
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
The Other ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Terrorism ◽  
Global Terrorism ◽  
The One

Acts of terrorism are committed the world over, driven by religious, political,social, and personal motives. But what causes someone to become a terrorist?Are there profiles that fit them? What can be done to counter terrorism?These and other questions are addressed by Marc Sageman in his book,although it focuses only on what he calls “Global Islamic terrorism.”In his “Preface,” Sageman presents the problem of global terrorism andlays out the topics that each chapter will analyze. In the “Introduction,” heprofiles the terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the son of MuslimPakistani parents who had emigrated to England. We learn of his childhoodand how he grew up, his personality traits, education, and activities. Hisstory is told through his parents, his childhood friends, fellow prisoners, andpeople whom he had kidnapped. These stories portray an ambivalent figure,one who is highly intelligent, polite, and popular on the one hand, yet violent,cold-blooded, and cruel on the other ...

THE ISSUES OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT IN THE WORK OF THE WORLD RUSSIAN PEOPLE'S COUNCIL IN THE 1990-S.

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
Yu.Yu. IERUSALIMSKY ◽  
◽  
A.B. RUDAKOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Nuclear Disarmament ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Nuclear Component ◽  
The One

The article is devoted to the study of such an important aspect of the activities of the World Russian People's Council (until 1995 it was called the World Russian Council) in the 90-s of the 20-th century as a discussion of national security issues and nuclear disarmament. At that time, a number of political and public figures actively called for the nuclear disarmament of Russia. Founded in 1993, the World Russian Council called for the Russian Federation to maintain a reasonable balance between reducing the arms race and fighting for the resumption of detente in international relations, on the one hand, and maintaining a powerful nuclear component of the armed forces of the country, on the other. The resolutions of the World Russian Council and the World Russian People's Council on the problems of the new concepts formation of foreign policy and national security of Russia in the context of NATO's eastward movement are analyzed in the article. It also shows the relationship between the provisions of the WRNS on security and nuclear weapons issues with Chapter VIII of the «Fundamentals of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church».

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