Modern Extremism
Vol. 9 No. 1 | 2022 Edition
The footage is grainy. The cacophony of noise pours from the idling helicopters and the columns of police cars, motorcycles, and armored personnel carriers with their engines and blaring sirens. But the scenes are remarkable all the same. They show the city of Banja Luka, the second largest metropolitan area in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), on May 12, 1992. They depict a city under occupation by a regime in the process of orchestrating the first genocide in Europe since the Holocaust.
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Jasmin Mujanović is a political scientist and the author of Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans.
Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs worldwide aim to prevent individuals from engaging
in terrorism. However, such programs vary widely in their approaches, which range from public awareness campaigns aimed at educating populations about the risks of violent extremist ideologies to in-person interventions for individuals who have already been radicalized and, in some instances, engaged in terrorist activities.
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Authors: Elena Savoia, MD, MPH; Michael King Ph.D.; Anna Ekström; Diána Hughes, MA; Adam Baker; Lauren LaBrique, MA.
Do jihadist terror organizations still represent a serious threat? If so, do they pose a serious threat to
the West? The United States and Europe suffered few attacks during the past decade, and yet more jihadist groups are launching more attacks over a larger portion of the world than ever before. They all trace their origins and allegiances to al-Qaeda and its breakaway faction, the Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)...
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Dr. Jytte Klausen is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation at Brandeis University. This essay is adapted from her recent book, Western Jihadism — A Thirty-Year History, published by Oxford University Press in October 2021.
Many experts who track global developments in terrorism over time are familiar with the work of American political scientist David Rapoport. The UCLA professor emeritus is best known for what he dubbed the “wave theory of terrorism.” This comprehensive overview of terrorist movements spanning 150 years posits that there have been four such “waves” — or shifts in motivation, techniques, and outcomes — of terrorist activity since the latter half of the nineteenth century...
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Phil Gurski spent 32 years in Canadian intelligence and is currently Director of the National Security Program at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute. His latest book, The Peaceable Kingdom? A History of Terrorism in Canada from Confederation to the Present, is available at www. borealisthreatandrisk.com.