EICTP Expert Paper: Understanding the Global Jihadist Movement

EICTP Expert Paper: Understanding the Global Jihadist Movement Since 9/11 Western governments have committed multinational multi-billion-dollar efforts and exerted continuous military pressure to counter Islamist terrorist groups. Following such outlay of resources and sacrifice of lives, politicians, policymakers, and pundits have been keen to announce the so-called defeat and demise of transnational terrorist groups such…

Meeting EICTP with Chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan in Vienna

On 9 October 2020, EICTP met with HE Mrs. Safa Mohammed Sekainy Ahmed, Chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan in Vienna, to discuss future cooperation projects and aims within the framework of counter-terrorism and security policy-related measures. In line with the research approach adopted by EICTP, the counselor emphasized the importance…

COVID-19: Is Bioterrorism on the Rise Now?

State of Emergency Against the backdrop of the still ongoing global struggle to tackle the novel COVID-19 pandemic and its various impacts, some terrorist organizations and affiliates already seem to draw their strategic lessons from the destabilizing effects the crisis has revealed. Not only do they study the immense psychological and economic effects of regional…