EICTP participated on 19 October 2023 in the renowned International Security Forum Bonn, which has a longstanding tradition of serving as a prominent platform for convening esteemed international experts and practitioners in the fields of security and foreign policy. This forum provides a unique opportunity for in-depth discussions on the future of transatlantic relations and…
On 25th October 2023, EICTP Director of Research, Dr Florian Hartleb participated in a round table discussion at the Federal Chancellery of Austria. On behalf of EICTP, Dr Hartleb talked about the new trends in terrorism, its internationalization and virtualization.
On October 23rd, EICTP participated in the annual Vienna Forum. Since 2021, on the initiative of Federal Minister Susanne Raab, during this annual Forum there has been a deepening of cooperation and collaboration between several European states in the field of preventing extremism in the context of integration. Thematically, cooperation focuses on different forms of…
On October 17th, EICTP visited the Budapest-based Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Hungary. Founded in 1996, the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) is an educational institute and research centre devoted to developing new approaches and embracing external sources for innovative solutions and ideas for today’s most pressing societal task. MCC, as a private educational foundation, offers…
A new master program on Counter Terrorism, CVE & Intelligence at the University of Krems, designed and led by EICTP senior researcher Dr Stockhammer, was inaugurated on October 6th under the presence of prominent state actors and EICTP’s leadership. Among others, Minister of the Interior Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) and Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, Head of the Directorate…
On October 9th, EICTP’s Routledge Handbook of Transnational Terrorism was presented at the King’s College in London by renowned international terror expert Peter Neumann. Edited by EICTP senior researcher Nicolas Stockhammer, this handbook provides contributions by some of the world-leading experts in the field on recent phenomena and trends in transnational terrorism. Based on EICTP’s…
From September 10th to 12th, just days before the Hamas attack, the World Summit on Counter-Terrorism was held at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel. Already at the world’s leading specialist event, organized by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), the imminent danger of war was invoked as a threat to Israel. Especially interesting for EICTP,…
On August 30, EICTP President Herbert Scheibner discussed current developments in terrorism with Austrias Minister of the Interior Gerald Karner and various experts.
On July 12, EICTP presented its research project entitled “Between Civil Disobedience and Militancy. The Radical Climate Change Movement and its Extremist Potential” in Berlin. In this research project, seven renowned extremism researchers from Germany, a recognized expert from the United Kingdom, and an Austrian editor explored whether the climate protection movement has a potential…
together with Paul Schliefsteiner: Jihadist Terror with a Fatal Outcome. A comparative case study on attacks in Austria and Germany, in: SIAK-Journal. Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis, Security Academy (SIAK) at the Austrian Ministry of the Interior, International Edition, 2023, pp. 49-67. The number of jihadist-motivated terror attacks with a fatal outcome…
Dr. Florian Hartleb, together with Dr. Paul Schliefsteiner and Dr. Christoph Schiebel, has published an article on “Interrelation and Dynamics of “Querdenker” Protest-Movement the “Reichsbürger” in Germany and Austria”. Abstract: Like most other countries Germany and Austria attempted to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic by taking unprecedented measures restricting public…
Article by Florian Hartleb on the rise of right-wing extremism in Estonia in the Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung (ZREX), 2023 (double-blind peer reviewed) It is not only because of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine that it is worth looking at the Baltic states, especially Estonia. The rise of right-wing extremism can…