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  1. Beyond the Lone Wolf: New Research on Right-Wing Radicalisation and Lone-Actor Violence

    Beyond the Lone Wolf: New Research on Right-Wing Radicalisation and Lone-Actor Violence

    TERRORISM & POLITICAL VIOLENCE NEXT GENERATION NETWORK

    Imagined Extremist Communities: The Paradox of the Community-Driven Lone-Actor Terrorist Inger Storm Sandboe, University of Oxford This paper introduces the...

  2. Histories of Terrorism Conference

    Histories of Terrorism Conference

    The Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews is hosting a major event in June 2026 on  the Histories of...

  3. AI as an accelerator in terrorism and extremism research

    AI as an accelerator in terrorism and extremism research

    Terrorism and Political Violence Next Generation Network

    The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into digital spaces has reshaped the landscape of terrorism and extremism research. This talk, delivered by...

  4. Uncontrolled: debris reentries and space governance

    Uncontrolled: debris reentries and space governance

    CGLG Research Conversation with Ewan Wright (University of British Columbia)

    At this CGLG Research Conversation, Ewan Wright (University of British Columbia) will share insights from his research on space governance. About once a week, a...

  5. Combatant Experiences in Multi-Ethnic Extremist Groups: Identity and Allegiance in Boko Haram

    Combatant Experiences in Multi-Ethnic Extremist Groups: Identity and Allegiance in Boko Haram

    CSTPV Seminar with Dr Makena Micheni

    The talk explores how groups such as Boko Haram navigate ethnically diverse environments and manage to forge a sense of collective homogeneity, even in the face...

  6. The Kurdistan Regional Government in Russian Foreign Policy

    The Kurdistan Regional Government in Russian Foreign Policy

    MECACS Seminar Series Event with Dr Karzan Omar Ali (University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq)

    Dr Karzan Omar Ali is a lecturer at the University of Sulaimani in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He received his Master's degree in political sciences...

  7. Popular women's representations in Uzbek contemporary cinema

    Popular women's representations in Uzbek contemporary cinema

    MECACS Seminar Series Event - MS Teams

    Popular women's representations in Uzbek contemporary cinema Since independence in 1991, the transformation of gender and sexuality throughout...

  8. Going Mainstream: How Extremists are Taking Over

    Going Mainstream: How Extremists are Taking Over

    CSTPV Online Talk with Julia Ebner

    Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, these groups all belonged on the fringes of the political spectrum. Today, accelerated by a...

  9. ISWS Seminar Series -- 'Peacekeeping in Mali: The Royal Scots Dragoons Experience'

    ISWS Seminar Series -- 'Peacekeeping in Mali: The Royal Scots Dragoons Experience'

    Captain Tom Walpole of the Royal Scots Dragoons speaking on the unit's deployment to Mali to assist UN peacekeeping.

    Captain Tom Walpole of the Royal Scots Dragoons speaking on the unit's deployment to Mali to assist UN peacekeeping.

  10. International Relations in the Middle East: Hegemonic Strategies and Regional Order

    International Relations in the Middle East: Hegemonic Strategies and Regional Order

    MECACS Seminar Series Event

    Ewan is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Alwaleed Centre and Senior Lecture in International Relations. Dr Ewan Stein Ewan Stein is Senior Lecturer in...

  11. City that oil built: narratives of oil in Baku's memorial landscape

    City that oil built: narratives of oil in Baku's memorial landscape

    Dr Leyla Sayfutdinova Social Anthropology University of St Andrews and the Centre for Energy Ethics

    In this talk, Dr Leyla Sayfutdinova will discuss how Baku's identity of an 'oil city' has been constructed through the narratives on its urban...

  12. The Proxy Paradox

    The Proxy Paradox

    Explaining (Lack of) Control over State-Sponsored Proxy Armed Groups

    Email -- [email protected] to register! The Institute for the Study of War and Strategy (ISWS) seminar series presents Dr Sara Plana postdoctoral...

  13. Media Development Aid and Preventing Violent Extremism: some distinctions in communication interventions in conflict

    Media Development Aid and Preventing Violent Extremism: some distinctions in communication interventions in conflict

    Jake Lynch is the most published and most cited author on Peace Journalism, with six books and over sixty articles and book chapters to his credit. His work has...

  14. Confronting the Money Power: Anti-debt Movements in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

    Confronting the Money Power: Anti-debt Movements in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

    Dr Elmira Satybaldieva , University of Kent

    The Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies (MECACS) Presents 'Confronting the Money Power: Anti-debt Movements in Kazakhstan and...

  15. Saints Talk -- Professor Caron Gentry: Women and Terrorism

    Saints Talk -- Professor Caron Gentry: Women and Terrorism

    In the fourth lecture of the Saints Talk online series, Professor Caron Gentry will talk about Women and Terrorism. Women's participation in political...

  16. Online violent extremism content in Northern-Africa: a case study

    Online violent extremism content in Northern-Africa: a case study

    Join The Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence for its first public lecture of the Candlemas semester. Dr Guillaume Soto-Mayor is Head...

  17. Public Lecture

    Public Lecture

    Jim Gallagher (CB FRSE) "Scotland: A Nation Squeezed Between Two Nationalisms"

  18. ISWS Welcome Reception

    ISWS Welcome Reception

    ISWS Welcome Reception Welcome reception for ISWS faculty and students

  19. Postcolonial Collusion

    Postcolonial Collusion

    School of International Relations Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV)

  20. ISWS Lecture Series

    ISWS Lecture Series

    Brigadier Khashi Sharifi, OBE talks on British Army's Futures Command as well as research and expertise on organizational learning and strategic culture....