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Recent media
ASIS DEI Study Addresses Male-Dominated Security Market, Security Sales & Integration, 19 January 2023, Jason Knott
How CSOs can ensure diversity, equity and inclusion in corporate security, Wire19, January 19 2023, Amy Sarah John
Understanding the Diversity Dividend, ASIS International Podcast, January 2023
Where Does DE&I Stand in the Security Industry, Security Management Magazine, 18 January, 2023
Cyber Leadership and Costly Mistakes, Association of Date and Cyber Governance podcast, November 2022
Ask an ASIS Champion: Insights from Rachel Briggs, ASIS International, September 2022
British hostages ‘left floundering’ in rogue states by a revolving door of foreign secretaries, i Newspaper, August 2022
Brittney Griner’s freedom will be sold off by the Kremlin as hostage diplomacy keeps paying off, i Newspaper, August 2022
The Final Days of Captivity, Delayed Gratification, April 2022
Easy Prey Podcast, March 2022
Five steps to tackle state hostage taking, The World Today, 3 December, 2021
Why businesses cannot be blind to the rise of state hostage taking, Investment Monitor, 24 November 2021
The Dilemma of Europe’s Returning Female Jihadis, EU Observer, September 2021
Hostage Taking: A conversation, with Phil Gurski of Borealis Threat and Risk, July 2021
Learning from hostages: six lessons for resilience for these difficult times, in Parents with Preparedness, Issue 2, December 2020
Bringing Americans Home 2020, launch event hosted by Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation and CNN, speaking alongside Lisa Monaco, Diane Foley and Cindy Loertscher.
A British Import: Help for families of hostages seized abroad, Rick Gladstone, The New York Times, August 11, 2017
Don’t forget the Americans held hostage around the world, Rachel Briggs, Washington Post, December 21, 2018
Aid Group for Hostages’ Families Seeks to Help Through ‘Lonely Experience’, Carrie Johnson, November 23, 2018, NPR
FifTV interview, August 2018
A Fruitless Fixation on Terrorist Attacks, Financial Times, July 2006
Events and Videos
State Sponsored Hostage Taking Chatham House, October 2021
Responding to Non-State Hostage Taking Chatham House, November 2021
The Legacy of Guantanamo Bay Prison Chatham House, March 2022
Evidence to Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry into State Hostage Taking, May 2022
Keyboard Warriors or International Terrorists? Chatham House, July 2022
Publications
Cyber Security is Broken: Here’s how to fix it, Savanti, 2022 with Richard Brinson
‘The Fall of the Big Men’, Global Dashboard, June 2020
Western Foreign Fighters: Innovations in responding to the threat, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2014
Foreign Fighters: The challenge of counter-narratives, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2014
Inspire, Radicalise, Recruit: Countering the appeal of extremism online, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2014
‘New Alliances in Foreign Policy’ in M Roberts and U Storck (eds.), One Nation in the World: A new foreign policy for the left, Fabian Society, 2013
Foreign Fighters: The challenge of counter-narratives, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2013
Review of Programmes to Counter Narratives of Violent Extremism, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2013
Tackling Extremism: De-radicalisation and disengagement, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2012
‘The New Radical Right: A policy brief’ in The New Radical Right: Violent and Non-Violent Movements in Europe, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2012
Radicalisation: The role of the Internet, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2011
‘Hearts and Minds and Votes: The role of democratic participation in countering terrorism’ in J. Schwarzmantel and H.J. Kraetzschmar (eds.), Democracy and Violence: Global Debates and local challenges, Routledge, 2011
‘Community Engagement for Counter-terrorism: Lessons from the United Kingdom’ International Affairs, 86: 4, 2010 [subscription required]
‘Hearts and Minds and Votes: The role of democratic participation in countering terrorism’, Democratisation Journal 2010
‘Renewing Foreign Policy’, Renewal, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2009
‘Radicalisation among Muslims in the UK’ in Michael Emerson (ed.), Ethno-Religious Conflict in Europe: Typologies of Radicalisation in Europe’s Muslim Communities (CEPS, 2009)
‘Why are we so scared of the Respect Party? Why dissent is our best hope for a cohesive Britain’, Renewal, Vol. 15, No. 2/3, 2007
Cultural Diplomacy: The role of culture in international relations, Demos 2007
Bringing it Home: Community-based approaches to counter-terrorism, Demos 2006
The Business of Resilience: Corporate security for the 21st century, Demos 2006
In Good Company: The role of business in security sector reform (foreword), Demos 2005
Joining Forces: From national security to networked security, Demos 2005
16 Days: The role of the Olympic Truce in the toolkit for peace, Demos 2004
Doing Business in a Dangerous World, The Foreign Policy Centre, 2003
Keeping Your People Safe, The Foreign Policy Centre, 2003
The Unlikely Counter-Terrorists (ed), The Foreign Policy Centre, 2002
Travel Advice: Getting information to those who need it, The Foreign Policy Centre, 2002
The Kidnapping Business, The Foreign Policy Centre, 2001