For media and book enquiries, please contact Northbank Talent: info@northbanktalent.com / +44 (0) 20 3973 0837. Please also see more information about me, my consultancy and speaking engagements. I am currently writing a book about hostage taking and hostage diplomacy.
Recent media:
Why businesses cannot be blind to the rise of state hostage taking, Investment Monitor, 24 November 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
My publications include:
‘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