NIJAR Negotiating Peace with Militant Islam in the Sahel: Insights from the NIJAR Project The sight of Al-Qaeda’s flag flying over Mali’s Bamako International Airport after the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) attack in late September highlights a stark reality: in ⋙
Palestine “Islam, Jihad, and Palestine”, the evolution of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad On 9 May 2023, explosions lit up the sky over Gaza City as a series of air strikes launched by Israel killed three leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) ⋙
Gaza The urbicide of the Gaza Strip The war in the Gaza Strip did not end on 21 May 2021, just as it did not begin 12 days earlier. In a sort of contemporary reinterpretation of many ⋙
Field Conducting immersive fieldwork on Tunisian Islamic activism: Methodological and ethical challenges In recent years an increasing number of academic works have focused on the progressive securitization of research conducted in authoritarian contexts (Peter and Strazzari, 2017; Glasius et al., 2017), including ⋙
Debate Reframing the fight against terrorism: can counter-narratives write a new story? With the loss of the last stronghold in Baghouz, ISIS has formally been defeated. However, according to the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, its threat could increase because of combatants returning ⋙
Field Societal effects of countering violent extremism and radicalization in Kosovo Countering terrorism and preventing radicalization and violent extremism have taken center stage in donors’ and governmental policy agendas in Kosovo over the past 6 years. While many research and policy ⋙
