Archive for the ‘Islamist militant rhetoric’ Category
Speech at European Commission public private dialogue.
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 22 November 2009
On 27 November 2009 I will be in Brussels speaking at a conference organized by the European Commission. My contribution is below…
Revision note for University of Cambridge Students on secret world intelligence topic
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 17 May 2009
This is a revision note I have drafted for final year pre exam revision for University of Cambridge undergraduates who were supervised by me on Militant Islamist Radicalization on the Internet.
Good luck, make use of this, and keep in touch!
The challenge now is to apply the Internet-focused information and approach from our sessions to practical [...]
Internet censorship book free to view on Google Books
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 18 May 2008
One of the benefits of having published Countering militant Islamist radicalisation on the Internet: a user driven strategy to recover the web with the Institute of International & European Affairs is that I am free to make the book freely available. It has attracted interest from unforeseen quarters. I recently discovered that it was on [...]
My research plan – ‘Online Islamist militant discussion: does the Internet atomise?’
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 10 March 2008
Note: Since I am writing a book on the value of ‘openness’ on the Internet, I have begun to appreciate the worth of making what might otherwise be defendend as intellectual property public. Here follows a stripped down and un footnoted version of my PhD plan.
BBC interviews – on the UK Home Secretary’s proposals
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 18 January 2008
There was little detail in the speech by the UK Home Secretary yesterday, but one possibility is that the CleanFeed system of hybrid URL filtering might be applied to attempt censorship of radical material on the Internet.
I was interviewed for the BBC World News Service and BBC Radio’s Simon Mayo programme. One thought which occurred [...]
Speech at the OSCE experts meeting on violent radicalisation
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 16 November 2007
I spoke recently at the OSCE’s restricted experts meeting on means to counter radicalisation to terrorism on the Internet. See coverage by Reuters here.
This is a draft transcript of my speech
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Excellencies, Ladies & Gentlemen,
Reuters – on OSCE experts meeting…
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 16 November 2007
Reuters reported on some of our presentations at the OSCE annual experts meeting on violent radicalisation on the Internet.
Europe, terrorism and the internet
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 6 November 2007
This is a new article I published on openDemocracy (http://www.opendemocracy.net)
European Union member-state governments are increasingly aware of the danger of terrorism perpetrated within their own borders – sometimes by their own citizens. From late 2005 onwards, the European commission and justice and home affairs (JHA) council of ministers have rightly begun to place a high [...]
Reuters – Experts say West can’t stop Web radicalisation
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 6 November 2007
Michael Holden’s piece for which he interviewed me is at Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL2658640020071106
the same day that I was interviewed on the same topic by FM4 Radio (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) http://www.iiea.com/audio/jryaninternet.mp3
The Four P-Words of Militant Islamist Radicalization and Recruitment: Persecution, Precedent, Piety, and Perseverance
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 4 October 2007
Published in: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 30, Issue 11 November 2007 , pages 985 – 1011
Abstract: This article suggests that a single interpretative framework can be used to understand Islamist militant rhetoric, and to compare it to supposedly more orthodox campaigns such as Irish Republican militancy, differences [...]
The militant Islamist call and its echo
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 2 August 2007
Published on openDemocracy (http://opendemocracy.net/article/democracy_terror/islamism_web)
On the internet, in gymnasiums, bookshops and video-clubs, recruitment propaganda is viewed by and debated among prospective Islamist militants. This wide-ranging material contains four recurrent themes; understanding them is the first step to forming an effective counter-narrative to dissuade the next generation of would-be militants from embracing [...]
Europe’s World article: security & defence dossier “EU must take its anti-terrorism fight to the Internet”
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 24 June 2007
DOSSIER SECURITY AND DEFENCE: EU must take its anti-terrorism fight to the Internet
New Book
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 7 April 2007
Countering Militant Islamist Radicalisation on the Internet: a User Driven Strategy to Recover the Web 160pp, ISBN: 1-874-109-86-9, hardback. Order from Amazon. Read online on Google Books.
Islamists on the internet: brotherhood of belief
Posted by: johnnyryan on: 2 May 2005
This title should have read “Islamist militants on the Internet”.
Published in Magill, May 2005.
In Britain the speed with which the Muslim diaspora embraced the internet was demonstrated by the British Muslim Parliament’s order to all mosques and Muslim schools to install web access as early as 1996. With so many young Muslims in [...]
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