On November 22, 2019, Mr. John Pyrik presented on the Path to Violence at the 2019 CASIS West Coast Security Conference. The presentation was followed by a group panel for questions and answers.
CASIS-Vancouver
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Facing the fourth foreign fighters wave. What drives Europeans to Syria, and to Islamic state? Insights from the Belgian case. Egmont Paper 81, March 2016 [PDF]
‘A bizarre phenomenon,’ Der Spiegel concluded, after trying to figure out why young people left Germany to become foreign fighters in Syria. The magazine painted a portrait of two thirty-somethings with similar backgrounds and the same hobby – martial
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Smart Bioinks for 4D Bioprinting: Requirements, Design, and Applications
Smart bioinks empower 4D‐bioprinted constructs to dynamically adapt and remodel in response to stimuli, effectively biomimicking native tissues. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) play a guiding role in their rational design by optimizing relevant properties.
Shangsi Chen +11 more
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RETURNEES: WHO ARE THEY, WHY ARE THEY (NOT) COMING BACK AND HOW SHOULD WE DEAL WITH THEM? Assessing Policies on Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. Egmont Paper 101, February 2018 [PDF]
Some 5000 men, women and children have travelled from Europe to Syria and Iraq since 2012. An estimated 1500 of these foreign terrorist fighters (FTF) have returned so far.
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Foreign Fighters under International Law
Foreign fighters are not a new phenomenon: the Spanish civil war, the conflict in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion, the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s, and the armed conflicts in Chechnya and Dagestan all attracted significant numbers of so-called ...
Sandra Kraehenmann
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ABSTRACT The origin of a product, if associated with good quality, can contribute to building a positive collective reputation, leading to a potential price premium. However, it is conceivable that a producer markets a product by evoking symbols, images, words, and values typical of places other than where it was designed or produced, creating a ...
Annalisa Caloffi +2 more
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe +2 more
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Foreign Fighters and Their Economic Impact: a Case Study of Syria and al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)
Over the past several years, terrorist and insurgent groups have established sophisticated networks in Syria to facilitate the movement of foreign fighters into Iraq.
Matthew Levitt
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Schematic representation of acellular matrix generation from human uterine fibroblast cells, coating on polycaprolactone electrospun nanofibers, and subsequent in vitro and in vivo characterization. A tissue‐engineered scaffold tailored for uterine myometrium‐specific regeneration is designed. The electrospinning technique was used to fabricate aligned
Srividya Hanuman +3 more
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Prevention of radicalisation: the case of britain [PDF]
The UK Home Secretary who took up office in May 2018 announced that the country has been facing a severe terrorist threat during the last years and protecting the British people will be his top priority.
Kira Godovanyuk
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