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This part of the website includes reports about terrorism and counterterrorism. Downloads are available of the NCTV and the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD). A complete overview of AIVD-reports is provided at the AIVD-website. Reports of the Research and Documentation Centre (WODC) are also included.
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Summary of report: Means of information and information-seeking behaviour at timea of threat and crisis
Report | 03-05-2012 | pdf-document | 29 KB
This survey revealed the outlines of a model to predict information-seeking behaviour in crisis situations. The factors that explain the behaviour have been exposed. Still, it is clear that there has been little empirical research that could confirm any connections. In the present survey among a cross section of the Dutch people some connections have been found: firstly between the tendency to seek information and the individual involvement and risk perception, expectations from the social environment and the individual characteristics relating to age and education level. Furthermore there is a connection between the perception of usefulness, result and workability of the perspective to act and the chance that this perspective to act is followed up. Here there are fine distinctions because the present survey was focused on a limited number of hypothetical situations and intended behaviour.
Summary of report: Religion, Bridging and Polarization
Report | 06-03-2012 | pdf-document | 0.44 MB
The present work explores from a religious-studies perspective the responses of leaders of various religious and humanist organizations in the Netherlands, both Islamic and non-Islamic, to criticism of Islam. In particular, it asks what the factors are that shaped those responses. Our focus is on the responses to five expressions that can be seen as critical of Islam and/or anti-Islamic (henceforth, the Islam-critical expressions): the film submission by Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh and Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali (August 2004), the Danish Cartoon Affair (September 2005 - 2006), the film Fitna by Dutch politician Geert Wilders (March 2008), the internet film An Interview with Mohammed by Ehsan Jami (December 2008), the Swiss ban on the building of minarets (November 2009).
Summary: Fanaticism - Christian, islamist and secular apocalyptic violence throughout the ages
Report | 06-03-2012 | pdf-document | 59 KB
Summary of the research of mr Bob de Graaff, former professor Campus Den Haag Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism. The author has researched narrative structures that during the previous thousand years advocated or facilitated millenarian violence. In the process, he has studies particularly Christian and post-Christian variants of apocalyptic narratives in Western Europe and the United States, as well as Islamic apocalyptic utterances of the last century in particular.
Jihadism in Northern Africa
Report | 14-11-2011 | pdf-document | 0.30 MB
This paper is an attempt to learn more about AQIM and Boko Haram. There are several reasons for doing this. In the first place, AQIM and Boko Haram are responsible for the death of hundreds of people in Northern Africa. Secondly, the effects of their use of violence are not limited to the countries in the region themselves because there are numerous contacts between Northern Africa and Europe. Thirdly, AQIM maintains ties with the Al-Qaeda network, while in the case of Boko Haram there is at least an ideological connectedness. Finally, there are economic interests that are damaged by violent assault, illegal trafficking and kidnapping. The findings in this paper are the result of a study for the Research and Documentation Centre of the Netherlands Ministry of Security and Justice at the request of the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism into jihadist organizations in Northern Africa.
Good practices manual for CIP policies
Report | 29-07-2011 | pdf-document | 21.47 MB
Many nations are currently working on Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) programmes, often facing similar issues and challenges. The sharing of experiences, challenges and solutions would greatly benefit these initiatives. The project has the objective to integrate CIP knowledge and experiences by identifying good practices. These are aggregated and shared among all policymakers in Europe by means of a manual. This manual was developed by a consortium led by TNO, with project partners from government organisations in the Netherlands, Slovakia, Estonia, and OIIP, an Austrian research organisation. Topics covered in the manual are: How to identify CI, The role of dependencies in CIP, Public-private partnerships, Information sharing, The role of risk management in CIP and The role of crisis management in CIP. In the manual, you will find a general description of the essential elements of these topics followed by selected good practices which are rated on their applicability to specific national contexts.
