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Research
Afghanistan
"Al-Qaeda’s Allies: Explaining the Relationship Between Al-Qaeda and Various Factions of the Taliban After 2001"
By Anne Stenersen. Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative Policy Paper, New America Foundation, April 2010.
"The Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan: Organization, leadership and worldview"
By Anne Stenersen. FFI Research Report No. 2010/00359.
"The Big Impact of Small Footprints"
By Thomas Hegghammer. ForeignPolicy.com, 11 November 2009.
"Al-Qaidas fotsoldater i Afghanistan"
By Anne Stenersen. Published in Norsk Militært Tidsskrift, nr. 4/2009.
"Are the Afghan Taliban Involved in International Terrorism?"
By Anne Stenersen. CTC Sentinel, 2, 9 (September 2009).
"Foreign fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan after 9/11"
Paper presented by Anne Stenersen at
"Understanding Jihadism: Origins, Evolution, and Future Perspectives", a round-table seminar jointly organized by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Sciences Po (France) and Combating Terrorism C-enter/West Point (USA) in Oslo on 19-21 March 2009.
"Blood Brothers or a Marriage of Convenience? The Ideological Relationship between al-Qaida and the Taliban"
By Anne Stenersen. Paper presented at the
The Annual International Studies Association Convention (ISA) in New York, 14-18 February 2009.
Islamic Jihad Union: al-Qaida’s Key to the Turkic World?
By Einar Wigen. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2009/00687.
"Waziristan - impact on the Taliban insurgency and the stability of Pakistan"
By Laila Bokhari. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2006/02894.
"Dissidents in al-Qaida: Abu Mus‘ab al-Suri’s Critique of bin Ladin and the Salafi-Jihadi Current"
Lecture by Dr Brynjar Lia at Princeton University, 219 Aaron Burr Hall, 4:30-6:00 PM, December 3th, 2007.
"Doctrines for Jihadi Terrorist Training"
By Brynjar Lia. Published in Terrorism and Political Violence, 20, 4, (Oct 2008): 518–542.
"Restoring Peace or Provoking Terrorism? Exploring the Links Between Multilateral Military Interventions and International Terrorism"
By Åshild Kjøk, et al. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2003/01547.
"Al-Qaida Statements 2003-2004: A compilation of translated texts by Usama bin Ladin and Ayman al-Zawahiri"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2005/01428.
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Causes of terrorism
"Why Robert Pape is right: jihadi ideological cleavages and patterns of suicide bombings"
Paper presented by Thomas Hegghammer at
"Understanding Jihadism: Origins, Evolution, and Future Perspectives", a round-table seminar jointly organized by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Sciences Po (France) and Combating Terrorism Center/West Point (USA) in Oslo on 19-21 March 2009.
"Causes of terrorism: An Expanded and Updated Review of the Literature"
By Brynjar Lia with Katja Skjølberg. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2004/04307.
"Why terrorism occurs - a survey of theories and hypotheses on the causes of terrorism"
By Brynjar Lia and Katja Skjølberg. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2000/02769.
"Warum es zu Terrorismus kommt: Ein Uberblick über Theorien und Hypothesen zu den Ursachen des Terrorismus"
By Brynjar Lia and Katja Skjølberg. Published in Journal für Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung Vol. 6, No.1 (2004).
"Islamist insurgencies, diasporic support networks, and their host states - the case of the Algerian GIA in Europe 1993-2000"
By Brynjar Lia and Åshild Kjøk. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2001/03789.
"Restoring Peace or Provoking Terrorism? Exploring the Links Between Multilateral Military Interventions and International Terrorism"
By Åshild Kjøk, et al. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2003/01547.
"Jihad in Europe: Post-millennium patterns of jihadist terrorism in Western Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Presentation at "The Roots of Terrorism in Europe"-conference hosted by the Danish Security Intelligence Service in May 2005.
"Jihad in Europe: A Survey of the motivations for Sunni Islamist terrorism in post-millennium Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2004/01146.
Brynjar Lia, Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism: Patterns and Predictions (London: Routledge, 2005/2006). This book offers new perspectives on how globalisation and broader structural causes produce and drive terrorism across the globe in differing contexts.
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CBRN-terrorism
Anne Stenersen:
"Al-Qaida’s Quest for Weapons of Mass Destruction: The history behind the hype"
(Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2009)
Read more..
Anne Stenersen and Brynjar Lia:
"Al-Qaida’s online CBRN manuals: A real threat?"
FFI Research Report No. 2007/02405. (The report is exempt from public disclosure. Government institutions may apply for access by sending a preliminary request to
terrorism@ffi.no
Anne Stenersen:
"Nuclear Terrorism: Hype, Hoax or Waiting to Happen? Nuclear ambitions and capabilities of terrorist organisations", in Kari M Osland and Magnus Eriksson (eds.) Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century. Old Players, New Game - New Players, Old Game (Oslo: NUPI, 2008), pp 924 – 946.
Anne Stenersen:
"Chem-bio cyber-class - Assessing jihadist chemical and biological manuals", Jane’s Intelligence Review, September 2007.
Brynjar Lia:
"Al-Qaida's CBRN Programme: Lessons and Implications"
Paper presented at Norwegian International Defence Seminar (NIDS II), Lillestrøm, Norway October 2004, entitled "Defence Against Weapons of Mass Destruction - International Cooperation and National Preparedness".
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Critical infrastructure
"The Terrorism Threat to Energy Supply Chains"
By Brynjar Lia.
Presentation at the
final conference
of the
COUNTERACT-project (Cluster Of User Networks in Transport and Energy Relating to Anti-terrorist ACTivities), funded by the European Commission in Brussels, 3 March 2009.
"Al-Qaeda online: understanding jihadist internet infrastructure"
By Brynjar Lia. Published in Jane's Intelligence Review, December 2005.
"Energy Supply as Terrorist Targets? Patterns of 'Petroleum Terrorism' 1968-1999"
By Brynjar Lia og Åshild Kjøk. Published in Daniel Heradstveit & Helge Hveem (eds.) Oil in the Gulf: Obstacles to Democracy and Development. (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2004), pp.100-124.
"Terrorism and oil - an explosive mixture? A survey of terrorist and rebel attacks on petroleum infrastructure 1968-1999"
By Åshild Kjøk and Brynjar Lia. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2001/04031.
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Europe
"Lessons Learned from the July 2010 Norwegian Terrorist Plot"
By Petter Nesser and Brynjar Lia. Published in
CTC Sentinel, Volume.3, Issue.8, (August 2010).
"Motivations for jihad in Europe"
Keynote speech by Petter Nesser at the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)’s Harmony Workshop Précis: Jihadist Networks in Europe, held on 30 June 2009 in Washington D.C.
"The search for a jihadi identity in Europe"
Paper presented by Petter Nesser at
"Understanding Jihadism: Origins, Evolution, and Future Perspectives", a round-table seminar jointly organized by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Sciences Po (France) and Combating Terrorism Center/West Point (USA) in Oslo on 19-21 March 2009.
"Ideological influences and patterns of Jihadism in Europe"
By Petter Nesser.
Paper presented at
The Annual International Studies Association Convention (ISA) in New York, 14-18 February 2009.
Islamic Jihad Union: al-Qaida’s Key to the Turkic World?
By Einar Wigen. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2009/00687.
"Chronology of Jihadism in Western Europe 1994-2007: Planned, Prepared, and Executed Terrorist Attacks"
By Petter Nesser. Published in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 31, 10, (Oct 2008): 924-946.
"Lessons Learned from the September 2007 German Terrorist Plot"
By Petter Nesser. Published in CTC Sentinel, Volume.1, Issue.4, (March 2008).
"Jihadism in Western Europe After the Invasion of Iraq: Tracing Motivational Influences from the Iraq War on Jihadist Terrorism in Western Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 29, Number 4, June 2006 , pp. 323-342.
"Profiles of Jihadist Terrorists in Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Published in A Future for the Young, Options for helping Middle Eastern Youth Escape the Trap of Radicalization. RAND Report edited by Sheryl Bernard (2006).
"The slaying of the dutch filmmaker: Religiously motivated violence or Islamist terrorism in the name of global jihad?"
By Petter Nesser. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2005/00376.
"Jihad in Europe: A Survey of the motivations for Sunni Islamist terrorism in post-millennium Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2004/01146.
"Local Networks and Recruitment for the Jihad"
By Petter Nesser. Presentation at the conference 'Best Practices in European Counter Terrorism', hosted by the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies (CATS) in cooperation with the US Department of State and Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm on 1-2 November 2006.
"How Radicalization Occurs in Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Presentation at the Second Inter-Agency Radicalization Conference hosted by U.S. Department of Homeland Security on 10 July 2006.
"Jihadist Cell Structures in the UK and Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Presentation at the conference "The Changing Faces of Jihadism: Profiles, Biographies, Motivations" on 27-28 April 2006, organised by the Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College, London, in cooperation with the FFI.
"Jihad in Europe; recruitment for terrorist cells in Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Presentation at the FFI-seminar "Paths to Global Jihad: Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terror Networks" at Oslo military Society on 15 March 2006.
"Jihadist reactions to the Muhammad cartoons"
By Truls H. Tønnessen. Presentation at the FFI-seminar "Paths to Global Jihad: Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terror Networks" at Oslo military Society on 15 March 2006.
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Ideology
"Al-Qaeda’s Allies: Explaining the Relationship Between Al-Qaeda and Various Factions of the Taliban After 2001"
By Anne Stenersen. Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative Policy Paper, New America Foundation, April 2010.
"Lady Gaga vs. the Occupation"
By Thomas Hegghammer. ForeignPolicy.com, 31 March 2010.
"Jihadi Salafis or Revolutionaries: On Religion and Politics in the Study of Islamist Militancy" in R Meijer (ed), Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement, (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2009), pp. 244-266.
By Thomas Hegghammer.
"The Ideological Hybridization of Jihadi Groups"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Current Trends in Islamist Ideology 9 (November 2009).
"Why Robert Pape is right: jihadi ideological cleavages and patterns of suicide bombings"
Paper presented by Thomas Hegghammer at
"Understanding Jihadism: Origins, Evolution, and Future Perspectives", a round-table seminar jointly organized by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Sciences Po (France) and Combating Terrorism Center/West Point (USA) in Oslo on 19-21 March 2009.
"Whither Al-Qaida? Assessing Its Ideological Evolution and Its Struggle to Stay Relevant in Local Insurgencies"
FFI's Terrorism Research Group organised a panel at
The Annual International Studies Association Convention (ISA) in New York, 14-18 February 2009, during which the following papers were presented:
"Blood Brothers or a Marriage of Convenience? The Ideological Relationship between al-Qaida and the Taliban".
By Anne Stenersen.
"Ideological influences and patterns of Jihadism in Europe". By Petter Nesser.
"Which Jihad in Iraq?". By Truls Hallberg Tønnessen.
"Al-Qaida in Islamic Maghreb: Ideological Dissent in the Algerian Jihad". By Hanna Rogan.
"Does al-Qaida Articulate a Consistent Strategy? A Study of al-Qaida Leadership Statements, 2001-2008". By Brynjar Lia.
"THE_LONDON_BOMBINGS.COM: An Analysis of Jihadist Website Discussion about the Attacks".
By Hanna Rogan. Published as FFI/NOTAT-2005/02970.
"Al-Qaida’s Appeal: Understanding its Unique Selling Points"
By Brynjar Lia. Published in Perspectives on Terrorism, 2, 8 (May 2008): 3-10.
"Osama bin Laden's true priorities"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Op-ed article in The Guardian, 3 Dec 2007.
"Jihadi studies: The obstacles to understanding radical Islam and the opportunities to know it better"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in The Times Literary Supplement, 2 April 2008.
"Global Jihadism After the Iraq War"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in The Middle East Journal, vol. 60 no. 1 (2006), pp. 11-32
"'Destructive Doctrinairians': Abu Mus'ab al-Suri's Critique of the Salafis in the Jihadi Current"
in Roel Meijer (ed) Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement (London: Hurst, 2009), pp. 249-268.
"Abu Mus'ab al-Suri's Critique of Hard Line Salafists in the Jihadist Current"
By Brynjar Lia. Published in CTC Sentinel, Volume.1, Issue.1, 18 December 2007.
"Al-Qaida Statements 2003-2004: A compilation of translated texts by Usama bin Ladin and Ayman al-Zawahiri"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2005/01428.
"Dokumentasjon om al-Qaida - intervjuer, kommunikéer og andre primærkilder, 1990-2002"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2002/01393.
"THE_LONDON_BOMBINGS.COM: An Analysis of Jihadist Website Discussion about the Attacks"
By Hanna Rogan. Published as FFI/NOTAT-2005/02970
"Jihadism in Western Europe After the Invasion of Iraq: Tracing Motivational Influences from the Iraq War on Jihadist Terrorism in Western Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 29, Number 4, June 2006 , pp. 323-342.
"Jihad in Europe: Post-millennium patterns of jihadist terrorism in Western Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Presentation at "The Roots of Terrorism in Europe"-conference hosted by the Danish Security Intelligence Service in May 2005.
"Until the end of time"
Book review of L'Apocalypse dans l'Islam by Jean-Pierre Filiu, The National, 16 February 2009. By Thomas Hegghammer.
"Et islamistisk studentopprør?"
By Truls Hallberg Tønnessen. Published in Babylon: Tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika, 6, 2, (2008): 20-29.
"Doctrines for Jihadi Terrorist Training"
By Brynjar Lia. Published in Terrorism and Political Violence, 20, 4, (Oct 2008): 518–542.
"Da'wa, Jihad, and Salafism in Saudi Arabia and Yemen"
On 24 November 2008, FFI's senior research fellow Dr Thomas Hegghammer spoke at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC about the differences and similarities between al-Qaida in Yemen and al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia.
For a summary of the seminar
see..
For a video of the seminar
see..
"Jihadist reactions to the Muhammad cartoons"
By Truls H. Tønnessen. Presentation at the FFI-seminar "Paths to Global Jihad: Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terror Networks" at Oslo military Society on 15 March 2006.
"Al Qaeda's Dissident Voices"
Lecture by FFI's senior research fellow Dr Brynjar Lia at CSIS Congressional Forum on Islam, December 4th, 2007 at Capitol Hill, Washington D.C.
Read a summary of
the lecture..
"Jihadi Strategic Studies: The Alleged Al Qaeda Policy Study Preceding the Madrid Bombings"
By Brynjar Lia and Thomas Hegghammer. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 27, 4, (Sep-Oct 2004): 355-375.
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Iraq
"The advent of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq"
Paper presented by Truls H. Tønnessen at
"Understanding Jihadism: Origins, Evolution, and Future Perspectives", a round-table seminar jointly organized by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Sciences Po (France) and Combating Terrorism Center/West Point (USA) in Oslo on 19-21 March 2009.
"Which Jihad in Iraq?"
By Truls Hallberg Tønnessen. Paper presented at
The Annual International Studies Association Convention (ISA) in New York, 14-18 February 2009.
The Madrid document:
FFI explains the al-Qaida document "Jihadi Iraq: Hopes and Risks".
Read the document here.
Read FFI's analysis here.
"Jihadi Strategic Studies: The Alleged Al Qaeda Policy Study Preceding the Madrid Bombings"
By Brynjar Lia and Thomas Hegghammer. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 27, 4, (Sep-Oct 2004): 355-375.
"Saudi militants in Iraq - backgrounds and recruitment patterns"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2006/03875.
"Combattants saoudiens en Irak"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in Cultures & Conflits, 64 (2007).
"Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Death of an Icon"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in Opendemocracy.net.
"The Ansar al-Islam Group Revisited"
By Brynjar Lia. Paper presented at the "Islamism and European Security" - Seminar on 15-16 June 2006, sponsored by the Danish Social Science Research Council and hosted by the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
"Global Jihadism After the Iraq War"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in The Middle East Journal, vol. 60 no. 1 (2006), pp. 11-32.
"The Iraqi Hostage Crisis: abductions in Iraq April-August 2004"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2004/03105.
"Training on a Battlefield: Iraq as a Training Ground for Global Jihadis"
By Truls Hallberg Tønnessen. Published in Terrorism and Political Violence, 20, 4, (Oct 2008): 543 – 562.
"Training in a battlefield: Iraq as a training ground for global jihadists"
By Truls Hallberg Tønnessen. Paper presented at the conference "The Jihadist Phenomenon: A Social Sciences Perspective" in Menton, France, 26-28 October, 2007.
"Jihadism in Western Europe After the Invasion of Iraq: Tracing Motivational Influences from the Iraq War on Jihadist Terrorism in Western Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 29, Number 4, June 2006, pp. 323-342.
"Abu Reuter and the E-Jihad: Virtual Battlefronts from Iraq to the Horn of Africa"
By Hanna Rogan. Published in Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, vol. 8, no. 2, (Summer/Fall 2007),
pp. 89-96.
"The Rise of Salafi-Jihadi Groups in Iraq: Some preliminary Observations"
By Brynjar Lia. Doctor Philosophiae Lecture, University of Oslo, 20 November 2003.
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Jihadism on the Web
"What is audio-visual jihadi propaganda? An overview of the content of FFI's jihadi video database"
By Cecilie Finsnes. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2010/00960.
"The Internet: A Virtual Training Camp?"
By Anne Stenersen. Published in Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 20, Issue 2 (April 2008), pp. 215–233.
"Al-Qaeda's online media strategies: From Abu Reuter to Irhabi 007"
By Hanna Rogan. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2007/02729.
"Chem-bio cyber-class: Assessing jihadist chemical and biological manuals"
By Anne Stenersen. Published in Jane’s Intelligence Review, September 2007.
"Al-Qaida’s online CBRN manuals: A real threat?"
By Anne Stenersen and Brynjar Lia. Published as FFI Research Report No.2007/02405. (The report is exempt from public disclosure. Government institutions may apply for access by sending a preliminary request to
terrorism@ffi.no.
"The Internet: A virtual training camp?"
By Anne Stenersen. Paper presented at the conference "The Jihadist Phenomenon: A Social Sciences Perspective" in Menton, France, 26-28 October, 2007.
"Dynamics of the Jihadi Online Media Campaign"
By Hanna Rogan. Paper presented at the conference "The Jihadist Phenomenon: A Social Sciences Perspective" in Menton, France, 26-28 October, 2007.
"Abu Reuter and the E-Jihad: Virtual Battlefronts from Iraq to the Horn of Africa"
By Hanna Rogan. Published in Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, vol. 8, no. 2, (Summer/Fall 2007), pp. 89-96.
"Jihadi Web Media Production: Characteristics, Trends, and Future Implications"
By Brynjar Lia. Paper presented at a conference in Berlin on 26 February 2007. The conference, entitled "Monitoring, Research and Analysis of Jihadist Activities on the Internet – Ways to Deal With the Issue", was hosted by the German Ministry of Interior and gathered participants from many EU countries.
"Jihadism Online"
By Truls Hallberg Tønnessen and Anne Stenersen. Presentation held at a teleconference hosted by US Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) and Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG) on 13th December 2006.
"Jihadism Online: A study of how al-Qaida and radikal Islamist groups use the Internet for terrorist purpose"
By Hanna Rogan. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2006/00915.
"Al-Qaeda online: understanding jihadist internet infrastructure"
By Brynjar Lia. Published in Jane’s Intelligence Review, December 2005.
"THE_LONDON_BOMBINGS.COM: An Analysis of Jihadist Website Discussion about the Attacks"
By Hanna Rogan. Published as FFI/NOTAT-2005/02970
The Madrid document:
FFI explains the al-Qaida document "Jihadi Iraq: Hopes and Risks".
Read the document here..
Read FFI's analysis here..
Brynjar Lia and Thomas Hegghammer:
"Jihadi Strategic Studies: The Alleged Al Qaeda Policy Study Preceding the Madrid Bombings"
Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 27, 4 (Sept/Oct 2007), pp. 355-375.
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Lebanon and Palestine
"Al-Qaida – a challenge for Hamas?"
By Are Hovdenak (PRIO). Published as FFI Research Report No. 2009/00092.
"Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon: Between global and local jihad"
By Tine Gade. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2007/02727.
"Osama bin Laden's true priorities"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Op-ed article, The Guardian, 3 December 2007.
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North Africa
"Violent Patterns: A quantitative study of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghrib"
Paper presented at
"Understanding Jihadism: Origins, Evolution, and Future Perspectives", a round-table seminar jointly organized by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Sciences Po (France) and Combating Terrorism C-enter/West Point (USA) in Oslo on 19-21 March 2009.
"Al-Qaida in Islamic Maghreb: Ideological Dissent in the Algerian Jihad"
By Hanna Rogan. Paper presented at The Annual International Studies Association Convention (ISA) in New York, 14-18 February 2009.
"Al-Qaida au Maghreb Islamique: Les attentats aveugles divisent les troupes"
By Hanna Rogan. Published in Alternatives Internationales, Numéro 41 (Décembre 2008).
"Violent Trends in Algeria Since 9/11"
By Hanna Rogan. Published in CTC Sentinel, Volume.1, Issue.12, (November 2008).
"Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb Strikes Again"
By Hanna Rogan. Published in Perspectives on Terrorism, Volume II, Issue 8 (May 2008), pp. 23-28.
"Islamist insurgencies, diasporic support networks, and their host states - the case of the Algerian GIA in Europe 1993-2000"
By Brynjar Lia and %shild Kjøk. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2001/03789.
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Pakistan
"Are the Afghan Taliban Involved in International Terrorism?"
By Anne Stenersen.
CTC Sentinel, 2, 9 (September 2009).
"Islamist opposition in the Islamic Republic: Jundullah and the spread of extremist Deobandism in Iran"
By Audun Kolstad Wiig. FFI Research Report No. 2009/01265.
"Weapons of Mass Instruction? A preliminary exploration of the link between madrassas in Pakistan and militancy"
By Qandeel Siddique. FFI Research Report No. 2008/02326.
"Islamic Jihad Union: al-Qaida’s Key to the Turkic World?"
By Einar Wigen. FFI Research Report No. 2009/00687. (Kjeller: The Norwegian Defence Research Est. (FFI), 2009).
"Foreign fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan after 9/11"
Paper presented by Anne Stenersen at
"Understanding Jihadism: Origins, Evolution, and Future Perspectives", a round-table seminar jointly organized by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Sciences Po (France) and Combating Terrorism Center/West Point (USA), at the Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica in Oslo on 19-21 March 2009.
"What is Lashkar-e-Taiba?"
Presentation by FFI’s Research Consultant Qandeel Sham Siddique at a seminar organised by Consortium for Research on International Terrorism and Organised Crime, hosted by NUPI on 10 December 2008.
"The Red Mosque operation and its impact on the growth of the Pakistani Taliban"
By Qandeel Siddique. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2008/01915.
"Danish Embassy Bombing in Islamabad and Pakistan’s Security Situation"
Lecture by FFI’s Research Consultant Qandeel Sham Siddique at a seminar organised by Consortium for Research on International Terrorism and Organised Crime, hosted by NUPI on 11 June 2008.
"Waziristan - impact on the Taliban insurgency and the stability of Pakistan"
By Laila Bokhari. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2006/02894.
"Paths to jihad - faces of terrorism": interviews within radical islamist movements in Pakistan"
By Laila Bokhari. Presentation at the FFI seminar "Paths to Global Jihad: Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terror Networks" at Oslo military Society on 15 March 2006.
"Lessons Learned from the September 2007 German Terrorist Plot"
By Petter Nesser. Published in CTC Sentinel, Volume.1, Issue.4, (March 2008).
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Radicalisation and recruitment
"Weapons of Mass Instruction? A preliminary exploration of the link between madrassas in Pakistan and militancy"
By Qandeel Siddique. FFI Research Report No. 2008/02326.
"Motivations for jihad in Europe"
Keynote speech by Petter Nesser at the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)’s Harmony Workshop Précis: Jihadist Networks in Europe, held on 30 June 2009 in Washington D.C.
"The Struggle Within"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Review of the documentary film "Recycle". Published in The National, 13 February 2009.
"Deradicalization and rehabilitation programmes targeting religious terrorists and extremists in the Muslim world: An overview"
By Richard Barret and Laila Bokhari. Published in Tore Bjørgo and John Horgan (eds): Leaving Terrorism Behind: Individual and collective disengagement.
"The Red Mosque operation and its impact on the growth of the Pakistani Taliban"
By Qandeel Siddique. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2008/01915.
"Lessons Learned from the September 2007 German Terrorist Plot"
By Petter Nesser. Published in CTC Sentinel, Volume.1, Issue.4, (March 2008).
"Jihadism in Western Europe After the Invasion of Iraq: Tracing Motivational Influences from the Iraq War on Jihadist Terrorism in Western Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 29, Number 4, June 2006 , pp. 323-342.
"The airliner plot" - en kort analyse av operasjonsmønster, motivasjoner og internasjonale forbindelser"
By Petter Nesser. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2006/03084.
"Profiles of Jihadist Terrorists in Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Published in A Future for the Young, Options for helping Middle Eastern Youth Escape the Trap of Radicalization. RAND Report edited by Sheryl Bernard (2006).
"The slaying of the dutch filmmaker: Religiously motivated violence or Islamist terrorism in the name of global jihad?"
By Petter Nesser. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2005/00376.
"Jihad in Europe: A Survey of the motivations for Sunni Islamist terrorism in post-millennium Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2004/01146.
"Saudi militants in Iraq - backgrounds and recruitment patterns"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2006/03875.
"Terrorist Recruitment and Radicalisation in Saudi Arabia"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in The Middle East Policy 13, 4 (2006).
"Local Networks and Recruitment for the Jihad"
By Petter Nesser. Presentation at the conference 'Best Practices in European Counter Terrorism', hosted by the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies (CATS) in cooperation with the US Department of State and Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm on 1-2 November 2006.
"How Radicalization Occurs in Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Presentation at the Second Inter-Agency Radicalization Conference hosted by U.S. Department of Homeland Security on 10 July 2006.
"Jihadist Cell Structures in the UK and Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Presentation at the conference "The Changing Faces of Jihadism: Profiles, Biographies, Motivations" on 27-28 April 2006, organised by the Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College, London, in cooperation with the FFI.
"Jihadists in Saudi-Arabia"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Presentation at the conference "The Changing Faces of Jihadism: Profiles, Biographies, Motivations" on 27-28 April 2006, organised by the Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College, London, in cooperation with the FFI.
"Paths to Global Jihad - Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terror Networks"
By Laila Bokhari et al. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2006/00935.
"Jihad in Europe; recruitment for terrorist cells in Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Presentation at the FFI-seminar "Paths to Global Jihad: Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terror Networks" at Oslo military Society on 15 March 2006.
"Militant islamism in Saudi Arabia: Patterns of recruitment to Al-Qaida on The Arabian Peninsula"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Presentation at the FFI-seminar "Paths to Global Jihad: Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terror Networks" at Oslo military Society on 15 March 2006.
"Paths to jihad - faces of terrorism": interviews within radical islamist movements in Pakistan"
By Laila Bokhari. Presentation at the FFI-seminar "Paths to Global Jihad: Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terror Networks" at Oslo military Society on 15 March 2006.
"Jihad in Europe: Post-millennium patterns of jihadist terrorism in Western Europe"
By Petter Nesser. Presentation at "The Roots of Terrorism in Europe"-conference hosted by the Danish Security Intelligence Service in May 2005.
"Jihadist reactions to the Muhammad cartoons"
By Truls H. Tønnessen. Presentation at the FFI-seminar "Paths to Global Jihad: Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terror Networks" at Oslo military Society on 15 March 2006.
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Russia and the Caucasus
"The Threat from Russian Organised Crime"
By Rolf-Inge Vogt Andresen. Presentation at "Terrorism - Past, Present and Future", an FFI Seminar at Oslo Military Society in September 2000.
"Terrorism and organised crime in post-Soviet Russia"
By Rolf-Inge Vogt Andresen. Published as
FFI Research Report No. 2001/03417.
Related FFI studies
"When separatists become Islamists: the case of Chechnya"
By Julie Wilhelmsen- Published as FFI Research Report No. 2004/00445.
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Saudi Arabia
"Yemeni Threat in Saudi Arabia"
By Thomas Hegghammer.
ForeignPolicy.com, 26 March 2010.
"There is nothing soft about Saudi counterterrorism"
By Thomas Hegghammer.
ForeignPolicy.com, 11 March 2010.
"The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Occasional Paper Series, West Point, NY: Combating Terrorism Center, 25 February 2010.
"Family Values"
By Thomas Hegghammer.
Book review of Najwa bin Laden et al., Growing up Bin Laden, in The National, 7 January 2010.
"Jihad, Yes, But Not Revolution: Explaining the Extraversion of Islamist Violence in Saudi Arabia"
By Thomas Hegghammer.
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 36, 3, pp. 395-416.
"Islamist violence and regime stability in Saudi Arabia"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in International Affairs, 84, 4 (2008): 701-715.
"Deconstructing the Myth about al-Qa`ida and Khobar"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in CTC Sentinel, Volume.1, Issue.3, (February 2008).
"Al-Qaida Focuses on Saudi Oil"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in Oxford Analytica, 11 September 2007.
"Rejectionist Islamism in Saudi Arabia: The Story of Juhayman al-Utaybi Revisited"
By Thomas Hegghammer and Stéphane Lacroix. Published in International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 2007.
"Saudi militants in Iraq - backgrounds and recruitment patterns"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2006/03875.
"Terrorist Recruitment and Radicalisation in Saudi Arabia"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in The Middle East Policy, 13, 4 (2006).
"Saudi Arabia Backgrounder: Who are the Islamists?"
By Thomas Hegghammer and Stephane Lacroix, (Brussels: International Crisis Group, 2004).
"Global Jihadism After the Iraq War"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Published in The Middle East Journal, vol. 60 no. 1 (2006), pp. 11-32.
"Orthodoxy and Radicalism in Saudi Arabia"
Lecture by FFI's research fellow Dr Thomas Hegghammer at CSIS Congressional Forum on Islam, March 3th, 2008 at Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. The event was organised by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)'s Middle East Program.
"Political Violence in Saudi Arabia: The Rise and Fall of al-Qaida on the Arabian Peninsula"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Lecture at Princeton University, 2 March 2007.
"Jihadists in Saudi-Arabia"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Presentatio at the conference "The Changing Faces of Jihadism: Profiles, Biographies, Motivations" on 27-28 April 2006, organised by the Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College, London, in cooperation with the FFI.
"Militant islamism in Saudi Arabia: Patterns of recruitment to Al-Qaida on The Arabian Peninsula"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Presentation at the FFI-seminar "Paths to Global Jihad: Radicalisation and Recruitment to Terror Networks" at Oslo military Society on 15 March 2006.
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Strategies
"Global Jihadi Strategic Theory"
Presentation by FFI's senior research fellow Brynjar Lia at the seminar "Irregular Warfare in Modern Times: Nasty, Brutish, But Not Short", United States Naval War College Conference Sponsored by The Center For Naval Warfare Studies & The John Brown Chair on Counter-Terrorism, September 15-16, 2009, McCarty Little Hall Auditorium.
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Read about the seminar..
"Does al-Qaida Articulate a Consistent Strategy? A Study of al-Qaida Leadership Statements, 2001-2008"
By Brynjar Lia. Paper presented at
The Annual International Studies Association Convention (ISA) in New York, 14-18 February 2009.
"Strategic Studies in Jihadist Literature"
By Thomas Hegghammer. Lecture at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, 17 May 2006.
"Jihadi Strategic Studies: The Alleged Al Qaeda Policy Study Preceding the Madrid Bombings"
By Brynjar Lia and Thomas Hegghammer. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 27, 4, (Sep-Oct 2004): 355-375.
"'Destructive Doctrinairians': Abu Mus'ab al-Suri's Critique of the Salafis in the Jihadi Current"
By Brynjar Lia. Published in Roel Meijer (ed) Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement (London: Hurst, 2009), pp. 249-268.
"Abu Mus'ab al-Suri's Critique of Hard Line Salafists in the Jihadist Current"
By Brynjar Lia. Published in CTC Sentinel, Volume.1, Issue.1, 18 December 2007.
"Islamist insurgencies, diasporic support networks, and their host states - the case of the Algerian GIA in Europe 1993-2000"
By Brynjar Lia and Åshild Kjøk. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2001/03789
The Madrid document:
FFI explains the al-Qaida document "Jihadi Iraq: Hopes and Risks"
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here.. (pdf)
Read FFI's analysis
here..
"Jihadi Strategic Studies: The Alleged Al Qaeda Policy Study Preceding the Madrid Bombings"
By Brynjar Lia and Thomas Hegghammer. Published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 27, 4, (Sep-Oct 2004): 355-375.
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Terrorism and peacekeeping
"Restoring Peace or Provoking Terrorism? Exploring the Links Between Multilateral Military Interventions and International Terrorism"
By Åshild Kjøk, et al. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2003/01547.
"Tackling terrorism together: potential benefits of civil-military cooperation in post-conflict territories - the Kosovo case"
By Josefine Ingela Aaser. Published as FFI Research Report No. 2003/00329.
"Muscular Peacekeeping and Terrorism: The Example of Kosovo"
By Annika S. Hansen. Presentation at "Terrorism - Past, Present and Future", an FFI Seminar at Oslo Military Society in September 2000.
Brynjar Lia:
"Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism: Patterns and Predictions" (London: Routledge, 2005/2006).
This book offers new perspectives on how globalisation and broader structural causes produce and drive terrorism across the globe in differing contexts. For a discussion of trends in peacekeeping and military interventions and their impact on terrorism, see chapter 4, pp.72-86.
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Terrorist training
"Doctrines for Jihadi Terrorist Training"
By Brynjar Lia. Published in Terrorism and Political Violence, 20, 4, (Oct 2008): 518–542.
"Training on a Battlefield: Iraq as a Training Ground for Global Jihadis"
By Truls Hallberg Tønnessen. Published in Terrorism and Political Violence, 20, 4, (Oct 2008): 543–562.
"How Did Europe's Global Jihadis Obtain Training for their Militant Causes?"
Terrorism and Political Violence, April 2008.
"The Internet: A Virtual Training Camp?"
By Anne Stenersen. Published in Terrorism and Political Violence, Volume 20, Issue 2 (April 2008), pp.215–233.
"The Internet: A virtual training camp?"
By Anne Stenersen. Paper presented at the conference "The Jihadist Phenomenon: A Social Sciences Perspective" in Menton, France, 26-28 October, 2007.
"Training in a battlefield: Iraq as a training ground for global jihadists"
By Truls Hallberg Tønnessen. Paper presented at the conference "The Jihadist Phenomenon: A Social Sciences Perspective" in Menton, France, 26-28 October, 2007.
"Al-Suri's Doctrines for Decentralised Jihadi Training - Part I"
By Brynjar Lia. Published in Terrorism Monitor (Jamestown Foundation), Volume 5, Issue 1 (January 18, 2007).
"Al-Suri's Doctrines for Decentralised Jihadi Training - Part 2"
By Brynjar Lia. Published in Terrorism Monitor (Jamestown Foundation), Volume 5, Issue 2 (February 1, 2007).
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