our three primary objectives
Collaboration
To foster communication and collaboration between academic researchers in multiple disciplines
Interaction
To facilitate the interaction and collaboration of researchers and policy officials
Scholarship
To help cultivate a new and larger generation of scholars interested in these fields of study
most recent Publications
“One-man war”: A History of Lone-actor Terrorism in Canada, 1868-2018
Using primary source material obtained through archives and other open sources, this working paper examines, through a series of qualitative case studies, nineteen lone-actor terrorist…
AN EXAMINATION OF COMPETENCIES FOR AND THE EVALUATION OF CVE IN POLICING
Drawing on expert interviews (n=10), an environmental scan of current practices within one Canadian province (Ontario), and insights generated by a police-academic working group assembled…
TERRORISM AND THE TERRORIZED: How the ‘Terrorism’ Label is Informed and Applied to a Violent Attack in Canada
SUMMARY •The threat posed by al Qaeda, Daesh, and those inspired by their ideologies, has framed the way Canada has understood and labelled terrorism for…