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
The Khalistan Movement and Its Impact in Canada
The Sikh separatist movement — Khalistan — peaked in the 1980s and early 1990s in Punjab, India. The idea of Khalistan is complex and multi-layered…
China’s Digital War on Terrorism: Can Mass Surveillance and Cyber Censorship Radicalize a Nation
This research brief concisely describes my analysis of China’s internet censorship system – colloquially known as “the Great Firewall” – and the societal impacts it…
Counterterrorism Resilience: Expert Roundtables on Canadian National Security and Countering Violent Extremism
Summary: Conducted expert roundtable discussions in fall 2022 focused on the intersecting themes of 1) extremism, violence and ideology: the complexity and evolution of Ideologically…