In accordance with the mandate of the Protection and Security Advisory Group (PASAG), this report aims to identify the scientific, technological and innovation priorities for the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 7: Secure societies – protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens....

Policy attention to the security industry increased substantially after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11th, 2001. With an increased demand for security, the global security market grew a tenfold to around €100 billion in 2011. Many studies expect that growth of the worldwide...

The European Union (EU) recognises the need to address the threat of terrorism, and further develop cooperation within both its neighbourhood and external regions to prevent or counter violent extremism (P/CVE). The EU’s Counter-Terrorism (CT) Strategy comprises four pillars – Prevent,...

In recent times, camera surveillance or closed-circuit television (CCTV) as an instrument potentially deterring crime and terrorism has become a focus of the public discourse. CCTV might be the most rapidly spreading and, at the same time, one of the most disputed measures of contemporary public...

This report assesses the literature on the inter-relations between the economy and security with particular focus on terrorism and the "human drivers of insecurity" to identify both available knowledge and crucial research gaps. In addition, the report surveys the European research capacity in...

This paper attempts to develop a theoretical assessment of how radicalization is reached. For this purpose, a Dynamic Model is proposed that accounts for the interaction between an individual's motivations and the determining factors of the surrounding context. It is a process-tracing analysis...

It is difficult to reach scientific agreement on concepts and explanations of the phenomenon of terrorism. One reason may be the diversity of terrorist acts, another is certainly the imprecise and careless use of the term. The struggle for a conceptual framing of the phenomenon of terrorism and...