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<title>CSTPV Feed</title><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/index.html</link><description>CSTPV Notices</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2009 CSTPV</dc:rights><dc:date>2010-12-07T15:21:44+00:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:24:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Cult of Secrecy - 9th December 2010&#xa;</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2010-12-07T15:21:44+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/cult-of-secrecy.php#unique-entry-id-32</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/cult-of-secrecy.php#unique-entry-id-32</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This seminar on the &lsquo;Cult of Secrecy&rsquo; will examine the uses and abuses of secrecy as illustrated by several recent events: &nbsp;the unilateral release of secret information from the United States by courts in the United Kingdom in the case of former Guantanamo detainee bin Mohammed, the series of articles in the Washington Post newspaper by Dana Priest regarding the extent of secret world in the United States, and the impact of the release of secret information on Afghanistan on the WikiLeaks website. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CSTPV Seminar - 2nd December 2010</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2010-12-01T11:07:47+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/30a63640b61dbd32c4241b3a7904143e-31.php#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/30a63640b61dbd32c4241b3a7904143e-31.php#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Due to the severe weather this seminar has been cancelled.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CSTPV Seminar Series - Room Change</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2010-10-29T09:09:47+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/cstpv-announcement-281010.php#unique-entry-id-30</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/cstpv-announcement-281010.php#unique-entry-id-30</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We are now going to be in Seminar Room 4 except for the evening of Thursday 18th November when it will remain in Seminar Room 3.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Interdicting Terrorist Networks: Extreme Risk&#x2026;a life fighting the bomb makers - 28th October 2010</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2010-10-18T13:03:07+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/interdicting-terrorist-networks.php#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/interdicting-terrorist-networks.php#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[He retired from the MOD in 2007 as the MOD&rsquo;s senior worldwide IED intelligence analyst to become a counter-IED consultant and was awarded the Queens Gallantry Medal in 2005 for his actions in Iraq the previous year; he is the author of the best-selling memoirs Eight Lives Down and Extreme Risk and is a regular contributor to the BBC and other international news stations on IED related issues; he is also a Fellow of the Institute of Explosives Engineers, a former chairman of its technical committee and a Member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Emerging Importance of Database Technologies in Terrorism Studies - 7th October 2010</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2010-10-01T10:52:46+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/importance-of-databases.php#unique-entry-id-28</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/importance-of-databases.php#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Emerging Importance of Database Technologies in Terrorism Studies]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>EU-Funded Research On Terrorism Victims</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>Research</category><dc:date>2010-09-30T10:03:22+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/31e0ec86a59e520c0ac194e7b3ed9dfb-27.php#unique-entry-id-27</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/31e0ec86a59e520c0ac194e7b3ed9dfb-27.php#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The outputs from this study will be substantial and have a tangible impact: a best practice document will be disseminated to national authorities and victims associations and a series of workshops with experts and stakeholders will be organised in Spain and UK to support knowledge transfer. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CSTPV Interns Programme</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>Internships</category><dc:date>2010-09-15T13:45:45+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/interns2010.php#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/interns2010.php#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Please refer to the school notice boards and this site for further details of any intern opportunities that may rise.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title> The role of the Police in Countering Terrorism and Extremism  - 4th May 2010</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2010-05-04T09:17:01+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/475679e2727fd1c0f91eb16dd04cb362-25.php#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/475679e2727fd1c0f91eb16dd04cb362-25.php#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[ The role of the Police in Countering Terrorism and Extremism 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>S.T.R.E.E.T. (Strategy to Reach&#x2c; Empower and Educate Teenagers) - 27th April 2010</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2010-04-27T09:23:18+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/9e1c500e0af37ee6f827fcd449e4225f-24.php#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/9e1c500e0af37ee6f827fcd449e4225f-24.php#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[(Strategy to Reach, Empower and Educate Teenagers) as a counter radicalization initiative
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Infernal Machines: Towards a History of Technology of Terrorisms - 13th April 2010</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2010-04-13T09:11:26+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/infernal-machines.php#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/infernal-machines.php#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[He currently works on three projects on the interaction between technology and terrorism: a first on how a number of international cities have developed and taken into use various technologies to cope with various man-made terror threats during the 20th century; a second project on the media construction of the bioterrorism threat 1994-2010, and third project focusing on what role technological expertise, innovation, and appropriation of played in the emergence and global spread of modern terrorism at the end of the 19th century.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Terrorism in the Criminal Courts - 23rd March 2010&#xd;</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2010-03-17T09:27:27+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/terrorism-in-the-criminal-courts.php#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/terrorism-in-the-criminal-courts.php#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[He has written extensively on terrorism issues, with many published papers not only in the UK but also in several other jurisdictions, especially the USA, where he has been a visiting professor at George Washington and Stanford Universities. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Terror Crime Prevention and Communities - 9th March 2010</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2010-03-05T13:20:16+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/terror-crime-prevention.php#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/terror-crime-prevention.php#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Since 9/11, however, this tradition has been increasingly questioned, with the notion that communities can defeat al Qaeda related or influenced terrorism having gained increasing ascendency across numerous policy, security and other contexts, both nationally and internationally. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Kidnapping: It&#x2019;s Features&#x2c; Resolution and Effects - 23rd February 2010 </title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2010-02-17T13:48:06+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/kidnapping-features-effects.php#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/kidnapping-features-effects.php#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This presentation will consider the phenomenon of kidnapping, particularly in terms of resolving hostage incidents, how individuals manage to &ldquo;survive&rdquo; psychologically, and the short and longer-term physical and psychological effects of being taken hostage, including the so-called &ldquo;Stockholm syndrome&rdquo;.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A History of Radiological Crime and Terrorism - 8th December 2009</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2009-12-08T10:04:48+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/radiological-crime-and-terrorism.php#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/radiological-crime-and-terrorism.php#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[He has participated in a number of low and high profile police investigations and provides advice to the UK police on policy, tactics and guidance for dealing with crimes involving radioactive materials.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x201c;The Exciting Challenge of Counter-Terrorism Strategy&#x201d; - 1st December 2009</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2009-12-01T13:46:45+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/exciting-challenge-of-ct.php#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/exciting-challenge-of-ct.php#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In a time span equivalent to an episode of &ldquo;Spooks&rdquo;, this seminar will seek to grapple with these issues and to explore how the instruments of counter-terrorism strategy could be enhanced. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>From Troubled Ireland to Gangland Ireland: Stretching the Security Blanket - 17th Nov 2008</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2009-11-16T14:10:38+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/from-troubled-ireland.php#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/from-troubled-ireland.php#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Vicky Conway studied at University College Cork and the University of Edinburgh before undertaking her PhD at Queen&rsquo;s University Belfast on Police Accountability in the Republic of Ireland, which paid particular attention to the impact on the Northern Irish Conflict on policing in that jurisdiction. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Terrorism Questions in Xinjiang: Contesting Western and Chinese Views - 3rd November</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2009-11-02T10:20:52+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/terrorism-questions-in-xinjiang.php#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/terrorism-questions-in-xinjiang.php#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The far-western territory of Xinjiang has been the focus of China&rsquo;s concerns about not only domestic terrorism, but also the intrusion of foreign terrorist actors, including those affiliated with Al-Qaeda, into the country.  ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>CSTPV Journal of Terrorism Research</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>Journal of Terrorism Research</category><dc:date>2009-10-28T10:47:40+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/journal-of-terrorism-research-launch.php#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/journal-of-terrorism-research-launch.php#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This journal will provide a space for academics and professionals to publish work focused on, but not limited to, the study of terrorism. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Intelligence in a Hostile Environment: how it was done in the First World War - 27th October 2009</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2009-10-26T11:12:17+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/intelligence-in-a-hostile.php#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/intelligence-in-a-hostile.php#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Janet Morgan&rsquo;s books include the four-volume edition of Richard Crossman&rsquo;s Diaries of a Cabinet Minister and Backbench Diaries, authorised biographies of Edwina Mountbatten and Agatha Christie, books about technology, constitutional reform, and technology, and The Secrets of rue St Roch, an account of an allied espionage operation in  World War 1. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Globalization(s) of the conflict in Somalia (Updated 26/1/2010)</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Conferences</category><dc:date>2010-01-26T12:14:04+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/somalia-call-for-papers.php#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/somalia-call-for-papers.php#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This conference will explore how the plurality of transnational forces is helping to shape the conflict in Somalia &ndash; and how Somalia, in turn, is bring its internal conflicts and contradictions to the world stage: from transnational organised crime to the transnational diaspora community; from international NGOs to international terrorist movement; from neo-fundamentalist Islam to neo-liberal economics. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Strategy and Ethics - Bombing Civilians from Total War to Terrorism: 13th October 2009</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2009-10-13T14:32:33+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/strategy-ethics-bombing.php#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/strategy-ethics-bombing.php#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It identifies some of the opposition to the strategy by British citizens and Allied Servicemen and it explores the arguments offered by the Church to support the targeting of civilians, alongside the strategic justifications of politicians.   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Jihadi forums on the World Wide Web - 20th October 2009</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2009-10-14T14:13:16+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/jihadi-forums-www.php#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/jihadi-forums-www.php#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the determination to understand Al Qaeda and its ideology as fundamentally alien impositions on &lsquo;true&rsquo; or &lsquo;orthodox&rsquo; interpretations of Islam, and at the same time to attribute a possibly spurious coherence to global &lsquo;jihadism&rsquo;, however, there has been a tendency to emphasise the importance of content over form, and of ideological discourse over online behaviour. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Is Terrorism a Group Phenomenon? - 6 October 2009</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2009-10-02T17:15:07+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/terrorism-a-group-phenomenon.php#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/terrorism-a-group-phenomenon.php#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[His publications include: The Future of Terrorism (with John Horgan), 2000, Terrorist Lives (with Ethel Quayle), 1994, The Fanatics: A Behavioural Approach to Political Violence, 1991 & The Terrorist, 1988.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x2018;Terrorism from a Multidisciplinary Perspective&#x2019; Workshop - 30th September 2009</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Workshops</category><dc:date>2009-09-29T10:47:20+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/terrorism-from-a-multidisciplinary-perspective.php#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/terrorism-from-a-multidisciplinary-perspective.php#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In recognition of the benefits of inter-disciplinary research, this workshop will bring together speakers from a number of Schools and Departments within the University of St Andrews to speak on the subject of terrorism from the perspective of their own discipline. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Modelling Terrorist Behaviour - 1st October 2009</title><dc:creator>tsadmin@st-andrews.ac.uk</dc:creator><category>CSTPV Seminar Series</category><dc:date>2009-09-16T10:23:59+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/Modelling_Terrorist_Behaviour.php#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/notices/files/Modelling_Terrorist_Behaviour.php#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In this seminar, Dr Margaret Wilson will illustrate her approach to studying terrorist behaviour, showing how empirical data can be used to uncover the key dimensions that distinguish between terrorist attacks, and demonstrate predictability in terrorist action that can be used to inform policy for the security services.  ]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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