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Cyberattacks are rewriting the ‘rules’ of modern warfare – we aren’t prepared for the consequences

When Israeli Defence Forces bombed a building allegedly used by Hamas computer hackers, it marked the first time that kinetic force has been used in response to a cyberattack.

Mark Leiser • 24-05-2019

Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Living in a world of give and take

We tend to respond to the taking away behaviour of terrorists and criminals in general by taking away even more from them, and focus as a result on what we do not want in our world. Yet it is important to shift our focus to what we actually do want.

Wim Bonis • 11-12-2015

Criminal Law and Criminology · Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

An Embedded Freedom of Speech

The terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo has put the freedom of speech back on the agenda. If we are serious about creating a world in which there is room for everybody, we have to rethink the content of this human right, so that it can help us forward.

Wim Bonis • 21-01-2015

Criminal Law and Criminology

Interpreting Radicalism

We often assume we understand what terrorism and radicalism mean. Our interpretations and assumptions of these concepts are at the basis of what we criminalize and condemn. However, they are not always as clear-cut as we think.

• 30-05-2012

Interdisciplinary Study of the Law

Population of Holland also “marked for death”?

Does the publication of Wilders’ book Marked for Death make the Netherlands more vulnerable to terrorist attacks? And what to do about this?

• 25-05-2012

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Cyberattacks are rewriting the ‘rules’ of modern warfare – we aren’t prepared for the consequences

Living in a world of give and take

An Embedded Freedom of Speech

Interpreting Radicalism

Population of Holland also “marked for death”?