Learning Materials from the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Course — website/web application. Paul Jonathan Smith. Updated May 2017 The following three modules address counterterrorism in the United Kingdom. Tracing the UK response to violent subnational terrorism back to its efforts against the...
Lecture/presentation. Paul Jonathan Smith. Updated May 2017 Module 1. This first module considers the recent history of terrorism in the UK, radicalization amongst the UK’s Muslim Community, and the UK’s current threats from ISIS...
Lecture/presentation. Paul Jonathan Smith. Updated May 2017 Module 2. This module addresses the development of national security strategy since 2001, touching on the guiding principles behind contemporary UK counterterrorism policy, as well as the...
Lecture/presentation. Paul Jonathan Smith. Updated 2017 Module 3. This final module in the series explores the British domestic counterterrorism structure, emphasizing the importance of interagency cooperation in UK counterterrorism operations. It touches on the...
Course — website/web application. Nadav Morag. [Updated Dec 2016] Islam is a faith of richness and complexity that has manifested itself over time in a broad variety of ways. Unfortunately, it is also used...
Lecture/presentation Nadav Morag. Module 1. Dr. Nadav Morag’s introduction to Islam serves as a backdrop for his discussion of the multifaceted Jihadist threat, as depicted in later modules. The principles, origins and divisions of...
Lecture/presentation Nadav Morag. Module 2. The subject of Jihad has been highly controversial as of late for both Muslims and non-Muslims. Dr. Nadav Morag emphasizes that Islamic tradition refers to two types of Jihad,...
Lecture/presentation Nadav Morag Module 3. In Dr. Nadav Morag’s third depiction of the global Jihadi threat, he explores the historical relationship between Islamic and Western civilizations, as well as the ways in which the...
Lecture/presentation Nadav Morag Module 4. Dr. Nadav Morag focuses on the development of Islamic extremism as well as the approaches of various Muslim radicals in this fourth analysis of the Global Jihadi threat. Calling...
Lecture/presentation Nadav Morag Module 5. In the final segment of his five-part series concerning Islamic extremism, Dr. Nadav Morag depicts the role of Islam in the West, as well as several challenges relating to...
Syllabus — text. Nadav Morag, Paul Smith and Seth Jones The objectives of the NS 3028 course are: (1) to understand the transnational nature of terrorism, organized crime, pandemics and other homeland security threats,...
Video – interview. Byron Bland and Jim Breckenridge. In this two-part series, Byron Bland, Associate Director for the Stanford Center on International Conflict & Negotiation outlines the fundamental building blocks of the peace making...