Religion, Security and Strategy: an unholy trinity? Speech on issues in counter-terrorism and counter-extremism at the London School of Economics.
The uneasy relationship between the state and religion is most sharply seen in the context of security, terrorism and religious violence. Should people of faith serve government strategies on counter-terrorism?
A backward look: ten years after 9/11.
9/11 and the subsequent 7/7 attacks on London put religion at the centre of questions of national security, and the boundaries in Britain between the ‘political’ and the ‘religious’ were overthrown. Professor Gwen Griffith-Dickson gives a fascinating insight into the current relationship between the State and Muslim communities in particular. What has been the legacy of the terrorist attacks, in policy and in practice?