CENS - WISI WORKSHOP ON
RADICALIZATION AND DE-RADICALIZATION:
GLOBAL LESSONS LEARNED
2-3 November 2009
Marina Mandarin Hotel, Taurus Ballroom, Level 1

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Kamarulnizam Abdullah, Lecturer, Strategic Studies and International Relations Programme, Centre for History, Politics and Strategic Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Mohd Kamarulnizam Abdullah(nizam@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my) is Associate Professor at the Strategic and International Relations, School of History, Politics, and Strategic Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University Kebangsaan (National) Malaysia (UKM).

He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Certificate in International Relations from University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States; MA in International Relations from the Australian National University( ANU), Canberra, Australia, and Ph.D. in Politics from the Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

Nizam’s main research area is on Political Violence, Religious Militancy, and National Security issues pertinent to Malaysia and the Southeast Asia region. He has presented numerous papers in domestic and international conferences and seminars. His publications among others include:

• “Managing the Threats of Muslim Radicalism in the Post - September 11 Incidents”, in Malaysia-Singapore Relations in a Globalised Era, edited by Takashi Shirashi, Singapore: ISEAS, 2009
• Ethno-religious Conflict and Security in Southeast Asia”, in India and ASEAN: Non-Traditional Security Threats. Edited by V.R. Rghavan. Chennai: (EastWest Books (Madras) Pvt. Ltd., 2007)
• “Southeast Asian Security Challenges: A Strategic View from ASEAN”. In ASEAN-Korean Relations: Security, Trade and Community Building, Edited by Ho Khai Leong. Singapore: ISEAS, 2007
• “Trends, Problems and Challenges in Managing Piracy Threats in Straits of Melaka”. Journal of International Studies, Vol. 3 (June), pp. 33-48. 2006
• “Managing Islamic Militancy in Malaysia”, in Understanding and Managing Militant Movements in Southeast Asia, edited by Kamarulzaman Askandar, Penang: Southeast Asia Conflict Studies Network, 2005
• “Islamic Militancy in Malaysia” in The Making of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Southeast Asia: Cases and Resolutions, edited by Lambang Trijuno, Yogyakarta: Center for Security and Peace Studies, Gadjah Mada University, 2004:257-276
• The Politics of Islam in Contemporary Malaysia , Penerbit UKM, Bangi, 2003

He is currently a team leader for regional research funded by the ASEAN secretariat on Public Reponses to and Understanding of Terrorism. His other research experiences include team leader for Malaysia’ threat perception on Asia-Pacific; Malaysia’s (IRPA) and associate research member on Islamic Education and Policy Impact in Southeast Asia; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). He was a Visiting Lecturer/Professor at several institution/universities in Indonesia such as the Muhammadiyah University and Universitas Pembangunan Nasional in Indonesia. He is also currently an editorial member for the Australasian Journal of Human Security ( Australia).

Rommel Banlaoi, Chairman of Board and Executive Director, Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research

Rommel C. Banlaoi is the Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR), a non-government policy-oriented think tank. Prior to this position, he was a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP) while serving as NDCP Vice President and consultant at the Department of National Defense. He is currently the Chairman of the Council for Asian Terrorism Research (CATR) and a Senior Fellow at the Yuchengco Center of De La Salle University (DLSU) where he held an appointment as Assistant Professor of International Studies. He was a University Research Associate at the University of the Philippines where he finished his BA and MA in Political Science and took his PhD in Political Science (ABD status). He lectures at the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

Rommel has to his credit various international publications in reputable academic journals and edited books. His recent publications include Philippine Security in the Age of Terror: National, Regional and Global Challenges in the Post-9/11 World (CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, 2009), Counter Terrorism Measures in Southeast Asia: How Effective Are They? ( Yuchengco Center, 2009) and War on Terrorism in Southeast Asia (Rex Book Store International, 2004).

Rachel Briggs , Senior Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, United Kingdom

Rachel Briggs is a Senior Research Fellow in the National Security and Resilience Department at RUSI (Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies).

Rachel works on radicalisation, preventing extremism, community tensions, community cohesion and human security. She combines her work at RUSI with a number of other appointments, including as a Senior Associate at the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo) and a Senior Honorary Research Associate at UCL. She is also part-time Director of the charity, Hostage UK, which is chaired by Terry Waite.

She is currently working on three major pieces of research. First, she is running a project for the UK Government looking at ways to prevent violent extremism in higher and further education institutes. Second, she is part of a team exploring how experiences in other parts of the world, such as the Middle East and South Asia, may translate into the British context and help to create an international benchmark for academic research. Third, she is running a piece of research exploring community resilience within white working class communities in the UK in the light of the rise of the far right.

Rachel was formerly Head of International Strategy and Head of the Identity Programme at Demos, and before that ran the Risk and Security Programme at The Foreign Policy Centre. She writes and comments regularly in the press, and has advised a number of companies and Government departments over the past decade or so. She is on the editorial board of the journal Renewal, is a member of the Advisory Board of Wilton Park (an executive agency of the FCO), is on the Council of the Risk and Security Management Forum, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Glasshouse Forum.

Sarah Connolly, Head of the Counter- Terrorism Research Group in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom

Sarah Connolly was appointed as Head of the Counter-Terrorism Research Group in December 2007. The role of which is to provide policy makers in the FCO with expert advice on international terrorism, challenging ideas and preconceptions and engage with external expertise in order to help build effective policy. Since joining the FCO as an international terrorism analyst in 2004, Sarah has specialised in radicalisation, counter and de-radicalisation. She has worked on a series of projects including radicalisation in Pakistan, radicalisation processes in the west and comparative work on counter-terrorism legislation. In addition, Sarah has been involved in commissioning and managing a number of research projects; most notably acting FCO’s project manager for a £2.6m project looking at the radicalisation trends across the globe. Prior to joining the FCO, Sarah spent two years at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, lecturing in modern American history and continuing to research terrorism and low-level conflict. In 2002 Sarah completed a graduate degree in Human Rights, in which she specialised in human rights protection and counter-terrorism, writing her thesis on the strategic advantage of protecting human rights in the War on Terrorism.

Bill Durodie, Senior Fellow and Co-ordinator of the Homeland Defence Programme in the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), RSIS, NTU, Singapore

Bill Durodié is Senior Fellow and Co-ordinator of the Homeland Defence Programme in the Centre of Excellence for National Security at RSIS. He is also an Associate Fellow in the International Security Programme of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research of the University of Kent. Previously he was Senior Lecturer in Risk and Corporate Security in the Resilience Centre of Cranfield University, part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, and Director of the International Centre for Security Analysis in the War Studies Group of King’s College London.

Durodié was educated at Imperial College, the London School of Economics and New College Oxford. He was also awarded a PhD by Public Works from Middlesex University. His main research interest is into the causes and consequences of our contemporary consciousness of risk, as well as the limitations of risk management in addressing social perceptions of threat. He featured in the BAFTA award-winning BBC documentary series, The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.

Recent magazine and newspaper articles include, Securing Electricity: Blackout (The World Today, Aug/Sep 2008), and China’s helpful role in the New World Order (China Daily, 23 July 2008), whilst recent journal publications include, Fear and Terror in a Post-Political Age (Government & Opposition, July 2007), and Risk and the Social Construction of ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, April 2006). He is currently working on a book, Politics without Purpose: The Rise of Risk Management and the Death of Social Consciousness to be published jointly through Hurst & Co. in London and Columbia University Press in the US.

Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Jonathan Githens-Mazer’s research interests include radicalisation, theories of ethnicity and nationalism, and the role of national identity in radical and/or violent political mobilisation. This includes the examination of how myths, memories and symbols of the nation can form a popular basis for radical nationalism in cases which were previously defined by a predominant popular commitment to moderate and/or constitutional nationalism. His publications have examined this process in the Irish context (1916), the Algerian context (20th century), and he is currently examining how similar processes may underpin radicalisation amongst North African immigrants living in Europe. As a function of this research, he is also more broadly interested in understanding the role of myths, memories and symbols in processes of micro- and macro- mobilisation, and more broadly the interplay between cultural identity and political behaviour, particularly the interface between collective identity and individual participation in radical violent action.

Phil Gurski, Senior Analyst at Canadian Department of Public Safety

Phil Gurski is a senior strategic analyst with the Canadian Department of Public Safety. He specializes in Islamist extremism and homegrown radicalization. Mr. Gurski has over 26 years experience in these fields for the Canadian government.

Martin Harrow, Research Fellow, Danish Institute for International Studies

Martin Harrow is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. His expertise lies in the issues of Militant Islamism; Terrorism, Counter terrorism; complexity, violence, and social movements. He is currently exploring the relation between transnational militant Islamism and local militant Islamist actors.

Mohammad Feisal Hassan, Secretariat, Religious Rehabilitation Group (RRG), Singapore

Mohamed Feisal is a senior analyst at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is also a member of the Religious Rehabilitation Group (RRG).

As a member of the RRG Secretariat and a Religious Rehabilitation Counselor, his professional interests are in areas of rehabilitation, counter-ideology, and prison radicalization. He has presented widely on these issues including in the US, UK, Netherlands, Singapore, Malaysia and others. In addition to Singapore, he has visited detainee centres in Southern Thailand and Philippines to conduct field work.

He graduated from the International Islamic University Malaysia with an Honors Degree in Philosophy. He obtained his Master of Arts Degree in Islamic Thought from the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), IIUM. His thesis is entitled "Relevance of al-Ghazali's Doctrine of Al-Wasat (The Desired Balanced Middle Way) in Countering The Ideologies of Extremists with Special Reference to the Jemaah Islamiyyah in Singapore". He also served as a Board Member at the Khadijah Mosque in Singapore

Tito Karnavian, Head of Intelligence, Detachment 88, Indonesia National Police

Muhammad Tito Karnavian is a Senior Superintendent of Indonesia National Police. He graduated from Indonesia National Police in 1987 and has since then worked mostly as a CID officer in Jakarta. He has investigated terrorist cases in Indonesia since 2000 including the bombings against the Philippines Ambassador in Jakarta in 2000, the 2000 simultaneous Christmas Eve attacks, the 2002 Makassar bombings, the Bali bombings, the 2003 JW Marriott bombing and many others. In the period of 2005-2007 he led an operation in the ex-sectarian conflict area of Poso, Central Sulawesi in which almost 75 terrorists were arrested and prosecuted. That includes the revelation of the shocking case of 3 schoolgirls’ decapitations. Tito is one of senior members of Detachment 88 – the Indonesian elite unit for countering terrorism – and the Indonesian Bombing Task Force. His role has enabled him to interview more than 500 individuals connected to terrorist network, including that of the notorious al Jamaah al Islamiyyah. In the academic field, Tito holds a master degree in Police Studies from Exeter University, UK. He has also pursued a doctoral degree since 2008 at the Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.

Robert Lambert, Research Fellow, University of Exeter , United Kingdom

For the bulk of his police service (1977-2007) Robert worked in counter-terrorism, gaining operational experience of all forms of violent political threats to the UK, from Irish republican to the many strands of international terrorism that include what may now best be described as the al-Qaida movement. One common denominator in all the many and varied terrorist recruitment strategies he witnessed over the years is the exploitation of a sense of political injustice amongst susceptible youth. Throughout his police career Robert placed value on street or grass roots perspectives over more rigid top down security approaches to counter-terrorism.

In January 2002, together with a colleague Robert set up the Muslim Contact Unit (MCU), with the purpose of establishing partnerships with Muslim community leaders both equipped and located to help tackle the spread of al-Qaida propaganda in London. This role enabled him to participate in some pioneering and successful counter-terrorism community engagement projects. It also provided Robert with opportunities to support Muslim community groups when they have faced Islamophobic attacks. In recognition he was presented with the first ‘Friends of Islam’ Award by Dr. Abdul Bari, chairman of the Muslim Council of Britain, at the annual Global, Peace and Unity event in November 2007. He was also presented with awards by the Islamic Human Rights Commission and Islam Expo. In June 2008 he was awarded an MBE for his police service.

In October 2005 Robert embarked on a parallel academic project, researching key aspects of MCU partnership experience, for a PhD at the University of Exeter (due for completion 2009). This follows a recent path of mixed practitioner / academic activity: in 2004 he was awarded a distinction for his MA dissertation on early modern English encounters with Islam at Birkbeck College, University of London; and in 2002, 1 st class honours for an inter-disciplinary European cultural history BA at the Open University.

Peter Neumann, Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, United Kingdom

Peter Neumann is the Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. Prior to this appointment, he was Director of the Centre for Defence Studies (2005-2007) at King's College London, and Content Director of the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security (2004-2005) organized by the Club de Madrid, the association of former Presidents and Prime Ministers.

Dr. Neumann is the co-author of The Strategy of Terrorism (Routledge 2008) and has recently published an Adelphi Paper titled 'Joining Al Qaeda: Jihadist Recruitment in Europe' (IISS, 2009). Previous publications include Britain's Long War (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003), a comprehensive assessment of British strategy in the Northern Ireland conflict, as well as numerous articles on terrorism and radicalization in journals like Survival, Foreign Affairs, Orbis, and Terrorism and Political Violence.

His latest book - Old and New Terrorism - was published by Polity Press in July 2009. Opinion pieces and shorter analyes have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Prospect and other magazines and newspapers. Dr. Neumann frequently appears on radio and television as an expert on terrorism and political violence.

Dr. Neumann is a senior lecturer in War Studies at King's College London and teaches classes on terrorism, insurgency, radicalization, and intelligence. He is Co-Director of the newly created Master's Programme in Terrorism, Security and Society. 

Dr. Neumann went to university in Berlin, Belfast and London. He received an MA in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin and a PhD in War Studies from King's College London.

Dr. Neumann is a member of the Club de Madrid's expert advisory council, as well as of the editorial boards of the journals Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and Democracy and Security. He is an Affiliate of the European Commission's European Network of Experts on Radicalisation, serves as a member of the German Federal Criminal Office's (BKA) European Expert Network on Terrorism Issues, and is associated with several other institutions and think-tanks.

Before becoming an academic, he worked as a radio journalist in Germany.

Ben O’Loughlin, Reader, International Relations Royal Holloway, University of London

Ben O'Loughlin joined the Department in September 2006, having previously been in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London and a researcher on the ESRC project Shifting Securities: News Cultures Before and Beyond the Iraq War.

Ben specialises in international political communication. He is co-investigator of the ESRC-funded project, Legitimising the Discourses of Radicalisation: Political Violence in the New Media Ecology. He was recently a researcher on the ESRC project Shifting Securities: News Cultures Before and Beyond the Iraq War, part of the New Security Programme. Ben is a founding Editor of the new journal, Media, War and Conflict (Sage, from April 2008). His various projects are together at www.newmediaecology.net. This work on media and security is part of a broader interest in understanding the role and influence of political ideas, the translation and adaptation of ideas across different groups of actors and institutions, and the ways in which social and political life is becoming not so much mediated as mediatized.

Ben is co-convenor of the International Studies Association (ISA) workshop, ‘Great Powers after the Bush Presidency: Interests, Strategies and Narratives’. The workshop will take place on 14 February 2009 in New York City prior to the ISA Annual Convention, to be followed up at New Orleans at ISA 2010.

Ben is an Associate Member of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at The Open University and the Centre for Memory Studies at the University of Warwick. He also works with the Widening Participation Unit at Royal Holloway.

Ben has presented research to the No. 10 Policy Unit, Home Office, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, OFCOM, the European Commission and European Broadcasting Union (EBU). He has contributed to the New York Times, Sky News and Newsweek.

Don Pathan, Regional News Editor, The Nation, Thailand

Don Pathan is the editor of the regional desk at The Nation newspaper in Bangkok, Thailand. Mr. Pathan has been covering Southeast Asia since 1994, focusing on international relations, transnational crime, drugs and insurgencies in Burma and separatist movements in Thailand's Muslim-majority south. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1993 with a BA in History and Middle Eastern Studies.

Marisa L. Porges, International Affairs Fellow in Residence, Council on Foreign Relations, USA

Marisa L. Porges is an international affairs fellow in residence at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her research focuses on counter radicalization strategies and efforts to deradicalize violent extremists. Ms. Porges was most recently a policy adviser in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she developed strategies to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and criminal and illicit activities at home and abroad. In that capacity, she also worked on counterterrorism initiatives with the Department of Defense and served on the U.S. Central Command assessment team. Prior to joining Treasury, Ms. Porges worked for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as an adviser in the Office of Detainee Affairs. Her responsibilities included negotiating with foreign governments on detention issues and coordinating U.S. government efforts to repatriate detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Afghanistan. She is also a commissioned naval officer and winged naval flight officer, having served on active duty flying the Navy's EA-6B Prowler and deploying aboard the USS Lincoln during Operation Unified Assistance. Ms. Porges received her BA, with honors, in geophysics from Harvard University and an MSc, with distinction, in government from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kevin Tan Yew Lee, Adjunct Professor, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), NTU, Singapore

Kevin was born and educated in Singapore. He graduated with LLB (Hons) from the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore in 1986 and joined the teaching staff of the same faculty that same year. Subsequently obtained his LLM (Masters of Law) and JSD (Doctor in the Science of Law) at Yale Law School. From 1986 to 2000, he taught at the Law Faculty, specializing in Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law and Government, Law and Society and International Human Rights. He resigned as Associate Professor in 2000 to start his own consultancy. Beyond his university duties, he has been active in many organisations, serving as National Programme Commissioner in the Singapore Scout Association (1992-95); Council Member of the National Youth Achievement Award Council (since 1998), Singapore Red Cross Society (since 1999), CSCAP (since 1998), Board Member of the Preservation of Monuments Board (since 1998), Singapore Academy of Law Legal Heritage Committee (since 1999), and Executive Director of the Society of International Law, Singapore (1998-2003); Treasurer and then President of the Roundtable, a non-partisan political discussion group (1999-2002).

He has published widely in his areas of specialization and his Constitutional Law in Malaysia and Singapore is the standard casebook in use in Malaysia and Singapore. He is author/editor of Managing Political Change in Singapore: The Elected Presidency (Routledge, 1997); Lee's Lieutenants: Singapore's Old Guard (Allen & Unwin, 1999) (both with Lam Peng Er); The Singapore Legal System (Singapore University Press, 1999); Scouting in Singapore: 1910-2000 (Singapore Scout Association/National Archives, 2002) (with Wan Meng Hao); Essays in Singapore Legal History (Marshall-Cavendish Academic, 2004); Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys (Brownsea, 2004); and Introduction to Singapore's Constitution (Talisman, 2005). From 1998-2000, he was also Chief Editor of the Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law and from 2000-2003 was the journal's Adjunct Editor. He is currently a director of Equilibrium Consulting Pte Ltd, President of the Singapore Heritage Society, and Chairman of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA).

Moderator:

Kumar Ramakrishna, Head, Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), RSIS, NTU, Singapore

Kumar Ramakrishna is Associate Professor and Head of the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore. He was Head (Studies) of the School from 2003-2006. He obtained a First Class (Honors) in Political Science from the National University of Singapore in 1989 and a Masters in Defence Studies from the University of New South Wales in 1992. He went on to secure his PhD in History from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, in 1999. His current research interests include British propaganda in the Malayan Emergency; propaganda theory and practice; history of strategic thought; and counter-terrorism with a focus on radicalization. He was an Asia Foundation (US) Freeman Fellow in June 2002 and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., from April to June 2003. He was also an Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Special Visitor in March 2003. In 2008 he was appointed as a Senior Advisor to the Trusted Information Network on Extremism and Transnational Crime in Southeast Asia and Australia, a joint project of The Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C., and The Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney, Australia.

Ramakrishna has been a frequent speaker on counter-terrorism before local and international audiences, a regular media commentator on the issue – most recently on the Mas Selamat Kastari affair - and published in numerous internationally refereed journals. He has co-edited two well-received books on counter-terrorism, The New Terrorism: Anatomy, Trends and Counter-Strategies (2002) as well as After Bali:The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia (2004). His major book, Emergency Propaganda: The Winning of Malayan Hearts and Minds, 1948-1958, (2002) was described by the International History Review as “required reading for historians of Malaya, and for those whose task is to counter insurgents, guerrillas, and terrorists”. His edited volume, Freedom News: The Untold Story of the Communist Underground Publication, was published by RSIS, with the co-operation of the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs, in 2008. His most recent book is Radical Pathways: Understanding Muslim Radicalization in Indonesia, which was published by Praeger Security International in April 2009.

He is a member of the Singapore Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) Resource Panel on Home Affairs and Law; member of the Board of Trustees, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, member of the Board of Governors of the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) Academy, and Executive Committee Member of the Political Science Association (Singapore). Most recently he was inducted into the Executive Board of the Council for Asian Terrorism Research, a US-led, 12-country network of think tanks and research institutions engaged in terrorism and transnational threats research.

Norman Vasu , Deputy Head, Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), RSIS, NTU, Singapore

Norman Vasu is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Head of the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He obtained a MA from the University of Glasgow in 1998 and a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1999. In 2004, Dr Vasu received his doctorate in International Politics from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth.

Prior to his current role at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, he was a tutor at the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth from 2000-2002. At the same University he was a lecturer on International Relations for the Centre for Widening Participation and Social Inclusion from 2002-2004. Dr Vasu was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from April 2005 – March 06.

Dr Vasu has authored How Diasporic Peoples Maintain their Identity in Multicultural Societies: Chinese, Africans, and Jews (2008) and edited Social Resilience in Singapore: Reflections from the London Bombings (2007). He has published widely in journals such as Asian Ethnicity, The Kantian Review and Jane’s Homeland and Security Monitor as well as writing for several newspapers on topics surrounding multiculturalism, national security and social resilience. His current research interests include the theories and practice of multiculturalism, transnational communities and nationalism.