Kalicharan Veera Singam is a Senior Analyst at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) at the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore. He is an RSIS scholar who has researched and taught on security, terrorism and extremism-related issues with a focus on Singapore and the South and Southeast Asian regions.

Kalicharan was an Associate Faculty and Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) where he has taught political science and security-oriented courses in the School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences (SHBS) and the Public Safety and Security (PSS) programme. Most of the courses he has taught at SUSS are for working adult students. Prior to his current roles, Kalicharan served as an assistant and researcher to Singapore Ambassador Barry Desker, when the latter was the Chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR).

He obtained his Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honours (Highest Distinction) from the National University of Singapore. An RSIS Scholar, he completed his Master of Science in Strategic Studies and earned a Certificate in Terrorism Studies from the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR).

• Terrorist Ideology
• Political Discourses on Climate Change
• Research Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches
• South and Southeast Asian Politics

Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 16 Issue 03

  12 June, 2024

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 16 Issue 01

  03 January, 2024

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 14 Issue 04

  12 August, 2022

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 14 Issue 01

  03 January, 2022

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 13 Issue 03

  02 July, 2021

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 12 Issue 05

  02 September, 2020

Commentaries

• Stabbing Incidents in Australia Reignite Low-Tech Terrorism Concerns

  22 April, 2024

• Pandemic’s Effect on Counter-Terrorism

  16 March, 2021

• CO18126 | Climate Change Scepticism: A Form of Fundamentalist Belief?

  25 July, 2018

Journal Articles

• “An Evaluation of the Islamic State’s Influence over the Abu Sayyaf” in Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 13, No. 5, 2019, pp. 90-101

Op-Eds

• “Commentary: Why would a Singaporean youth identify as a white supremacist?”, Channel News Asia, 26 January 2024
• “Commentary: As South Asia prepares to head to the polls, brace for a possibly violent election year”, Channel News Asia, 20 January 2024
• “Commentary: How Singapore can tackle the growing spectre of teen terrorism” (with Ahmad Helmi Bin Mohamad Hasbi), TodayOnline , 2 March 2023
• “Novel Coronavirus: A Political and Economic Risk Assessment”, All Asia Affairs, 8 February 2020
• “Making ASEAN Less Elitist and More Relevant to the Masses”, All Asia Affairs, 23 January 2020
• “சமுதாயத்தின் ஒற்றுமையை நிலைநிறுத்த நம்மால் முடியும் [We can Maintain Our Social Harmony]”, Tamil Murasu, 8 October 2018