Month: November 2020
Pursuing Clear Goals in Behaviorist Treatment
In behavioral treatment, which is often applied to help resocialize offenders, including convicted terrorists, or dangerous militants, practitioners need to set goals and targets. Not…
Digest of P/CVE LinkedIn Posts, November 2020 (II/II)
The 25 most-consulted LinkedIn posts on the topic of counter-extremism by Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip, first half of November. In descending order. Since mid-2017, we…
May Counter-Terrorism Officials Fake Radicalism?
In certain covert ops, infiltrated informants can assume positions and perform actions, having entered an unconstitutional group (or in relation to persons in connection with…
Digest of P/CVE LinkedIn Posts, November 2020 (I/II)
The 25 most-consulted LinkedIn posts on the topic of counter-extremism by Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip, first half of November. In descending order. Since mid-2017, we…
Preventive Detention under the German Law
Preventive detention, a form of securitization for the time after a legal jail sentence has been served, can only be pronounced, in Germany, by court…
A Note of Caution about the Use of Force
“A state is a human community that [successfully] claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.”Max Weber The above…
RE: Calls to merge the BND and the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV)
While both the BND and the BfV deal with the prevention of terrorism, to merge the two under the Ministry of the Interior, and to…
Lone Wolves – in a Broader Sense of the Term
A number of analysts have identified a pattern behind the recent, terrorist events in France, Austria, and elsewhere. During the first months of Covid-19, there…
