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The foreign terrorist fighter (FTF) phenomenon is high on the agenda of Dutch law and policy makers. Fear of what FTFs might do abroad and upon return has resulted in the increased (call for) criminalization of preparatory conduct (e.g. training, recruitment) with the aim to incapacitate at the earliest possible moment through criminal prosecutions. However, which fundamental criminal law principles limit criminalizing acts, which are not in themselves harmful (e.g. travelling to Syria), but are an expression of the person’s concealed intent to commit a harmful act (e.g. a terrorist attack)? Where on the continuum from a thought to a massacre is the cut-off point that distinguishes legitimate prosecutions from premature ones? This project will provide innovative insights into anticipatory prosecutions regarding the FTF phenomenon, first, by developing a conduct typology, and second, by identifying the (legal) normative framework of justifications (e.g. prevention of harm) and limits (e.g. rule of law-values). A cross-national comparison between cases from the Netherlands – reportedly the first European country to prosecute Islamic State FTFs – and the United States – a nation that has been dealing pro-actively with terrorism issues longer than European countries – will provide the necessary building blocks to do this.

The aim of this project is to create new tools, algorithms, and software to improve the situational awareness of security analysts for ICS. The results will enable security analysts and operators to identify and mitigate threats, and the impact of cyber attacks. The final goal is to leverage and -add intelligence to- deep-packet inspection (DPI) tools to extract knowledge of an ICS and build -actionability-, that is, the ability to act upon present (or future) threats.

Our aim is to design, implement and evaluate interventions that adhere to the Cairo consensus of ensuring women’s reproductive health and sexual rights (RHSR) and the rights of the vulnerable youth and refugee populations in the north while dramatically reducing population growth in accordance with the SDGs and Jordan’s needs. We propose to do this by using a combination of culturally sensitive anthropological practices and behavioral economic approaches. A critical objective of this effort is to identify interventions that produce the desired outcomes cost-effectively, in order that these interventions may be institutionalized within Jordanian ministries and CSOs/NGOs and, therefore, more likely to be replicated throughout the country and sustained over time.

“Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery (DATAS)” (www.datasproject.org) develops an innovative method to explore African ethnonyms from the era of trans-Atlantic slavery, circa 1500-1867. Ethnonyms index African identities, places and historical events to reconstruct African culture that is linked to a history of slavery, colonialism and racism. The project centres on the need to understand the origins and trajectories of people of African descent who populated the trans-Atlantic world in the modern era. The development of a method for analysing demographic change and confronting social inequalities arising from racism constitutes a social innovation. The team’s methodology implements a research tool developed in Canada for handling ethnonyms that can be applied in a trans-Atlantic context from France and the United Kingdom to Brazil, the Caribbean and Africa. This innovation confronts methodological problems that researchers encounter in reconstructing the emergence of the African diaspora. A methodology for data justice is salient because ethnonym decision-making used in our digital platform, requires a reconceptualization of the classification systems concerning West Africans. This methodology depends on an open source relational database that addresses important decisions that researchers face in the field about how to develop best practices and a controlled vocabulary for four reasons. First, scholarly expertise on West Africans is scattered globally. Second, the slave trade was transnational, rarely limited to one country or population, and the transfer of Africans across borders reflects this global relationship between colonial and colonized. Third, DATAS makes available a vast amount of information of immense value to marginalized communities deprived of information on their own history. Fourth, the trans-Atlantic and trans-national nature of this project complements the aims of a platform predicated on global collaboration. The project treats ethnonyms as decision making tools as a method whose concepts require rethinking entrenched assumptions about demography, data justice and research transparency.