941 search results for “lethal violence” in the Public website
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Get to know Crisis and Security Management
Crises arising from terrorism, war, violence, cyber threats, and natural disasters dominate world news and make crisis and security a heavily politicised and hotly debated topic at the top of the national and global societal and governance agenda. This master Crisis and Security Management focuses on…
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Get to know Crisis and Security Management
Crises arising from terrorism, war, violence, cyber threats, and natural disasters dominate world news and make crisis and security a heavily politicised and hotly debated topic at the top of the national and global societal and governance agenda. This master Crisis and Security Management focuses on…
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Grant for research on murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands
’25 years of fatal violence’, a collaboration of dr. Marieke Liem and prof.dr.Lenneke Alink about murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands, has received a research grant by the Leiden University Fund.
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Carlotta Rigotti at Kyoto University
On Thursday 23 May, Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw, gave a guest lecture on the regulation of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) in the European Union at Kyoto University.
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Development of Quantitative Nanostructure Activity Relationship (QNAR) Models Predicting the Toxicity of Metal-based Nanoparticles to Aquatic
Describe and identify what dosimetry parameters are of importance to interpret dose-response relationships (eg., mortality, sub-lethal, growth or reproduction inhabitation, DNA damage and reactive oxygen species, etc. ) for metal-based nanoparticles? How to develop quantitative models that enable to…
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HURP: Helsinki Urban Rat Project
How humans and rats cohabit the cityscape and what consequences this has for both sides of the conflict?
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If You Encounter Strife, Return to Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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MA Specialisation Heritage and Postcolonial Studies
Objects and framings of heritage, archives, and academic knowledge production generate worldwide, fierce societal debates on the legacies of colonial violence, past injustice and present-day institutional racism. Whether bronzes from Benin, daggers from Bali, fossils from Java, photo-albums from…
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Education
The Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) offers courses at both bachelor’s and master’s level. There are also minors, online learning and courses for professionals.
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Marieke Liem on juvenile delinquents
A juvenile suspect has been apprehended for the murder of 15-year old Megan from Breda last Monday. A highly unusual situation, according to Marieke Liem, Associate Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs in The Hague. She gave an interview to Dutch newspaper AD.
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Rick Honings: the power of language
Alternative perspectives and sources of colonial literature haven’t received much attention before now. School books have long ignored the violence that accompanies colonialsm. How can we paint an honest picture?
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Projects
Staff members and affiliates of the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities are involved with a variety of digital research projects. Some of them are featured below:
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New Scientist Scientific Talent 2015: Interview with Marieke Liem
The magazine New Scientist selected 25 nominees from candidates proposed by all Dutch and Belgian universities for the New Scientist Science talent 2015 election. One of these nominees is dr. Marieke Liem, who works at the Centre for Terrorism & Counterterrorism.
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Fighting in God’s Name
This book underscores the interplay between religion and politics (local and global) in the production, escalation, management, mitigation, and resolution of conflict.
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Violence and Transformation: The Political Economy of Russia’s War against Ukraine
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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SRS seminar series: Deep history of violence and security
Seminar series
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Connecting citizens: The fused identities of Nusaybin, Turkey and Qamishle, Syria
This project explores how the populations of the historically contiguous towns of Nusaybin, Turkey and Qamishle, Syria articulate citizenship in the everyday.
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A comparative perspective on perceived legitimacy: evaluating authorities in democratic and no-democratic contexts
Does the political context (e.g., democracy vs. authoritarianism) influence what makes people perceive authorities as legitimate?
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History of Leiden University
Read on these pages all about the history of Leiden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands. The Academia Lugduna Batava was founded in 1575 and its motto is: Libertatis Praesidium ('Bastion of Freedom').
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Biographies of Radicalization: Hidden Messages of Social Change
Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a significant rise in terrorist acts and radicalized youth since the appearance of Boko Haram in 2009 and the fall of Libya in 2012. This book investigates the deeper layers of radicalization in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is situated in a larger global tendency.
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Connecting in times of duress: understanding communication and conflict in Middle Africa’s mobile margins
This research programme seeks to understand the dynamics in the relationship between social media, mobile telephony and the social fabric under duress in Africa's mobile margins. It combines studies on mobility/migration, conflict and communication in an attempt to uncover these new dynamics, which…
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Conflicts between migrants and locals in Leiden and Rotterdam, 1680-1800
Due to its economic prosperity, its policy of (relative) religious tolerance, and its large numbers of migrants, the Dutch Republic has long had a reputation of being the prime example of ‘tolerance’, especially during the seventeenth century. Although the great variety of newcomers in the Dutch Republic…
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Mayors put to the test
New book on Dutch mayors governing local order and public safety.
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Governance of radicalism, extremism and terrorism (MSc)
In the track Governance of radicalism, extremism and terrorism you will be familiarised with the academic debate regarding these contested concepts.
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European Lone Actor Terrorists Versus “Common” Homicide Offenders: An Empirical Analysis
The term “Lone Actor” has been applied to a variety of violent individuals who are thought to act out of ideological motivations using terrorist tactics.
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Annual lecture
Until 2019, LUCIS hosted one annual lecture, inviting an eminent scholar to give a large-scale lecture in one of the finer halls at Leiden University. Because of their success, we now organise four larger lectures every year, entitled LUCIS Keynotes.
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The Tragedy of the Stupid Nation
The Tragedy Of The Stupid Nation retraces three decades of political instability during which the people of the Central African Republic suffered from several waves of violence that led to the breakdown of the social cohesion between the different communities (first along ethnic, then along religious…
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Modern and Contemporary Studies (1800−Present)
This research cluster centres on regional, national, and global intersections between a variety of artistic and cultural expressions and their role in society from 1800 onwards.
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Biographies De La Radicalisation: Des Messages Cachés Du Changement Social
La radicalisation est devenue un mot désignant notre monde en couleurs négatives. Ce livre cherche à comprendre ce que c'est que la radicalisation au Sahel et aux Pays-Bas?
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Preventing Violent Extremism
This online advanced summer programme of Leiden University and ICCT focuses on the field of preventing, detecting and responding to violent extremism and gives insight in the opportunities and challenges of various approaches.
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VR Tour The Hague
Curious to know how studying in The Hague looks like? Take our VR tour through The Hague!
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Research projects
Research within COI@Leiden is clustered around two themes: sustainable justice and the courtroom as a social arena. Find out more about each of these projects by clicking on the links below.
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Admission and Application
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Crisis and Security Management at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission and application
Find out how to apply for Crisis and Security Management at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Crisis and Security Management at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Crisis and Security Management at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission and Application
Find out how you can apply for Crisis and Security Management at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide. When applying for the programme, you need to submit your preferred specialisation.
- Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
- Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
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Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
Round Table
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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Eelco van der Maat
Faculty of Humanities
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Sabine Witting
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Prison research
The Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology conducts extensive research on imprisonment. Sending a person to prison is the most severe form of punishment that can be applied in the criminal justice systems of European countries. In most countries, the number of prisoners has risen in recent decades.…
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Alternative story forms: a fresh approach to historical case material
Students taking the new bachelor’s course ‘Social Movements and Political Violence’ are about to do something new. In addition to studying textbooks and academic articles, they will actively work with multimedia materials and engage in online storytelling. Course instructor Corinna Jentzsch (Leiden…
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Fifty Shades of Stress
The challenge: Building a tool to detect chemical compounds that individually cause non-lethal stress to bacteria, but that are lethal in combination. A team of thirteen Leiden students are taking up this challenge in the annual ‘international Genetically Engineered Machine’ (iGEM) competition for applications…
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NWO grant of 350.000 for Wielstra lab
Ben Wielstra and his team have received a ENW-M-1 grant. This grant of 354.000 euros is awarded by NWO, and will enable the researchers of the Institute of Biology Leiden and Naturalis to continue their evolutionary newt research.