Radices

Radices

Radices, the interdisciplinary scientific journal, is the result of collaboration between public security services and the academic world.

Description

Each year, the journal Radices collects interdisciplinary academic/scientific research on topics related to security (terrorism, extremism, radicalisation processes, polarisation, etc.).
CUTA makes this research available online free of charge in order to reach a wider audience with a view to open access research.
In order to implement effective and proportionate security policies, it is essential to share existing expertise and base multidisciplinary collaboration on proven and accurate methods.
Radices invites its readers (and authors) to look beyond their own disciplines, share their ideas and search together for the ‘roots’ of security problems.

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Editions

There is one edition per year. Articles are published in French, Dutch, German or English and cover a variety of topics.

Edition 1 – 2021

This first edition includes articles on the rights of the Belgian FTF children, on systems for preventing violent extremism in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, on martyrdom in the 16th century and on the trafficking of works of art to finance terrorist organisations.

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Edition 2 – 2022

This second edition includes articles on the legal and regulatory framework for combating terrorist propaganda disseminated via social media, the threat posed by the antivax movement, terrorism in Belgian criminal law, penalties imposed on FTF’s, a theoretical analysis of right-wing extremism, polarisation in Belgium and the United States, the past traumas of Chinese nationalism, an examination of the psychological and ideological motives of terrorists, and the difficult balance between privacy and security.

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Edition 3 – 2023

This third edition includes articles on the local prevention approach, right-wing extremism and the far right, jihadism in Mali, and the war in Ukraine.

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Edition 4 – 2024-2025

In this edition, readers will find analyses of separatism in Kazakhstan, the situation in Israel, federalism in times of crisis, gamification and conspiracy theories on Telegram.

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The drafting committee:

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Wim Hardyns is a professor in the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law at Ghent University. As a member of the Institute for Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), he studies criminal phenomena such as sports-related crime, violent youth groups, radicalisation and terrorism. In addition, Wim Hardyns has extensive expertise in everything related to criminological methods and techniques, big data, new security technologies, social cohesion and feelings of insecurity.

Maarten Danckaert studied international politics and Conflict & Development at Ghent University. Before joining the Centre for Security and Defence Studies (CSDS) at the Royal Higher Institute for Defence (RHID) as deputy director, he worked at the University of Oslo and the KU Leuven, among others.

Christophe Busch holds a Master’s degree in Criminological Sciences (Ghent University) and a Master’s degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (University of Amsterdam). After studying criminology in Ghent, he started working as a criminologist in 2001 in the newly established forensic psychiatric institutions for the treatment of medium-risk offenders. He was then responsible for developing the forensic care circuit in Zelzate as coordinator. At the end of 2012, he was hired at Kazerne Dossin, a memorial, museum and research centre on the Holocaust and human rights, where he was appointed operational director in January 2013 and managing director in July 2016. In 2020, he was appointed director of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Citizenship, Urbanity and Diversity. He completed a PhD at the University of Amsterdam, with a thesis entitled “Picturing Perpetration: the Holocaust seen ‘through the image as message’”. It dealt with imagery in the processes governing the behaviour of perpetrators of crimes. He is involved as an expert on radicalisation and polarisation in various public services.

Prof. Leistedt is a doctor specialising in forensic psychiatry, and in particular in violent crime, sexual crime and extreme behaviour such as terrorism. He has assessed Patrick Derochette, Marc Dutroux and Mohamed Abrini, among others. He works as a legal expert and teaches at the Free University of Brussels and the University of Mons. He shares his knowledge through numerous articles, books and lectures.

CUTA is represented in the drafting committee. Members of the Outreach Programme and analysts and experts in the field also supervise the writing and composition of Radices.