Browsing by Author "Nesser, Petter"
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"The airliner plot" - en kort analyse av operasjonsmønster, motivasjoner og internasjonale forbindelser
Nesser, Petter (2006)Denne rapporten analyserer informasjon fra åpne kilder om terrorplanene mot fly fra London i august 2006. Vi gjør rede for hvordan terroraksjonen skulle gjennomføres, samt hva som er kjent om de mistenkte og deres nasjonale ... -
Assessing Islamic State’s Commitment to Attacking the West
Nesser, Petter; Hegghammer, Thomas (2015)How much of a terrorist threat does the Islamic State (IS) pose to Western countries? This article looks at what IS has said and done with regard to attacks in the West. We examine IS statements and take stock of IS-related ... -
Introducing the Jihadi Plots in EuropeDataset (JPED)
Nesser, Petter (2023-02-21)The article introduces a new dataset on terrorist attack activity by jihadis in Western Europe. The dataset was built over nearly two decades at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. It records not only attacks ... -
Jihad in Europe : a survey of the motivations for Sunni Islamist terrorism in post-millennium Europe
Nesser, Petter (2004)This report surveys the motivations for Sunni Islamist terrorism in post-millennium Europe. It provides in-depth case studies of four terrorist plots in Europe after 2000, attributed to Sunni Islamist militants. The ... -
Jihadi Terrorism in Europe: The IS-Effect
Nesser, Petter; Stenersen, Anne; Oftedal, Emilie (2016)The article examines the extent to which Islamic State (IS) has affected jihadi terrorism in Europe. We look at the scope of attack activity, perpetrators and their networks, modus operandi and funding. For all the talk ... -
Jihadism in Norway: a Typology of Militant Networks in a Peripheral European Country
Nesser, Petter; Lia, Brynjar (2016)Jihadism in Norway has witnessed a huge shift from consisting primarily of foreign ethnically homogenous networks with a low capacity for mobilization, to the current situation where a loose country-wide network of domestic ... -
The modus operandi of jihadi terrorists in Europe
Stenersen, Anne; Nesser, Petter (2014)This article provides the most thorough overview yet of how jihadis have plotted terrorist attacks in Europe. Drawing on a database of 122 incidents, we review trends in weapon types, attack types and target types in the ... -
Paths to global Jihad: Radicalisation and recruitment to terror networks - proceedings from a FFI seminar, Oslo, 15 March 2005
Bokhari, Laila; Hegghammer, Thomas; Lia, Brynjar; Nesser, Petter; Tønnessen, Truls H. (2006)In order to effectively combat international terrorism, government authorities need to understand the process of recruitment to violent Islamist or jihadist movements. In this report, the Transnational Radical Islamism ... -
The slaying of the Dutch filmmaker : religiously motivated violence or Islamist terrorism in the name of global jihad?
Nesser, Petter (2005)This report surveys in depth the available open source information about the ritualistic murder of the filmmaker Theo Van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam on November 2, 2004. The report makes the case that the murder of ... -
Terror mot drikkevann : en oversikt over terrorgruppers interesse for å ramme offentlig vannforsyning
Lia, Brynjar; Nesser, Petter (2003)The present report examines the terrorist threat to Norwegian water supplies. The new threat environment in the post9/11 era is explored and is followed by a global survey of nearly 50 terrorist and sabotage attacks against ... -
Terror mot jarnvegar : eit oversyn over typiske terroraksjonar mot togpassasjertransport
Lia, Brynjar; Nesser, Petter (2005)This report describes and categorizes the most typical terrorist attacks against train passengers and the passengercarrying railway systems. Compared to other parts of the civilian infrastructure, including the transportation ...