Professor Andrew Silke - Terrorism and the Climate Crisis

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Episode #002 - Professor Andrew Silke - Terrorism and the Climate Crisis.
Professor Andrew Silke has recently joined the Department of Law & Criminology at Royal Holloway University of London. Prior to this he held a Chair in Terrorism, Risk and Resilience at Cranfield University. He has a background in forensic psychology and criminology and has worked both in academia and for government. He is internationally recognised as a leading expert on terrorism and low intensity conflict. He has a wide range of publications including several books, with his most recent including A Research Agenda for Terrorism Studies (2023) and The Routledge Handbook on Terrorism and Counterterrorism (2019). In 2022 he guest edited a special issue on Climate Change & Terrorism for the leading research journal Terrorism & Political Violence.
In this episode we talk through some of the following themes: How Climate Change is the fifth geo-political driver of terrorism, links between climate change and terrorism in the Middle East and Africa' links between climate change, migration and terrorism; the threat from Eco-Fascism, environmental activism and terrorism in the UK, the likelihood of environmental terrorism in the UK, and more.

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• To read the 2022 UN report on meeting the 1.5 degree target set out in the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement please see Emissions Gap Report 2022 (unep.org).
• To read the 'Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism' academic submission by Professor Andrew Silke and Professor John Morrison please see Full article: Gathering Storm: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change and Terrorism (tandfonline.com).

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Hoofdstukken

1. Podcast Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Guest Expert Introduction (00:00:31)

3. Theory Linking Climate Change and Terrorism (00:01:54)

4. What Does the 'Fifth Wave' Look Like in Practice? (00:04:51)

5. Impact of Climate Change on Terrorism in the Global South (00:09:24)

6. Is Climate Change Already Driving European Migration? (00:14:06)

7. Is Climate Disaster Inevitable? (00:15:27)

8. Eco Protest and Terrorism in the UK (00:17:49)

9. How Likely is an Eco Terrorism Event in the UK? (00:26:06)

10. Non-Violence to Violence (00:31:52)

11. Environmental Terrorist Attack Methodologies and Target Selection (00:39:09)

12. Do People Care About Environmental Related Terrorism Threat? (00:41:05)

13. Signing Off With Professor Andrew Silke (00:43:41)

14. Pool Re Outro (00:44:08)