Dr. Cristina Ivan is coordinating the Security Department of the National Institute for Intelligence Studies. She has a PhD in cultural studies from the University of Bucharest, PhD School of Literary and Cultural Studies, where she has researched v
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Dr. Cristina Ivan is coordinating the Security Department of the National Institute for Intelligence Studies. She has a PhD in cultural studies from the University of Bucharest, PhD School of Literary and Cultural Studies, where she has researched violent religious extremism in cultural productions within the British discursive space (2000-2010).
Dr. Ivan has graduated along the years various courses in cultural anthropology and counterterrorism from e.g. University of Edinburgh, the Jordanian National Royal Academy etc. Over the past 10 years she has specialized in applied research of violence, radicalization and terrorism, taking part in various national and European funded projects targeting an enhanced understanding and early detection of radicalization, as well as designing both preventive and countering interventions.
Recent publications include:
- Globalised violence and self-inflicted otherness. Transforming Geographies of Difference into Maps of Sameness, Tritonic Press, Bucharest, 2017, ISBN 978-606-749-204-0
- Internet use and violent extremism: a Cyber-Vera risk assessment protocol in Combating violent extremism and radicalisation in the digital era, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, 2016, ISBN 97815225801565
- Globalised Violence and the new sites of contestation, ebook, Fear, Horror, Terror – special focus (In)Security: Production, Dissemination and Expereiences, Interdisciplinary Press, 2016, Oxford, ISBN 978-1-848888-537-0
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