the tamil diaspora and the liberation tigers of tamil eelam (LTTE)
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was founded on 5 May 1976 under the leadership of Velupillai Prabhakaran. Its objective was… Read More »the tamil diaspora and the liberation tigers of tamil eelam (LTTE)
A PROFILE AND MODUS OPERANDI OF HAMAS THE ARABIC ACRONYM FOR “Harakat AL-MUQAWAMA AL-ISLAMIYA” OR ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT .
Hamas grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood, a religious and political organization founded in Egypt with branches throughout the Arab world. Beginning in the late 1960s, Hamas’s founder and spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, preached and performed charitable work in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, both of which were occupied by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War.
The India Solution: Planning beyond the boats
The Manus Island and Nauru offshore detention centres are proving to be problematic for the Government of Australia. But there is an unlikely solution: a temporary safe haven processing facility in India, writes international academic and former DIBP Case Manager Richard Curzon.
Aviation Security: Singapore’s Changi International Airport
Changi International Airport is a hub in South East Asia for connections from Europe and the Middle East to Oceania, East Asia and to the Americas. It is also a target for terrorism by South East Asia Islamist extremists group Jemaah Islamiyah.
MODELLED ON MUMBAI: THE Similarities BETWEEN 13 November 2015 Paris event and Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Mumbai attack, November 2008.
The Mumbai terror attacks were a carefully planned paramilitary-intelligence operation where ten armed men paralysed India’s financial capital for 60 hours. Over 160 people – Indian nationals as well as 22 foreign nationals – were killed.
Comparing Australia’s Counter-Terrorism Strategies and Plans
Through assessment and analyses, this paper provides an evaluation of the effectiveness of Australia’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy, Plans and Policies and offers a comparison with the counterterrorism plans of two other countries.
The Papua New Guinea National Pledge
As part of Papua New Guinea’s 20th Anniversary of Independence, Richard proposed and authored The Papua New Guinea National Pledge in conjunction with Sir Joseph Tauvasa Chairman of the National Events Council of PNG.
The Indian solution: how a subcontinent strategy would save lives — and money
The Manus Island and Nauru offshore detention centres are proving to be not feasible. But there is an unlikely solution: a temporary safe haven processing facility in India.
The South Asia solution: Think beyond the boats
This week’s revelation that the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Julie Bishop has raised for discussion the subject of Cambodia accommodating refugees is beyond comprehension.
Following a professional career as a Sports Educator with extensive international experience in sports science, multi sports festival management and ceremonies and special event creation and production, Richard has now dedicated his professional time to writing and documentary production.
For over 23 years he has lived in Papua New Guinea, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India and the Middle East.
In 1991 he directed and produced the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the South Pacific Games hosted in Papua New Guinea. In 1995, Richard planned and produced Papua New Guinea’s nationwide celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Independence. In the same year he authored the Papua New Guinea National Pledge, a key element of PNG’s National Identity Act.
Following the completion of a three year assignment to plan and manage elements of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Richard lived in Pakistan where in 2004 after three years of international and regional uncertainty in the sub continent, he produced and directed the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the 9th South Asian Games in Islamabad, Pakistan.
In 2011 he accepted an Australian Government assignment at the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre in Western Australia, where he interviewed and interacted with asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq.
Richard continues research and academic pursuits at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews, Scotland and at the School of International Relations, University of Leiden, Netherlands.
He returned from Pakistan in January 2014 following pre production planning with Pakistan television station ATV for the proposed television series Cities of Pakistan. Read more about Cities of Pakistan in this website.
Richard contributes to the Taronga Conservation Society’s elephant programme and was an active participant in Taronga’s Dinosaurs in the Wild special event – November 2014 to February 2015.
