International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence

<youtube size="medium" align="right" caption="About the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence">pa9GU6o18CU</youtube> The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ISCR) is a terrorism research institute based at King's College London. It is a collaboration between King's College, the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel and the Regional Center on Conflict Prevention in Jordan. It is headed by the King's College terrorism expert Peter Neumann.
==Origins, history and launch==
ISCR was launched in January 2008 but appears to have been planned at least by early 2007. Its website was registered on 16 April 2007 and it was registered as a UK company limited by guarantee (i.e. without shares) on 28 August 2007. The first press reference to ISCR is an article in The Times Higher Education Supplement on 23 November 2007. Rebecca Attwood, 'Anti-terror funds awarded', Times Higher Education Supplement, 23 November 2007; p.5 No. 1821 
ISCR's was launched at a conference in London which it called the 'First International Conference on Radicalisation and Political Violence'. The conference, which took place on 17 and 18 January 2008, attracted controversy over a month earlier when it was revealed that Avi Dichter, the former head of the Shin Bet internal security agency, had planned to attend, but that Israel's foreign and justice ministries had advised him not to in case he was arrested for alleged war crimes. Rory McCarthy, 'NewsWorld newsIsraelIsraeli minister cancels UK trip in fear of arrest', The Guardian, 7 December 2007 Dichter headed Shin Beth when it helped plan the assassination of Hamas military commander Saleh Shehada in July 2002. The operation killed Shehada's wife and nine children. Israeli avoids UK arrest threat,BBC News Online, 6th December 2007 That early report aside, the most newsworthy aspect of the event was a speech by the UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on the morning of the first day Tom Patterson, The Journal (Newcastle),17 January 2008; p.2 launching the government's new anti-terror intiative. Speaking to the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme before her speech, Smith said there were specific examples of websites that "clearly fall under the category of gratifying terrorism" and that, "There is growing evidence people may be using the internet both to spread messages and to plan specifically for terrorism." quoted in Hélène Mulholland, 'Government targets extremist websites', guardian.co.uk, 17 January 2008 The government's new initiative coincided with ISCR's first major research 'Countering Online Radicalisation', and no doubt ISCR's launch and the launch of the government's new terrorism initiative were deliberately timed.
Other keynote speakers at the event included US Senator Chuck Hagel, the Vice-President of Colombia Francisco Santos Calderon, the former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, and the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis. Several prominent terrorism experts and commentators featured as panelists including the BBC's Frank Gardner, Olivier Roy, Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation, Richard Dearlove (former head of MI6) and Daniel Benjamin of the Brookings Institution. of 'First International Conference on Radicalisation and Political Violence', <http://www.icsr.info/conference.php?id=3>, created 22 August 2009
==Structure and personnel==
thumb|150px|right|The logos of the four collaborating institutions - King's College London, the University of Pennsylvania, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and the Regional Center on Conflict Prevention.
ICSR was incorporated as a UK company limited by guarantee (i.e. without shares) on 28 August 2007. As of 28 August 2009 ISCR's website states that it is 'currently in the process of being registered as a charity in England and Wales', but is not registered with the Charity Commission. ICSR, Support ICSR, [Accessed 28 August 2009] It is headed by the King's College terrorism expert Peter Neumann, who is overseen by four academics representing each of the collaborating institutions and a small board of trustees comprising of figures from government and finance.
===Trustees===
As of 20 August 2009, the directors of International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence Ltd (essentially the organisation's trustees) were the former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell, the former Marks and Spencer executive John Sacher and the American former Wickes executive Henry Sweetbaum, Companies House Direct, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, Appointments 20 August 2009 the latter of whom is the organisation's chairman. ICSR, Governance, [Accessed 28 August 2009] 
Sweetbaum is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, ‘SWEETBAUM, Henry Alan’, Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008 which may explain his involvement. Kim Campbell is Secretary General of the Club de Madrid Club de Madrid, Structure and Organisation > Board of Directors > Kim Campbell [Accessed 28 August 2009] which organised the 'International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security' in 2005, for which ICSR's director Peter Neumann was Academic Director. see Peter Neumann page
Kim Campbell and Henry Sweetbaum were involved from the offset, whilst John Sacher was appointed on 18 January 2008 following the resignation of Stephen Barclay, Companies House Direct, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, Appointments 20 August 2009 a Chartered Accountant, financier and a governor of the London School of Economics. Like Sweetbaum, Barclay is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
===Directors===
Name 	Correspondence address 	Role 	Position 	Date of birth 	Appointed on 	Resigned on 	Nationality 	Country of residence	Occupation
Lord James Nicholas Bethell 	Kings College London, Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 2LS 	Role Active 	Director 	October 1967 	10 May 2019 	 	British 	United Kingdom 	Company Director
Avril Phaedra Douglas (Kim) Campbell	Kings College London, Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 2LS 	Role Active 	Director 	March 1947 	28 August 2007 	 	Canadian 	 	Politician
Marc William Fleischman 	Kings College London, Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 2LS 	Role Active 	Director 	December 1966 	31 October 2018 	 	American 	Switzerland 	Company Director
Sir Lawrence David Freedman 	Katie Rothman, King's College London, Icsr, Dept Of War Studies, Strand, London, England, WC2R 2LS	Role Active 	Director 	December 1948 	1 August 2015 	 	British 	United Kingdom 	Retired/Freelance Writer And Lecturer
Jeremy Michael Sacher 	Kings College London, Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 2LS 	Role Active 	Director 	September 1955	4 October 2016 	 	British 	England 	Retail Consultancy
Patricia Lorna Cullen 	59 Gresham Gardens, London, NW11 8PA 	Role Resigned	Secretary	 	28 August 2007 	1 September 2010	British 	 	
Stephen John Rickatson 	Strand Bridge House, Lower Ground Floor, 138-142 Strand, London, WC2R 1HH 	Role Resigned	Secretary	 	1 September 2010	31 July 2014 	British 	 	
Stephen John Barclay 	71 Raynham, Norfolk Crescent, London, W2 2PQ 	Role Resigned	Director 	April 1942 	28 August 2007 	15 November 2007	British 	England 	Company Director
Ambassador Omar Ghobash 	Katie Rothman, King's College London, Icsr, Dept Of War Studies, Strand, London, England, WC2R 2LS	Role Resigned	Director 	June 1971 	1 August 2015 	22 August 2017 	United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates	Diplomat
Dr Azeem Ibrahim 	Kings College London, Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 2LS 	Role Resigned	Director 	March 1976 	9 August 2016 	23 July 2018 	British 	Scotland 	Company Director
Gretchen King 	Kings College London, Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 2LS 	Role Resigned	Director 	April 1982 	31 October 2018 	2 February 2021 	American 	United Arab Emirates	Company Director
Simon John Sacher 	16 Clifton Villas, London, W9 2PH 	Role Resigned	Director 	June 1940 	18 January 2008 	30 August 2016 	British 	England 	Retired Company Director
The Hon Sir David Daniel Sieff 	Icsr, Lower Ground Floor, 138-142 Strand, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 1HH 	Role Resigned	Director 	March 1939 	7 October 2010 	7 December 2015 	British 	United Kingdom 	Company Director
Jonathan David Sieff 	King's College London, Icsr, Dept Of War Studies, Strand, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 2LS 	Role Resigned	Director 	June 1966 	18 May 2016 	12 February 2022	British 	United Kingdom 	Company Director
Henry Alan Sweetbaum 	King's College London, Icsr, Dept Of War Studies, Strand, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 2LS 	Role Resigned	Director 	November 1937 	7 December 2015 	26 May 2022 	American 	United Kingdom 	Company Director
Henry Alan Sweetbaum 	11 Park Village West, London, NW1 4AE 	Role Resigned	Director 	November 1937 	28 August 2007 	7 December 2015 	American 	United Kingdom 	Company Director
===Leadership===
*Lawrence Freedman; King’s College London 
*Boaz Ganor; Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, Israel 
*Yasar Qatarneh; Regional Center on Conflict Prevention 
*Harvey Rubin; MD, University of Pennsylvania
===Staff===
*Peter Neumann; Director 
*Debbie Berger Fox; CFO and Project Manager 
*Marilyn Carsley;Project Assistant 
*Dina Esfandiary; Project Assistant 
*Jacob Stoil; Operations Manager
*Stephen Tankel; Research Fellow
*Steve Tatham; Associate Fellow
==Funding==
Donors ranked by amounts 2008-14:Source: FoI request to Kings College.
*1	Atkin Charitable Foundation	£907,895
*2	Wolfson Family Charitable Trust	£175,000
*3	Jeremy and John Sacher Charitable Trust	£120,000
*4	Public Safety Canada	£99,763
*5	Clore Duffield Foundation	£75,000
*6	Community Security Trust/Gerald Ronson Charitable Foundation	£62,500
*7	European Union	£60,000
*8	Smith Richardson Foundation	£57,979
*9	Gerda Henkel Stiftung	£57,152
*10	START, University of Maryland	£53,133
*11	Henry and Annie Sweetbaum	£45,151
*12	Australian High Commission	£33,032
*13	UK Home Office	£31,479
*14	Daniel Peltz Trust	£30,000
*15	National Defense University	£28,973
*16	Netherlands Government	£24,707
*17	Pears Foundation	£20,000
*18	ICNC	£16,520
*19	University of Pennsylvania	£13,507
*20	Rockefeller Foundation	£13,237
*21	Rena and Sami David	£12,238
*22	David Sieff	£10,000
*23	Moss Family Charitable Trust£10,000
*24	Ahmadiyya Association	£9,000
*25	Alliance and Bernstein	£3,500
In addition there were eight redacted donations totalling £122,425.
==Contact, References and Resources==
===Contact===
:Website www.icsr.info
===Resources===
*First International Conference on Radicalisation and Political Violence
===References===
Category:Terrorism IndustryCategory:Terrorism research institutes