Edwin Bakker
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Edwin Bakker (born 20 October 1967) is head of the knowledge and research department of the Netherlands Police Academy and professor of Terrorism Studies at Leiden University.
Biography
Bakker was born on 20 October 1967 in Leiden, in the Netherlands.Cyril Rosman, [https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/terrorisme-expert-jihadscene-nederland-intact-en-groter-dan-ooit~a0eba075/ Terrorisme-expert: Jihadscene Nederland intact en groter dan ooit], Algemeen Dagblad, 22 July 2018.
In 1997, Bakker obtained a PhD degree with his thesis on minority conflicts in Slovakia and Hungary.See E. Bakker, Minority conflicts in Slovakia and Hungary?, Capelle a/d IJssel, 1997 He graduated from Groningen University, where he studied Economic Geography.{{cn|date=April 2021}}
Before joining the Police Academy he was the director of the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism (CTC) of Leiden University Campus The Hague, and director of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs.{{cn|date=April 2021}}
From 2007 to 2011, Bakker was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’.{{cite web|url=https://www.clingendael.org/person/edwin-bakker|title=Edwin Bakker|work=Clingendael|access-date=11 April 2021|archive-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204739/http://www.clingendael.nl/person/edwin-bakker|url-status=dead}} He was head of the Security and Conflict Programme.{{cn|date=April 2021}}
Current roles
Bakker is head of the knowledge and research department of the Netherlands Police Academy and professor of Terrorism Studies at the Leiden University.{{cn|date=April 2021}}
He is also a member of the editorial board of several journals, including the Journal of Strategic Security, and Internationale Spectator.{{cn|date=April 2021}}
He {{as of|lc=yes|2021}} is the lead instructor of the MOOC " Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory and Practice"[https://www.coursera.org/learn/terrorism Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory and Practice] on Coursera.{{Cite web|url=https://www.coursera.org/instructor/edwinbakker|title=Edwin Bakker {{!}} Coursera|website=Coursera|language=en|access-date=2018-01-30}} and guest lecturer at the joint training institute of the Dutch judicial system and the Public Prosecution Service, SSR (Studiecentrum Rechtspleging), the Institute for Safety (the Instituut Fysieke Veiligheid, or IFV), as well as Leiden University's Centre for Professional Learning.{{cn|date=April 2021}}
Bakker’s research interests include radicalisation and jihadi terrorism,Edwin Bakker & Peter Grol, Nederlandse Jihadisten. Van naïve idealisten tot geharde terroristen. Amsterdam: Hollands Diep, 2017 characteristics of (jihadi) terroristsEdwin Bakker (2006). Jihadi Terrorists in Europe: Their Characteristics and the Circumstances in which They Joined the Jihad ; an Exploratory Study. Clingendael Inst. {{ISBN|978-90-5031-113-7}} dealing with (fear of) terrorismEdwin Bakker. Naar meer weerbaarheid en veerkracht in contraterrorismebeleid. Oratie Universiteit Leiden, 2012 and its policy implications,{{cite book|author=Oldrich Bures|title=Eu Counterterrorism Policy: A Paper Tiger?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0aB1CbdNCc8C&pg=PA11|accessdate=14 July 2013|date=1 March 2013|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-8923-8|pages=11–}} security issues in general, as well as the world of policing.[https://www.politieacademie.nl/actueel/Paginas/Strategische-onderzoeksagenda-legt-scherpe-focus-op-behoefte-politie.aspx Strategische onderzoeksagenda legt scherpe focus op behoefte politie] 1 July 2019
Selected publications
- {{cite book|author=Edwin Bakker|title=Minority Conflicts in Slovakia and Hungary?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjqkAAAACAAJ|accessdate=14 July 2013|year=1997|publisher=Labyrinth Publ.|isbn=978-90-72591-42-5}}
- {{cite book|author=Edwin Bakker|title=Jihadi Terrorists in Europe: Their Characteristics and the Circumstances in which They Joined the Jihad ; an Exploratory Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jp8QJwAACAAJ|accessdate=14 July 2013|year=2006|publisher=Clingendael Inst.|isbn=978-90-5031-113-7}}
- {{cite book|author1=Edwin Bakker|author2=Leen Boer|title=The evolution of Al-Qaedaism: its ideology, its terrorists, and its appeal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VwrFKAAACAAJ|accessdate=14 July 2013|year=2007|publisher=Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael|isbn=978-90-5031-122-9}}
- Rethinking European Security, Principles & Practice. Special issue of Security and Human Rights, Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, vol. 21, 2010, no. 1, [with Arie Bloed, Sabine Machl and Wolfgang Zellner]
- Preventing Lone Wolf Terrorism: some CR Approaches Addressed, Perspectives of Terrorism, Vol. V, 2011, no. 5-6 [with Beatrice de Graaf].
- The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. The challenge of transnationalization, London: Hurst Publishers, 2012, [with Roel Meijer]
- [https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/41246 Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies: Comparing Theory and Practice]. Leiden: Leiden UP, 2015
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305101115/http://campusdenhaag.nl/ctc/medewerkers/bakker.html CTC]
- [http://www.icct.nl/about/staff#EB Staff - ICCT] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914222155/http://icct.nl/about/staff#EB |date=14 September 2013 }}
- [https://www.coursera.org/instructor/edwinbakker Coursera instructor]
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Category:21st-century Dutch non-fiction writers
Category:Scholars of terrorism