Universiteit Leiden (UL) • crisis and security management

This document contains all lecture notes, excluding lecture 5, for the elective course Accountability for Atrocity Crimes from the CSM program.

Document including all lecture notes, excluding lecture 3 which was a guest lecture, for the course Social Movements and Political Violence from the CSM program

Graded with a 7.0. This final paper for the course State of Art and its Discontents from the CSM program discusses the issues of defining terrorism and the implications of this definitional debate on policy practices. Main feedback: This essay considers the definitional debates in terrorism studies, particularly considering the implications these have for practice. A clear thesis statement is present, as is a very brief framework. The methodology is concise and straightforward, though it...

A document containing many notes from the lectures of the course State of Art and its Discontents from the CSM program. There is a handful of lectures missing, but the document also contains some extra advise on how to tackle the final paper

This document includes an extensive and complete overview of all lecture notes for the course Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Governing Wicked Problems, from the CSM program, including graphs and pictures.

Graded with an 8.3. This final paper for the course TCT Governing Wicked Problems from the CSM program analyses based on a future scenario, the risks and benefits of conducting targeted strikes against the TTP, applying the Batelle Approach. When written, this paper was one of the select few that received a high passing grade and was no resit. Main feedback: Well done in providing a clear overview of various facets related to the group & its characteristics. However, it would have been good...

Graded with a 7.1. This final paper for the SRoL course from the CSM program is titled: Are the sick hiding the enemies? Why Israel’s hospital bombings are violating the Rule of Law. It highlights the tensions between adhering to the Rule of Law and the use of force. Main feedback: Make a better distinction between the dilemma and the synthesis. That will also help in making a difference between a description of what is happening and your own analysis based on academic literature and theor...

A document containing all lecture notes for the course Security and the Rule of Law, excluding lecture 3. The document also contains summaries of the following course literature: Waldron (2023), Sanders (2018), Wilmhurst (2021), Mavronicola (2021)

Lecture notes of lectures 2, 3, and 6 for the course SAIC

Graded with a 7.6. Final paper for the course SAIC from the CSM program. This paper is a SWOC/T Analysis Of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Main feedback: multiple missed opportunities to engage with course literature