Universiteit Leiden (UL) • crisis and security management

Summary of lectures and readings organized by lecture and theme, is complete.

Notes on the lectures & video materials from the course (2025) Cyber Crisis Management and Resilience. INCLUDES notes from lectures 1-12 (Total: 45 pages).

Notes on the lectures from the course (2025) Security and the Rule of Law. INCLUDES notes from lectures 1-6 (Total: 23 pages).

This paper was written for the course Peace Studies: History, Theories, and Concepts for the Master of Science Crisis and Security Management, in which we had to describe and critique an episode of our choice from the International Crisis Group's podcast War and Peace. I chose the episode ‘Why Women Fight: Gender Dynamics in Insurgencies and Armies’. I got an 8.5 for the paper.

This paper was written for the course Peace Studies: History, Theories, and Concepts for the Master of Science Crisis and Security Management, in which we had to critically evaluate a peace organisation. I chose the United Nations. I got an 8.0 for the paper.

This paper was written for the Psychology of Online Behavior: Response to Violence & Crises course for the Master of Science Crisis and Security Management, in which we had to conduct a rapid systematic review via Web of Science. I chose workplace cyberbullying and its effect on adult mental health. I got an 8.3 for the paper.

This paper was written for the course Security and the Rule of Law for the Master of Science Crisis and Security Management, in which we had to choose a case where there was both a security and a rule of law tension. I got a 7.8 for this paper. The respective professors complimented me for choosing this case.

Summary of the reading materials for the course (2025) Security and the Rule of Law. INCLUDES notes from (Total: 61 pages): See * Summary List * on page 1.

Summary of the reading materials for the course (2025) Cyber Crisis Management and Resilience. INCLUDES notes from (Total: 85 pages): See * Summary List * on page 1.

The Midterm paper for the CSM course Terrorism and Counterterrorism. The topic of the paper is measuring counterterrorism success and it uses descriptive statistics and visualisation to show trends. Graded with an 7.5.

Notes on the lectures from the course (2024) Security: Actors, Institutions and Constellations. INCLUDES notes from lectures 1-7 (Total: 26 pages).

Summary of the reading materials for the course (2024) Security: Actors, Institutions and Constellations. INCLUDES notes from (Total: 97 pages): See * Summary List * on page 1. Does *NOT* include Damien Van Puyvelde & Fernando Tabarez Rienzi’s working paper (2024) “The rise of open-source intelligence”.

Summary of the reading materials for the course (2024) Cyber Conflict in International Relations. INCLUDES notes from (Total: 54 pages): See * Summary List * on page 1.

Notes on the lectures from the course (2024) Cyber Conflict in International Relations. INCLUDES notes from lectures 1-8 (Total: 30 pages).

Graded with a 9.5! This final paper for the elective course Accountability for Atrocity Crimes from the CSM program discusses the legality of the Nuremberg trials and explores the ex post facto debate from a natural versus positive law perspective

Graded with an 7.5. This document is one of the critical notes required for the Accountability for Atrocity Crimes elective of the program CSM. The note looked critically at the following report: Albanese, F. (2024). Anatomy of a Genocide: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Human Rights Council, A/HRC/5573. Main feedback: This is a good discussion of key substantive points, but the premises are not clearly dis...

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