Should humanitarian intervention become a new legal basis for the use of interstate force? And should the Netherlands provide political support to acts of interstate force that are not based on international law? These were questions that the Dutch government considered, after the USA, the...
On the 11th of January, the activity committee of the JASON Institute for Peace and Security Studies organized its second webinar of 2021. The goal of the event was to discuss the rising tensions between the so-called ‘’last dictator of Europe’’ and his population. By...
On the 28th of January, the JASON Institute for Peace and Security Studies kicked off the new year by hosting a webinar about UN intelligence in peacekeeping missions. We first discussed UN peacekeeping in general. The second part of the webinar was dedicated to intelligence...
The COVID-19 Pandemic has changed the nature of crime. With more and more people staying at home and having to resort to online shopping, cybercrime has experienced a meteoric rise. In the sphere of online scams, social engineering is the umbrella term coined to describe...
On November 17, the JASON Institute hosted its second webinar of the academic year. This time the topic was the secret world of social engineering from a hacker’s perspective.” We talked about the relationship between COVID-19 and cybercrime; the types of cybercrime; cybercrime as a...
On the 20th of October, the JASON Institute organized its first event of the academic year. The topic of this webinar was the Islamic State. We spoke about the current state of IS, their operations, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the terrorist group....
On June 25th JASON Institute organized its very first webinar. In this webinar, the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the domain of international security were discussed. We were honored to welcome two experts in this 60 min. webinar. Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Bolder, Strategic Analyst at...
On the 27th of February, the second event of the year was organised by the Jason Institute for Peace and Security Studies. With Human Trafficking & Labour Exploitation as its subject, the scope of the event was broad, with speakers addressing current crises worldwide, but...
On the 30th of January, the activity committee of the JASON Institute for Peace and Security Studies kicked-off the new year with a hot-topic event on Bellingcat and their investigative journalism based on fact-checking and open-source intelligence. We had the pleasure to invite two guest...
On the 9th of April, the activities committee of the JASON Institute for Peace and Security Studies and the study association for BA International Studies (BASIS) organized a special lecture on the background of the border conflict between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland...