RUSI has proved essential to the debate on terrorism through progressive research that analyses the way terrorist groups have tried to operate in the UK and how government can better apply itself to the threat.

Current Projects

• The phenomenon of 'home grown terrorism'
• The response of police and security to the ongoing threat
• The evolution of international terrorist groups around the world and how they operate in the UK.
• The counter-terrorist aspects of the National Security Strategy

Experts

Leading RUSI analysts in this field include Sir John Scarlett (previously the Head of MI6), Head of National Security and Resilience, Dr Tobias Feakin (former Research Fellow for the Landau Network and the Home Office) , Dr Rachel Briggs (formerly of Demos and the Risk and Security Programme at The Foreign Policy Centre), Margaret Gilmore (formerly Home Affairs Correspondent at the BBC), and Professor Michael Clarke (previously a member of the Prime Minister's National Security Forum and currently on the Strategic Advisory Panel to the Chief of Defence Staff).