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How the Climate Change Threat is Shifting Australia's National Counter-Terrorism Strategy

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dc.contributor.authorMortazavigazar, Amiren
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-21T20:12:47Zen
dc.date.available2024-11-21T20:12:47Zen
dc.date.issued2023-03-08en
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we analyse how extremism and acts of terror will manifest themselves in Australia over the upcoming decades. Australia maintains a robust counter-terrorism strategy along with a comprehensive security apparatus to support that strategy. However, it is becoming apparent to the Australian intelligence community and the Australian government that the national security challenges that Australia will be facing due to climate change have been neglected over the past few years. COVID-19 restrictions demonstrated that issue-motivated extremism can fuel acts of terror and assist violent extremist organisations in their recruitment and radicalisations. In this paper, we demonstrate how climate change mitigation policies can result in issue-motivated extremism and empower violent extremist organisations which can result in acts of terror that would jeopardise Australia’s national security, therefore, we recommend that Australia’s National Intelligence apparatus broaden the issue-motivated extremism purview of terrorism by including climate change related grievances. Furthermore, we recommend amending Australia’s social cohesion and value statements to alleviate climate change related grievances and raise awareness about the threats of climate change related extremism.en
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dc.identifier.orcidMortazavigazar, Amir [0000-0002-8962-4279]en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/123644en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleHow the Climate Change Threat is Shifting Australia's National Counter-Terrorism Strategyen
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pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Techen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Veterinary Medicineen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Veterinary Medicine/Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiologyen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Graduate studentsen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Graduate students/Doctoral studentsen

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