Alexander von Rosenbach
Alexander von Rosenbach is Operations Manager at ICCT. Before joining ICCT, he worked as a Senior Technology Analyst & Project Manager for a New York City startup, managing enterprise-level business processes and technology solutions. He also worked for five years at Jane’s, a London-based open-source intelligence provider to militaries, governments, intelligence agencies and industry. There, he led a team of analysts and researchers assessing military capabilities and threats around the world.
As Operations Manager, Alexander brings more than 10 years of commercial and security experience to bear on ICCT strategy, finance, staffing and organizational design. He holds a Master’s degree in International History from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.
This paper synthesises research on post-incident communications from a range of fields – including terrorism, crisis communications, mass-shooter incidents, serial offenders, and suicide studies – to identify guidelines for the development of a post-terrorist incident communications framework. Key Findings and Recommendations Terrorism is fundamentally a type of violent communication designed to influence audiences broader than […]
This paper aims to provide practitioners and academics with an empirical approach for assessing the current state and future directions of the Salafi-Jihadi Movement’s (SJM) member organisations. Making use of available data, it taps into the Islamic State’s (IS) and al-Qaeda’s (AQ) strategic priorities. Then, the article maps and examines various strategies of the broader […]
Introduction On 10 June, twelve French and two Dutch orphans of Islamic State fighters were repatriated from Syria to France. This followed the earlier repatriation of five orphans from Syria to France in mid-March of this year; a three year old girl whose mother was sentenced to life imprisonment in Iraq was also returned […]