Juha Saarinen
Juha Saarinen is a researcher specializing on jihadism in Finland. He is currently finishing a postgraduate degree on the topic at King’s College London’s Department of Defence Studies. Previously, he has worked e.g. as an assistant researcher at the Finnish National Defence University and participated in several domestic and international research projects examining various aspects of Islamist militancy in Finland. He hold’s postgraduate degrees in International Relations from the London School of Economics and in Middle East and Central Asian Security Studies.
Key Publications include:
Malkki, L. and Saarinen, J. Evolution of Jihadism in Finland. The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, 19 May 2021.
This perspective critically examines some challenges posed to the rule of law and human rights by states’ use of data-driven learning-based artificial intelligence (AI) systems for identifying individuals presenting a threat to national security.
This perspective argues that despite the concern from researchers, policymakers, and the media about terrorist’s use of financial technologies, there is little empirical evidence of the adoption of widespread sophisticated financial plots.
This research paper retells the stories of an individual’s journey to join, dwell and fight for ISIS by examining Zafirr Golamaully’s series of blogs called ‘Dusty Feet’.