He Whenua Taurikura needs to be staffed by serious security studies scholars genuinely interested in countering future threats, writes Dr John Battersby of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. It’s well overdue. Serious […]
Government has remained reluctant to promote a public facing strategy that informs the public on how to protect venues from attack and stay safe during an attack, writes Chris Kumeroa, Chair of the Crowded Places […]
Specialist crowded places security advisory group says recent teenage terror plot presents important learnings for hospitality, retail, entertainment, and event venue operators, writes chief editor Nicholas Dynon. It emerged in early November with the recent […]
Chief editor Nicholas Dynon writes that established punitive approaches by New Zealand’s government to individuals exhibiting lone actor terrorist behaviours are not necessarily making us safer. Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen, the 32-year-old ISIS sympathiser who […]
Recent discussions between New Zealand Police and the New Zealand Security Association around Protecting our Crowded Places from Attack: New Zealand’s Strategy is a positive development, writes Nicholas Dynon. Published by Police on 17 September 2020, Protecting our […]
With recent terrorist attacks in the West ‘home-grown’, Wellington based Security Consultant Marc Collins CSyP explains how governments might go about countering the threat whilst preserving freedoms. According to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) […]
Massey University intelligence and counter terrorism specialist Dr John Battersby answers our questions on the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terrorist attacks. NZSM: The government has accepted all 44 recommendations […]
New Zealand Police has today released a strategy to assist owners and operators increase the safety, protection and resilience of crowded places across New Zealand. Protecting Our Crowded Places from Attack: New Zealand’s Strategy sets out […]
Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Dr. Colin P. Clarke and Samuel Hodgson write that that the fight against ISIS is not over but merely entering a new phase, and that that militants from the Philippines, Indonesia, and […]
How can New Zealand improve its resilience against terror attack? Dr Barnaby Pace, Head of Department – Postgraduate and Research at Otago Polytechnic considers psychological approaches to counter terrorism and consequence management. The events of […]
Two months on from the Christchurch mosque attacks, NZSM gains insights from Phil Murphy, Sales Manager South Island for Gallagher, and Gary Morrison, NZSA CEO, in relation to the post-15/03 security context. Security, at its […]
The terrible events in Christchurch in March this year have drawn attention to the potential of lone wolf attacks on innocent people by deranged individuals. Not only are guns the weapon of choice, but also […]
The failure to prevent the Christchurch attack is a collective one, writes Dr John Battersby of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. It is a horribly uneasy and uncomfortable feeling to review one’s […]
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