Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism
The Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism (RISCT) was founded in 1990 by William Gutteridge as a successor organisation to the Institute for the Study of Conflict. Gutteridge had written books for the ISC.[1] The RISCT was less overtly political than the ISC, it mostly put out papers on middle-eastern terrorism. It now appears to be defunct.
In November 1990 the Institute received $25,000 from the The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. which has a record of funding conservative causes including the Heritage Foundation.[2] The money was ' To support the publication of Conflict Studies and the institute's annual conference.'[3]
- The RISCT's council is composed entirely of figures from academia, politics and the military, including former Defence Intelligence chief Sir Louis Le Bailly; counter-insurgency expert Sir Robert Thompson; former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Sir Harry Tuzo; Thatcher speech-writer Robert Moss; and ex-diplomat Sir Edward Peck. The calibre of its personnel, with their intimate knowledge of the workings of the state, makes the institute an influential part of the right-wing lobby in Britain.[4]
According to Gutteridge the Institute closed in 1999:
- In the 1980s, William Gutteridge, former professor of international studies at Aston University, raised the possibility of armed guards on planes and of screening overseas students studying aviation.
- "There's no lack of publications. Some of us feel fairly frustrated. We've been concerned by how little the lessons of Lockerbie have been applied, except perhaps in Britain and Germany," says Gutteridge, a former director of the Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism, an educational charity that folded two years ago for lack of subscriptions.[1]
Alumni / contributors
- William Gutteridge, past director
- Paul Wilkinson, past director (now at Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews)
- Peter Janke
- Max Beloff
- Stephen R. Bowers
Council
- Sir Louis Le Bailly
- Sir Robert Thompson
- General Sir Harry Tuzo, the General Officer commanding the British Army in Northern Ireland at the time of the 'Bloody Sunday' killings by the British in 1972.
- Robert Moss
- Edward Peck
References
- ^ For example Contemporary Terrorism. Edited by William Gutteridge (for the Institute for the Study of Conflict). New York: Facts on File, 1986, 225 pp. $16.95, reviewed in Foreign Affairs, Fall 1986.
- ^PSYOPS War, British Intelligence and the Covert Propaganda Front, — and the CIA's Interference in British Politics PsyOps War, "Au coeur de la penetration US des elites dirigeantes britanniques, De Defensa Date de publication : 15/12/2003 - Rubrique : Notre bibliothque.
- ^ RECIPIENT GRANTS Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism, London, Media Transparency Profile
- ^ FUNDER PROFILE The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
