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Per Magnus Ranstorp (born 13 March 1965 in Hästveda) is a
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scholar who has written about
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,
Hamas Hamas (, ; , ; an acronym of , "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist, militant, and nationalist organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Bri ...
,
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and other
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Islamic movements. He is the Research Director of the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the
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, directing a project on Strategic Terrorist Threats to Europe which focuses on radicalisation and recruitment of
salafist The Salafi movement or Salafism () is a reform branch movement within Sunni Islam that originated during the nineteenth century. The name refers to advocacy of a return to the traditions of the "pious predecessors" (), the first three generati ...
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jihadist Jihadism is a neologism which is used in reference to "militant Islamic movements that are perceived as existentially threatening to the West" and "rooted in political Islam."Compare: Appearing earlier in the Pakistani and Indian media, Wes ...
terrorists across Europe and the convergence between Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear Weapons, and Terrorism. Ranstorp graduated from
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in
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in 1985. He was previously the Director of Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of Hizballah in Lebanon as well as several articles and monographs on terrorism and counter-terrorism. He is on the international editorial advisory board of the academic journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and on the editorial boards of two newly launched peer-reviewed journals published by Taylor & Francis: Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict and Critical Studies on Terrorism. In 2003 he was invited to testify before the first hearing of the
9/11 Commission The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up on November 27, 2002, "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks", includin ...
. He was a member of an Advisory Panel on Terrorism in Europe advising the EU counter-terrorism coordinator. In 2005 he was a contributor to the
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Center directed project on "Ideological War on Terror: Synthesizing Strategies Worldwide" (funded by the Office of the
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). In 2006 Ranstorp was invited to join the European Commission Expert Group on Violent Radicalisation, an official advisory body on all matters relating to violent radicalisation and recruitment of extremists within the EU. During the early stages of the
2011 Norway Attacks The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July ( no, 22. juli) or as 22/7, were two domestic terrorist attacks by neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) ...
, Ranstorp claimed that the attacks could only have been the work of a network of al-Qaeda operatives, something which was later shown to be false, as the attacks were carried out by a lone
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perpetrator. In his manifesto mass-murderer
Anders Behring Breivik Fjotolf Hansen (born 13 February 1979), better known by his birth name Anders Behring Breivik () and by his pseudonym Andrew Berwick, is a Norwegian far-right domestic terrorist, known for committing the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July 2011. On ...
copied 25 pages verbatim from an ideological text written by
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that the
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was started by "a warrior from the caliphate"; the fire was later shown to have been started by an ISIS operative. In June 2017 Ranstorp was appointed the leader of a study on
jihadi Jihadism is a neologism which is used in reference to "militant Islamic movements that are perceived as existentially threatening to the West" and "rooted in political Islam."Compare: Appearing earlier in the Pakistani and Indian media, Wes ...
salafist organisations in Sweden by the
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Bibliography

* ''Mellan salafism och salafistisk jihadism: Påverkan mot och utmaningar för det svenska samhället'' (en. ''Between salafism and salafi-jihadism: Counter-measures and challenges for Swedish society'') (with Filip Ahlin, Peder Hyllengren, Magnus Normark) (2018) * ''Financial activities linked to persons from Sweden and Denmark who joined terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq during the period 2013 ‐ 2016: Report commissioned by Finansinspektionen'' (with Filip Ahlin, Magnus Normark) (2017) * ''Swedish Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: An Analysis of open-source intelligence and statistical data'' (with Linus Gustafsson) (2017) * ''Gaza Under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance'' (with Björn Brenner) (2017)


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CATS - Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College
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