Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Online
Module Offerings
7140PS-APR-MTP
7140PS-JAN-MTP
7140PS-SEP-MTP
7140PS-SEP_NS-MTP
Aims
The module examines terrorist groups and how they obtain and use finances, both for operational attacks and for long term existential objectives of the group or organisation.
It further examines the international counter measures and analyses how successful or otherwise these have been to date.
It considers the modes of operation of terrorist fund raising from both an operational, practitioner perspective and from the long term strategic international perspective.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically demonstrate a understanding of the inter-related nature of terrorist organisations and illicit fund raising
2.
Critically engage with and scrutinise contemporary empirical research and best practice reports in the field of terrorist financing.
3.
Critically evaluate the international and national counter measures against terrorist financing since 9/11.
4.
Critically compare and contrast international and national counter measures
and how they have attempted to utilise proactive financial intelligence.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Following an introductory session the module will address the following topics:
• the international terrorist threat since 9/11
• terrorist groups and organisations and their finances
• terrorism in differing global regions and variations on finances
• and the attempts to establish financial compliance systems and compliance and regulatory regimes, transitioning from financial crime to encompass terrorist financing
• global issues of financing of terrorism
• modus operandi of terrorist financing
• some underestimated or ’intelligence blind spot’ in international efforts against terrorist financing
• vulnerabilities of the private financial sector and financial institutions
• an overview of international and national counter measures deployed against to terrorist financing and assessing their effectiveness
Additional Information:This module deals with the overall aspect of terrorist financing, both on a regional and international perspective.