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.

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.

Olga Wojtas, 'I Have Sat In Rooms Talking To People I Knew The Ira Would Love To Kill. The doorbell Rings' The Times Higher Education Supplement September 28, 2001 No.1506; Pg.20