Rachel Briggs
Director, Hostage UK
Rachel Briggs is Director of Hostage UK, a charity chaired by Terry Waite. It aims to provide support and practical help to the families of hostages and the hostages upon release, and also offers educational services to organisations sending employees to work in kidnap hot spots. For more information, see www.hostageuk.org Rachel runs Hostage UK part-time, and spends the rest of her time as a visiting fellow of UCL where she conducts research on radicalisation. She is also a freelance...
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- Prioritising Prevention Gordon Brown’s indication that he will make terrorism his first priority as PM may seem welcome given the recent news coverage, but his methods may not be the most effective. His support for tougher anti-terrorism legislation appears to prioritise legislation and police powers over a more community orientated approach to counter terrorism. The widespread reporting of Dame Eliza’s Manningham-Buller’s comments that the security services knew of 30 terror plots facing the UK... from : sianjones 13th November 2006