The US military withdrawal from Afghanistan raised criticism among current and former service members of Western armed forces that were once deployed in the country.
Emotionally distressed and frustrated voices emerged, for instance, from US and UK veterans of the Afghanist...
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Annelies Pauwels is a research fellow at the Flemish Peace Institute in Brussels, where she focuses on violent extremism and terrorism. Prior to that, she conducted research on conflict and crime prevention for several international organisations, including the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). Her previous research projects have focused, among others, on jihadist and right-wing terrorism, radicalisation in prison settings, and the EU’s terrorism prevention initiatives and cooperation.