Rohan Gunaratna
Professor Rohan Gunaratna (born 1961) is a threat specialist of the global security environment. Professor Gunaratna has over 30 years of academic, policy, and operational experience in national and international security.[1] He is Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore.[2]
He received his master's from the
Gunaratna holds several honorary appointments including as Chairman of the Global Peace Institute, UK; Secretary General of the Consortium for Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CCFT);[5] Member of the Advisory Council, The International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ), Malta; and Member of the Board of Directors, Indo-Pacific Centre, Singapore.[6]
The author of 20 books including Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (University of Columbia Press),[7] Gunaratna edited the Insurgency and Terrorism Series of the Imperial College Press, London.[8] He is a trainer for national security agencies, law enforcement authorities and military counter terrorism units, interviewed terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia and other conflict zones.[9] For advancing international security cooperation, Gunaratna received the Major General Ralph H. Van Deman Award.[10]
Education
Gunaratna was educated in
Career
In 2013, Sri Lankan
Hambali claims
In 2003, Gunaratna claimed that
In 2004, New Zealand journalist Martin Bright described Gunaratna as “the least reliable of the experts on bin Laden”.
Claim against Canadian Tamil Congress
In a February 2011 article in Lakbima News, Gunaratna claimed that the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) was a front for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.[20] The CTC sued Gunaratna, and on 21 January 2014, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled against Gunaratna, ordering home to pay the CTC damages of $37,000, and costs of $16,000.[21][22] In his ruling judge Stephen E. Firestone stated that Gunaratna's claims were unequivocally and incontrovertibly "false and untrue".[23][24]
Bibliography
- Gunaratna, Rohan (2002). Jane's counter terrorism. Peter Chalk (2nd ed.). Coulsdon, Surrey, UK: Jane's Information Group. OCLC 51906007.
References
- ^ "Rohan Gunaratna". Scinapse. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Rohan Gunaratna - RSIS". www.rsis.edu.sg. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ a b "Books by Professor Rohan Gunaratna". World Scientific Publishing. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Dr. Rohan Gunaratna". trendsresearch.org. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "SEMINAR ON COUNTERING THE FINANCING OF TERRORISM" (PDF). 12 February 2008. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Our People". Indo-Pacific Centre. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Rohan Gunaratna - Routledge & CRC Press Author Profile". www.routledge.com. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Insurgency And Terrorism". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "ROHAN GUNARATNA | Nanyang Technological University - Academia.edu". nanyang.academia.edu. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Kruglanski, Bélanger and Gunaratna launch their book 'The Three Pillars of Radicalization' at START | START.umd.edu". www.start.umd.edu. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "50 years of legacy of Police Cadeting at Ananda". Times Online. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ Dame, Marketing Communications: Web // University of Notre. "Robert C. - Johansen // Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies // University of Notre Dame". Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ^ "Professor Rohan Gunaratna (PhD)". Global Peace Institute (GPI). Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ^ Rajapakshe, Wijeydasa. "Dr. Gunaratne's Advice On Conflict Is More Mythical Than To Reality". Colombo Telegraph.
- ^ "IGP trashes claim of café siege by IS". The Daily Star. 14 March 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ a b c Small, David (24 August 2004). "Terrorism Expertise of Rohan Gunaratna Questioned". Scoop. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ Riduan Isamuddin & Australia Archived 5 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Abc.net; accessed 1 September 2015.
- ^ Pacific Journalism Review article: Vol 9, September 2003, pp 201–07.
- ^ a b "Analyse this". The Age. Melbourne. 20 July 2003.
- ^ "CTC Awarded $53,000 in Successful Defamation Lawsuit Against Rohan Gunaratna". Colombo Telegraph. 19 February 2014.
- ^ Westhead, Rick (20 February 2014). "Canadian Tamil Congress wins $53,000 libel judgment". Toronto Star.
- The Daily Mirror. Indo-Asian News Service. 19 February 2014. Archived from the originalon 29 March 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ Vijayan, K. C. (27 February 2014). "Singapore terror expert must pay $60,000 for defamation". The Straits Times.
- ^ "CTC win defamation case against Sri Lankan 'terrorism expert'". Tamil Guardian. 19 February 2014.
External links
- Staff Profile of Rohan Gunaratna, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, A Graduate School of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research
- Bradley Hope, How Commissioner Kelly Reads His Way To Vigilance on Crime, New York Sun October 2006.
- Daniel Hoare, Gareth Evans downplays terrorist risk in Australia