COVID-19 Pandemic

Rohan Kumar Gunaratna is Professor of Security Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technology University, and Founder of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Singapore. He received his Masters from the University of Notre Dame in the United States where he was a Hesburgh Scholar and his doctorate from the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom where he was a British Chevening Scholar. A former Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Centre at the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Gunaratna was Visiting Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The author of “Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror” (University of Columbia Press), Gunaratna, edited the Insurgency and Terrorism Series of the Imperial College Press, London. A trainer for national security agencies, law enforcement authorities, and military counterterrorism units, he interviewed terrorists and insurgents in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and other conflict zones. For advancing international security cooperation, Gunaratna received the Major General Ralph H. Van Deman Award. Mohd Mizan Aslam is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), and founder and first director of Malaysian Research Institute of Strategic Studies (MyRISS). Mizan was conferred Honorary Major by Malaysian Armed Forces in 2016 due to his contribution in security and CVE initiatives. He is also a national expert panel in rehabilitation programs to terrorist inmates nationwide. He is a writer for numerous books, conference papers, journals, proceedings, newspapers, magazines, keynote speakers, and TV and news columnists. Mizan actively involves in fellowship abroad as Executive Council of Benevolent Fund for Outstanding Students (BFOS), Hadramowt, Govt of Yemen, and Executive Advisor QATAR Guest Centre, Doha Qatar. Mizan held a position as Adjunct Professor at School of Arts & Humanities, Universitas Ubudiyah Indonesia (UUI), Acheh, Indonesia. Mizan also appointed as Visiting Professor at the Centre for Civilization & Peace Study, Ibnu Haldun University, Besheksehir, Istanbul, Turkey in 2017. Mizan involved in developing a National Action Plan on CVE with Home Ministry of Malaysia and also appointed as Senior Fellow at Islamic and Strategic Studies Institute (ISSI-CONCAVE).

Introduction 1. Terrorism Amids A Pandemic 2. Decoding the Global Security Threat of COVID-19 3. COVID-19 Crisis: The Impact of Trade and Economic Contagion on Developing and Emerging Markets 4. Multilateralism and Global Security Post COVID-19 5. Health Economic Model for Developing Countries to Combat Pandemics 6. COVID-19: An Enabler for Digital Acceleration 7. Exacerbating the Pandemic? Assessing The Crtitcal Role of Religious Congregations in the Indian Subcontinent 8. Implications of the COVID-19 Global Health Pandemic on ASEAN’s Security Community 9. Terrorism and Biological Weapons 10. Enhanced Terrorism and the Prospect of its use in the United States – An Update