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Headline : South African Post-Grad Course Aims to Fill Gaps in Counterterror Fight

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A new postgraduate course in South Africa is designed to give security professionals the counterterror expertise necessary to respond to some of the continentโ€™s most urgent threats.

The Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS) partnered with North-West University (NWU), South Africaโ€™s second largest university, to create the curriculum for the one-year diploma course in geopolitics with an emphasis on counterterrorism and transnational organized crime. The course is expected to be offered in 2025 and, as a fully online course, will be open to security professionals across the African continent.

Professor Barend Prinsloo, NWU program leader in international and national security, said the idea for the project dates to 2017. He saw a problem of โ€œsiloedโ€ approaches to addressing terrorism in South Africa and an inability to agree on how to define the threat. He hopes the new course will bring together professionals from the police, military, intelligence services, judiciary and other areas to bridge that gap.

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