This work covers the external military, political, and economic support for terrorist groups, focusing on the nature, quality, and extent of assistance provided by Irish, Sri Lankan Tamil, Kurdish, and Kashmiri diaspora and migrant communities to the Provisional IRA, amongst other terrorist groups.
Rohan Gunaratna is the head of the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. By its size, ICPVTR is one of the largest counter terrorism research and training centres in the world.