Background: In the Netherlands, general practitioners (GPs) play a key role in provider-initiated HIV testing, but opportunities for timely diagnosis are regularly missed. We implemented an educational intervention to improve HIV testing by GPs from 2015 to 2020, and observed a 7% increase in testing …

Refugees deserve a humane and attentive reception when applying for asylum in the Netherlands. In this masterplan and design for the AZC in Budel full attention is paid to a stress reducing and welcoming environment for the applicants and the staff of the COA facilities. The integration in the site, …

European Integration qualifies as perhaps the most interesting experiment in present-day international relations. Throughout its existence, the European Union’s power as an economic, political or military actor has changed constantly. The current status of the EU has an impact on how the EU functions …

The emergence of wearable sensor technology may provide opportunities for automated measurement of psychophysiological markers of mental and physical fitness, which can be used for personalized feedback. This study explores to what extent within-subject changes in resting heart rate variability (HRV) …

This critical, literature-review based research project, inspired by the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, examines the limitations and possibilities of restorative justice in a time of war. Any armed conflict creates and amplifies the need for extreme militarisation and securitisation, accompanied …

The military has long been a topic of interest in the social sciences. However, to date, military studies tend to take an overly researcher-oriented viewpoint rather than actually engaging with the ‘native’ experience of the soldier. This article intends to reorient military studies to a perspective …

This article provides insight into the motivation of young women to join the armed forces and to choose a career in the military. This insight explains why women are still underrepresented in the Netherlands armed forces and can optimize future recruitment programs. An online Dutch questionnaire was …

De militaire organisatie opereert in constant veranderende, onzekere omstandigheden waarin zij geconfronteerd wordt met complexe organisatievraagstukken, bijvoorbeeld rond technologische ontwikkelingen of ethisch leiderschap. Deze vraagstukken hangen bovendien met elkaar samen. Het Research Centre Military …

The Belarusian Cyber Partisans (BCP) have opposed the authoritarian government of Belarus since 2020 through cyber attacks. They have hacked government and police databases, revealing sensitive information about government personnel. One notable event was their hack of the Belarusian railway system in …

Intelligence studies missed social science’s “complexity turn” more than twenty years ago. The aim of this article is to examine military intelligence from a complexity science perspective and discuss related concepts such as sensemaking and reflexivity. For this, military and intelligence theory, doctrine, …