Volume 2 l Issue 3 l Jan - Jun 2024
Rabdan
Academy's Impact
A glimpse into the intellectual vibrancy of
Rabdan's community
Bi-annual Newsletter l Volume 2 l Issue 3 l Jan - Jun 2024
I am so delighted to be given the opportunity to welcome you to this
edition of Rabdan Academy newsletter. It is indeed a pleasure for me to
see the outstanding outputs of Rabdan Academy Faculty members to be
presented in this newsletter. I am impressed of the amount of hard work
and efforts done to make this achievement a success. This newsletter
contains research activities outputs in terms of publications and
possible patents filing which are indicators of excellent performance.
Reading through this newsletter you will discover that sensitive areas
such as Security, Safety, Defense, Emergency preparedness and Crisis
management (SSDEC) were covered by qualitative and quantitative
research approaches.
In this edition the latest selected success stories in research and
innovation are highlighted to give readers the chance to view Rabdan
Academy research throughput. This is not the end of our research
activities deliverables, there are many others achievements to share
with you in the next near future. The publication of this newsletter will be
on periodic intervals, the next publication will carry attractive and
significant dissemination of Rabdan Academy research performance.
We hope you enjoy this edition of our newsletter and we also encourage
you to keep in touch for the next editions.
Division Director’s
Message
Dr. Naji Mohammed Al Seiari
Division Director - Research and Innovation &
Interim Dean of Faculty
Security
Policing
Emergency and Crisis
Management
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Researches on
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Full article published in: Routledge | 2024
To read more
Military modernisation in Southeast
Asia after the cold war: Acquisition,
retention, and geostrategic impacts
Dr. Shang-Su Wu
Assistant Professor and
Research Coordinator
Homeland Security
Rabdan Academy
Southeast Asian countries represent a wide range of approaches to
military modernisation due to their great diversity in politics,
economies, geography and other factors. Bounded by the Pacific
and Indian Oceans and located between China and India is the
setting for the geostrategic impacts of military modernisation in
Southeast Asian countries.
Differing from previous research focused on military acquisition,
this book additionally covers retention of assets and carefully
examines the ageing issues that affect readiness and capabilities.
In doing so, it provides a comprehensive view of military
modernisation. This book also compares each country’s situation in
the region in terms of military strength and security challenges to
elaborate on the geostrategic impacts of military modernisation.
The ten cases of military modernisation in the post-Cold War
context provide rich content for readers to explore the evolution of
military modernisation in developing countries after 1991.
This book sheds light on security studies of Southeast Asia and is a
useful resource for academic researchers, policy-makers and
defence practitioners.
Research & Innovation
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Trilemma Tradeoffs in
International Relations:
An Analytical Framework
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Full article published in: Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 1 | 2024
To read more
Dr. Olivier Lewis
Assistant Professor
Defense and Security Program
Rabdan Academy
Over the past fifty years, scholars have drawn attention to the
consequences
of
trying
to
overcome
open-
ness/effectiveness/autonomy trilemmas, especially in monetary
policy and trade policy. Despite this, few have noticed the ubiquity
of such policy trilemmas in international relations. This article
presents a comprehensive analytical framework that captures the
core concepts and causal mechanisms relevant to understanding
these trilemmas, and identifies opportunities for future research.
The
first
section
provides
an
analytical
review
of
openness/effectiveness/autonomy trilemmas.
By doing so, it highlights three features of trilemmas: that goal
attainment is a question of degree, that goal attainment varies
across time, and that policy constraints affect states
asymmetrically. The second section presents a typology of
trilemma-based policy goals (openness, regulatory effectiveness,
and policymaking autonomy) and associated “disciplining”
mechanisms that explain the likelihood of trilemma tradeoffs (i.e.,
market-based, politics-based, and law-based mechanisms). The
third section shows how the trilemma framework presented in this
article can facilitate the empirical study of threefold policy
tradeoffs in all aspects of international relations, including
security and defense.
Research & Innovation
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Research & Innovation
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Dr. Osama Ahmed
Khashan
Associate Researcher and
Associate Professor
Research & Innovation Centers
Rabdan Academy
In the realm of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), preserving data
integrity, privacy, and security against cyberthreats is paramount.
Proxy re-encryption (PRE) plays a pivotal role in ensuring secure
intra-network communication. However, existing PRE solutions
encounter persistent challenges, including processing delays due to
the transfer of substantial data to the proxy for re-encryption and the
computational intensity of asymmetric cryptography. This study
introduces an innovative PRE scheme that is meticulously customized
for WSNs to enhance the secure communication between nodes
within the network and external data server. The proposed PRE
scheme optimizes efficiency by integrating lightweight symmetric
and asymmetric cryptographic techniques, thereby minimizing
computational costs during PRE operations and conserving energy
for resource-constrained nodes. In addition, the scheme incorporates
sophisticated key management and digital certificates to ensure
secure key generation and distribution, which in turn, facilitates
seamless authentication and scalable data sharing among the
entities in WSN. This scheme maintains sensor-node data encryption
and delegates secure re-encryption tasks exclusively to cluster
heads, thereby reinforcing data privacy and integrity.
The results confirm that the proposed PRE scheme significantly
enhances the security, efficiency, and overall network lifetime of
WSNs.
Innovative Energy-Efficient Proxy
Re-Encryption for Secure
Data Exchange in Wireless Sensor
Networks
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Full article published in: IEEE Access, Volume 12 | 2024
To read more
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Security
Policing
Emergency and Crisis
Management
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Building police capability in
child protection in Kenya
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Full article published in: Child Abuse & Neglect, Volume 147, January | 2024
To read more
Lydia Davenport
Lecturer
Policing and Security
Rabdan Academy
Dr. Eric Halford
Assistant Professor
Policing & Security Program
Rabdan Academy
Building police capability in
child protection in Kenya
Existing literature illustrates a high prevalence of child protection
issues throughout Kenya. This is adjoined by additional research
detailing issues of corruption, cultural rationalization and the
potential lack of capability to deal with the problem in existing law
enforcement practices. There is no specific research that
investigates the establishment or operational function of a child
protection department within law enforcement in Kenya. This study
aims to address this research gap by exploring the establishment of
an overseas initiative to support the development of a child
protection function in the National Police Service of Kenya and to
analyse the conditions in developing the project.
The results evidenced the need to focus in three key areas when
building child protection capability overseas to create a successful
function; the requirement to tailor context specific understanding of
the culture and operating environment, the need to understand the
current and potential capabilities within this context, and the
importance of obtaining leadership and governance support from
appropriate stakeholders both internally and externally. These
themes begin to develop a base for the development of international
practice for the establishment of overseas child protection policing
functions
Research & Innovation
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The ‘haves and have-nots’ of
social support during police
recruitment: why the playing field is
anything but level
Page 10
Full article published in: Policing and Society | 2024
To read more
Dr. Gareth Lee Stubbs
Assistant Professor
Policing and Security
Rabdan Academy
Stephen Tong
Kingston University
Current police recruitment research is often focused on
disproportionate outcomes based upon identity-based categories
such as race, ethnicity, or gender. National government statistics and
political discourse support this research agenda, indicating a
significant recruitment gap in representation in England and Wales.
This gap has resulted in the design and use of ‘in-house’ positive
action initiatives for police recruitment, with little examination of
their impact or otherwise. To understand this research gap, this paper
applies a labour market lens to police recruitment. This study
contributes to existing research by exploring how police recruits
navigate the recruitment process using their social resources. It
represents 27 in-depth, participant-led, long-form interviews within
an English Constabulary, informed by the theory of Social
Embeddedness. It explores how candidates who did not receive
positive action navigated and perceived their recruitment process,
whilst using their friends, family, and acquaintances for both
instrumental and pastoral support. This is contrasted against those
candidates that utilised positive action initiatives. The results
illustrate developed social embeddedness within police recruitment
in the researched constabulary.