The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism

Should The West Forgive ISIS Returnees?

Among the penitent are potential time bombs. ICSVE cited in Commentary Magazine article For many...
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ICSVE’s New “Breaking the ISIS Brand” Video Clip – The Promises of ad-Dawlah to Women

ICSVE research republished in Security Solutions By John Bigelow -May 5, 2017 By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Laura...
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ISIS Drones: Evolution, Leadership, Bases, Operations and Logistics

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The Daily Harvester: How ISIS Disseminates Propaganda over the Internet Despite Counter-Measures and How to Fight Back

Lorand Bodo, M.A. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download the PDF As ISIS is rapidly losing...
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The Operational Ranks and Roles of Female ISIS Operatives: From Assassins and Morality Police to Spies and Suicide Bombers

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Psychosocial Drivers, Prevention and Sequelae of Engaging in Torture

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Drivers of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Kosovo: Women’s Roles in Supporting, Preventing & Fighting Violent Extremism

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Abu Luqman – Father of the ISIS Emni: Its Organizational Structure, Current Leadership and Clues to its Inner Workings in Syria & Iraq

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The Truck as a “Just” Tool of Terror – What we can Learn from the Stockholm, Sweden Attack

Louisa Tarras-Wahlberg It’s a sunny Friday afternoon in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Thousands of...
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Is ISIS Moving its Capital from Raqqa to Mayadin in Deir ez-Zor?

by Asaad H. Almohammad, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download the PDF There is a...
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