Voice of America article quoting ICSVE Director Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. By Jeff Swicord June 13, 2016 WASHINGTON — This is the first article in a three-part series on Islamist Extremism in America. One day after the worst mass-shooting in U.S.…
“Hold On, America; The War Is Not Over and You Have Yet to Win” Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. “These are the words of ISIS deputy and spokesman Mujahid Shaykh Abu Muhammad al- Adnani ash-Shami…
SRF radio interview of ICSVE Director Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. By Fredy Gsteiger May 10, 2016 Die Psychiaterin Anne Speckhard von der Georgetown-Universität in Washington ist eine der wenigen Terrorismus-Expertinnen, die mit hunderten Tätern gesprochen hat. Sie ist interessiert an der…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Murky federal plans, and odd bedfellows between law enforcement and counseling professionals, currently threaten to create ethical dilemmas for those in the helping professions—psychologists, counselors, imams and doctors—who may be called upon by the FBI in upcoming…
Huffington Post article by ICSVE Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 28, 2016 By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. For months now disaffected Syrian, ISIS defectors we have been interviewing in our ISIS Defectors Interview Project have been…
For months now disaffected Syrian, ISIS defectors we have been interviewing in our ISIS Defectors Interview Project have been telling us that one of the many reasons that they became disenchanted with ISIS was that their leaders were directly negotiating…
A report written by the German Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) indicated that twenty-nine former German soldiers left their countries to fight for rebel groups, including ISIS, in Syria or Iraq, as reported by local German news .[i] It also claimed…
In Spring of 2007 I was seated on a flight into Baghdad International Airport, on my way into Camp Cropper, where I was interviewing detainees and writing what would become the basis of the Detainee Rehabilitation Program—a plan to try…
Huffington Post article by ICSVE Deputy Director Ahmet S. Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 24, 2016 ISIS has been generating millions of dollars through the sale of women and children abducted from the regions it has conquered. While…
A picture is worth a thousand words. It’s a commonly accepted piece of wisdom—one that groups like al Qaeda and ISIS understand all too well when trying to recruit Western youth into their ranks. Images often speak directly to our…