Analysis of the Drivers of Violent Extremism in the Sandjak region with a Focus on Women’s Roles, including a Stakeholder Capacity Assessment Regarding Gender Issues By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. PDF here TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Defining Violent Extremism Methodology…
Journal of Strategic Security Volume 9 Number 4 Volume 9, No. 4, Special Issue Winter Article 2 2016: Understanding and Resolving Complex Strategic Security Issues Defeating ISIS on the Battle Ground as well as in the Online Battle Space: Considerations of the…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. and Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. Thirty-eight ISIS defectors from Syria, Western Europe, and the Balkans interviewed over the last year in our ISIS Defectors Interviews Project reported about life inside ISIS and their reasons for ultimately…
Allahu Akbar!" [Allah is Greater!] Mubin Shaikh Called out after hearing that two planes had struck the World Trade Center. born and raised in Canada, educated in Public Schools by Day, and Islamic Madrassa by evening - where hitting the…
Abstract This Research Note reports on preliminary results of the Islamic State Interviews Project, based here on a sample of thirteen Syrian IS defectors who spoke on life inside the “Islamic State”(IS). A fuller and more systematic account will be…
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…