By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) is an action-based non-profit research center that operates the Breaking the ISIS Brand—Counter-Narratives Project, which uses insider voices of ISIS…
By Anne Speckhard Another video clip in the Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Cadres Counter-Narrative Project, "You Blow Yourself Up" produced by ICSVE's Zack Baddorf is based on Anne Speckhard's and Ahmet S.…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. "My Brother, the Martyr for Islamic State" is ICSVE's newly released video in the Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Cadres Counter-Narrative Project. "My Brother, the Martyr for the Islamic State"…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. "Muslins are Killing their Brothers in Islam" is ICSVE's newly released video clip in the Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Cadres Counter-Narrative Project. Produced by ICSVE's Zack Baddorf, this video…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. ICSVE is proud to announce the release of our newest video in the Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Cadres Counter-Narrative Project. "Dreams of the Islamic State" produced by…
ICSVE is proud to announce the release of our newest video in the Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Cadres Counter-Narrative Project. "My Brother in the Islamic State" is based on Anne Speckhard's…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., & Chinara Esengul, Ph.D. Candidate PDF here Executive Summary This article reports on field research undertaken in Kyrgyzstan during November 2016. It explores radicalization to violent extremism…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. ICSVE is proud to announce the release of The Glorious Martyrs of the Islamic State, another new video clip in the Breaking the…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Charles Figley, Ph.D. Download the PDF Abstract Torture resorted to as a method to extract information believed to be of an urgent security relevance to the…