Anne Speckhard & Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today The welfare of children and adolescents housed in al Roj and al Hol camps located in Northeast Syria has also been the subject of considerable debate among…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg as published in Homeland Security Today Theoretical debates abound regarding the relative utility and practicality of deradicalization, which includes a cognitive and attitudinal shift away from extremist ideologies and violence, and disengagement, which includes physically…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today In the midst of the growing Black Lives Matter protests since 2020, the word “Antifa,” has increasingly appeared online and in the mainstream media. Antifa can refer to different…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., Hawwa Abdul Raheem, Kate Strezishar, & Molly Ellenberg[1] Awareness of violent extremism and the process of radicalization has spread throughout the world in recent years, bringing to the table the importance of developing a methodology in order…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: The impact of trauma on radicalization and terrorist recruitment has only recently made its way into the collective psyche of counterterrorism researchers and practitioners and is still not well understood.…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: “Coming to ISIS was the best deradicalization I could have.” Bouchra Abouallal, age 26, Belgian ISIS wife The ISIS “Caliphate” at its apex managed to attract approximately 40,000 foreign terrorist…
Anne Speckhard and Gabriel Sjöblom-Fodor As published in Homeland Security Today: The northern country of Finland represents a peculiar example in the international debate on ISIS foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and returnees. Known mainly for its celebrated educational system, welfare…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. INTRODUCTION The decades of military efforts and loss of human lives on the part of western governments against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, and most recently ISIS, have proven insufficient to eliminate the threat of militant jihadi terrorist…
by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published in Homeland Security Today PDF here During its heyday, ISIS and other militant groups attracted 40,000 foreign fighters in an unprecedented migration of men, women, and children to the battlegrounds of Syria…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., and Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. PDF here INTRODUCTION Even after decades of military efforts and loss of human lives on the part of western governments against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, and most recently ISIS, these interventions have proven…