Anne Speckhard, Ph.D ICSVE is proud to release its new Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narratives video clip, Establishing an Islamic State. This video clip features Abu Omar, who in 2006 as a boy of age 15, joined al Qaeda…
The final victory over the so-called Islamic State won’t be won until its ideas have been dismantled and discredited. ANNE SPECKHARD ARDIAN SHAJKOVCI 12.19.17 5:00 AM ET (Originally published in the Daily Beast) BAGHDAD—We arrived here this month just as…
by Fares Braizat, Ph.D., Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., & Amer Sabaileh, Ph.D. PDF here Abstract Jordan has found itself pulled into a global storm involving terrorist groups and their ideologies, with al-Nusra and ISIS operating in its current center. Equally important…
ICSVE's research report appearing today in the Daily Beast Coleman endured rape, the murder of her first child, and a terrifying rescue. A psychologist who has talked to hundreds of hostages looks at the challenges ahead for her family. ANNE SPECKHARD…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. PDF here U.S. officials announced this week that American hostage, Caitlan Coleman of Pennsylvania, 31, her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, 34, and their three children had been released after being abducted five years ago by a Pakistani…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Joining Islamic State for the Sake of Martyrdom is the 15th video clip in ICSVE's Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Cadres Counter-Narrative Project. Joining Islamic State for the Sake of Martyrdom is based on Anne Speckhard's June 2017 prison interview…
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 defectors, returnees and prisoners, to denounce the group as well…
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…
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. Yayla's interview of Syrian ISIS defector, Abu Abdullah. In this video…
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 clip is based on Anne Speckhard's and Ahmet S. Yayla's…