Anne Speckhard & Sophia AbiNajm Download PDF Introduction Targeted violence and violent extremism are on the rise in the United States and law enforcement personnel, specifically police officers and sheriffs’ deputies, are often the first line of defense in countering…
Anne Speckhard & Molly Ellenberg[1] Executive Summary Seventy-two cases of active-duty and veteran military members involved in white supremacists and violent anti-government militias and groups located in open-source reporting from 2017-2022 were compiled and analyzed on 17 key variables. Researchers…
Anne Speckhard & Molly Ellenberg On September 1st, 2022, Thomas Webster was sentenced to ten years in prison for his violent actions at the U.S. Capitol Hill insurrection on January 6th, 2021. Webster was convicted of a variety of felonies,…
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, Molly Ellenberg, and TM Garret As published in Homeland Security Today White supremacist ideologies, whether they are associated with neo-Nazi, Christian Identity, Creativity, or Arastú/Odinist groups, hold hatred of Jews and blaming of Jews for the world’s ills…
Anne Speckhard, Molly Ellenberg, Jesse Morton, and Alexander Ash This manuscript has been published in the Journal of Strategic Security. Introduction In recent years, there has been growing concern about the potential threat of violence, including terrorism and mass murder,…
https://youtu.be/hQEUSMk9L0U Anne Speckhard My Path Toward Jihad is the 64th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 25-year-old Georges, a Belgian from Liege, Belgium, who was interviewed in 2018, in Liege, by Anne…
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 in Kyrgyzstan in general as well as women’s roles within…
The Jihad in Jordan: Drivers of Radicalization into Violent Extremism in Jordan By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It is estimated that since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, over 30,000 foreign fighters have joined Sunni…