On Violent Extremism – a podcast
Dr. Scott Atran featured in
On Violent Extremism, a podcast by CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies on Countering Violent Extremism.
Mr. Aiken is currently the Director of Communication, Research & Evaluation in the National Transformation Program at the Office of the Prime Minister, Jamaica House. In this capacity, he is responsible for the understanding of human behavior and social patterns as it relates to political violence within Jamaica. This understanding is a core element of the Prime Minister’s approach to transformative policy that will reduce overall violence in the country. Prior to his advisory role for the Prime Minister, he served as an Alderman in Portland, Jamaica and served as the Executive Director of North Eastern Educational Development (NEED), where he was superintendent of schools and a community organizer. Mr. Aiken holds Master’s Degrees from Harvard and National University and a Baccalaureate Degree from San Diego Christian College.
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Dr. Scott Atran featured in
On Violent Extremism, a podcast by CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies on Countering Violent Extremism.
An unorthodox anthropologist goes face to face with ISIS. Is the payoff worth the peril?
Bartlett, T. The Road to ISIS. (20 May 2016). The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Les ministres se sont bousculés au premier Colloque international sur la prévention de la radicalisation. L’occasion de sortir des idées reçues.
Colloque : les Oscars de la déradicalisation. 29 April 2016. Le Point.
The EU Is Now Criminalizing Refugees. April 20, 2016. The Nation. Lydia Wilson.
An in-depth report by Scott Atran on the inconclusive battle to take one little village called Kudilah exposes the weakness of the strategy to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second biggest city.
On the Front Line Against ISIS: Who Fights, Who Doesn’t, and Why. April 19, 2016. The Daily Beast.
A short piece on the importance of understanding sacred values for solving pressing global problems.
Sustainable Security and Sacred Values. April 18, 2016. Sustainable Security.
Comment devient-on djihadiste? (April 7, 2016). Télégrama.fr. By Scott Atran and Nafees Hamid. Read Part 1 of 2 // Read Part 2 of 2
Terror in Europe: Safeguarding U.S. Citizens at Home and Abroad. (April 5, 2016). Statement before the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee. By Juan C. Zarate.
Dr. Hammad Sheikh developed a Terrorism Attack Visualization Tool to illustrate all terrorist attacks since 1970. Data is derived from the START Center’s Global Terrorism Database. You can see the shift from communist terrorism to Islamic terrorism after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Davis, Richard. 2016. Hamas, Popular Support and War in the Middle East: Insurgency in the Holy Land. Routledge: London.