This week, in our first Speaker Series event of 2021, we kicked the year off by hosting Russ Travers, former acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who spoke on the topic: “A Practitioner’s Perspective on the State of the Terrorist Threat.” With Mr. Travers’ extensive experience, he gave fantastic feedback on the present state […]
It was great to be invited back to the Interamerican Defense College (IADC) by my friend Prof. @MarkHamilton. This was class 60 and as they say each year the best one. IADC is now delivering an accredited master’s degree to the future leaders from the Americas. Spanish, English,French and Portuguese all swirling amongst a class […]
Last week, I was given the honor of giving a keynote presentation on Multidimensional Security in a time of Covid-19 for the III Conferencia Anual de Seguridad y Defensa. I would like to congratulate my friends at the National Center for Executive Studies of Peru for organizing a wonderful virtual conference in the most difficult […]
On Thursday, Nov. 19th 2020, GTTAC hosted it’s latest speaker series event, this time featuring Dr. Rohan Gunaratna on the topic of Terrorism in time of the Pandemic. Rohan gave an amazing presentation, and also what happened to be one of the most interesting q&a sessions we have had so far! His insight in the […]
On Nov. 6, 2020, the Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center (GTTAC) hosted its third Speaker Series event, featuring Anne Speckhard, who discussed “Breaking the ISIS Brand,” her series of findings from interviews of hundreds of terrorists from all over the world. We are pleased to announce that our fourth Speaker Series event will begin […]
The Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center on Nov. 6 hosted its third Speaker Series event, featuring Anne Speckhard (pictured below, at left), who discussed her research while interviewing hundreds of ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria, as well as other terrorists across the world. Dr. Speckhard described some of her findings, particularly with what […]
The Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center on Oct. 22 hosted its second Speaker Series event, featuring Jacob Zenn (pictured below, at left), who discussed Boko Haram and other jihadist movements in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Zenn described the origins of Boko Haram in Nigeria and its roots in al-Qa’ida. He also laid out several differences […]
On Thursday, GTTAC hosted the first of this year’s Speaker Series events, featuring Arie Perliger, author of the recently published book “American Zealots”. Arie gave an in-depth overview of the complex themes around domestic terrorism, in particular, the right-wing terrorism in the United States. GTTAC will be hosting more of these events in the future, […]
This past Thursday, GTTAC had the opportunity to hear from Bassam Haddad on the topic of the Syrian uprising in 2011, as well as the prospects for future stability, which is bleaker than most will imagine. Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School […]
Last week, I had the fantastic opportunity to present the Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center’s database of terrorism incidents worldwide to the c0c0n – Hacking & Cyber Security Briefing Conference. The Conference is organised by a conglomerate of government and private institutions, led by ISRA – (a registered non-profit organization in the area of […]
