On March 11th, I had the wonderful opportunity of hosting our latest GTTAC Speaker Series event, this time featuring Daisy Muibu from the University of Alabama (Roll Tide!). Daisy gave an in-depth view of terrorism and counterterrorism in Somalia, which has faced an ever-evolving state of conflict for nearly 30 years. You can view this […]
On March 11th, I had the wonderful opportunity of hosting our latest GTTAC Speaker Series event, this time featuring Dr. Victor Asal from the University of Albany where we discussed a quantitative perspective of non-state organizations and political violence. You can view this event, as well as all of our past events, here: https://dsgonline.com/gttac-speakers/ To […]
Last Thursday, I had the absolute pleasure of hosting our latest speaker, David Otto, where we had an enlightening discussion on terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. While we were limited on time in discussing a very complex topic, David made an excellent presentation. You can view this event, as well as all […]
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 […]
