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 […]
COVID-19 and Prisons in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Today, Latin America Advisor published an article that I was fortunate enough to be a part of. I was one of several experts that were interviewed in how capable the Northern Triangle countries are at containing a prison pandemic. “I would argue that there are at […]
U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and the Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism have released the congressionally mandated Country Reports on Terrorism 2019 and the accompanying Annex of Statistical Information, with analytical and editorial help for the second straight year from Adam Blackwell’s team at DSG. The Country Reports are an annual report […]
Tunisia became a top ISIS militant producer although the country is known as the leader of the Arab spring and has little to no terrorist activity prior to 2011. In Your Sons Are at Your Service, Dr. Aaron Y. Zelin uncovers the long history of Tunisian involvement in the jihadi movement and offers an in-depth […]
ProVeros is a crowd sourced project that aims to disrupt and combat counterfeiting and illicit trade. The nexus of illicit trade networks and terrorism is an intersection that we cannot afford to ignore. In past posts, we highlighted some of the most prolific and interesting issues in illicit trade and how these trade networks intersect […]
This past Friday, we had the pleasure of meeting with the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) to present GTTAC’s terrorism research and showcase our database, methodology and discuss the challenges and opportunities of this project. In 2004, NCTC began collecting open source information on global terrorism incidents to generate a database of terrorism […]
Omar Mohammed’s talk today for George Washington University’s Program on Extremism provided an intricately detailed account on the conditions in Mosul and the atrocities committed by ISIS. His harrowing accounts of these atrocities were contrasted by his discussions of the work currently being done to repair Mosul’s civil society and cultural heritage sites. His stories […]
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