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Security Studies Professor Releases Book on Leadership Changes in Religious Terrorist Groups

Security Studies Professor Releases Book on Leadership Changes in Religious Terrorist Groups

By Holly Delaney October 7, 2022

A Georgetown University professor co-wrote a book on the different types of leaders who take over religious terrorist groups and how these groups sustain themselves during transitions of power.  Elizabeth...

MARCHL: Combat Video Game Indoctrination

MARCHL: Combat Video Game Indoctrination

By Lea Marchl April 15, 2021

Video games are an important part of our generation’s culture and are lauded as a pastime and medium for creative expression. However, video games and gaming culture can extend to the extremes and present...

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Counter Domestic Terrorism Proactively, Panelists Say

By Meredith Miller October 2, 2019

Proactive, community-based prevention is more effective in reducing the threat of domestic terrorism than singling out a particular group’s radicalization efforts, panelists said at a Lecture Fund event...

Q&A: Bruce Hoffman, Outgoing Security Studies Director, Talks IS and Counterterrorism

Q&A: Bruce Hoffman, Outgoing Security Studies Director, Talks IS and Counterterrorism

By Alfredo Carrillo November 29, 2017

Since 2010, Bruce Hoffman, the director of the Georgetown University Center for Security Studies, has overseen the program as it has grown to include about 400 students and over 100 faculty. The program...

PETROCHEILOS: The Dangers  of Generalization

PETROCHEILOS: The Dangers of Generalization

By Martha Petrocheilos March 28, 2017

Mindless acts of terror do not surprise us anymore. The tragedy in London last Wednesday killed four people, among them an unarmed police officer, and injured 12 others: one German, one Pole, two Greeks,...

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VALENTIN: Necessity of Naming Our Threats

By Francois Valentin November 4, 2016

Words matter, especially when you are a president. The presidency of George W. Bush was packed with blunders and poor word choices, many of which have remained the object of ridicule long after his term....

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VALENTIN: Veiling Dialogue and Discourse

By Francois Valentin October 7, 2016

It has been more than a month since the heat of the burkini controversy in France dissipated; A few weeks after a deadly Jihadist attack in Nice, dozens of coastal towns in the south and north of France...

PETROCHEILOS: Distorted Perceptions of Terror

PETROCHEILOS: Distorted Perceptions of Terror

By Martha Petrocheilos September 27, 2016

On Sept. 17, a bomb explosion injured 29 people on a crowded sidewalk in Chelsea, N.Y.. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) called the incident “an intentional act” at the time, while Gov. Andrew...

A Distant Massacre Hits Close to Home

By Bassam Sidiki January 13, 2015

I must confess that I have never been to Peshawar, the oldest inhabited city in South Asia. I’ve spent most of my life roughly 800 miles south of the historic city that recently suffered a massacre of...

Interpreting ISILs Muddled Meaning

Interpreting ISIL’s Muddled Meaning

By Emma Lux November 19, 2014

The American public is horrified by the terrorist group ISIL’s beheading of journalists, systematic civilian killings, and public shootings of homosexuals in the presence of children. However,...

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B. Shaw Drake (LAW ’15) will travel to Guantanamo Bay.

Law Students to Observe Guantanamo

By Kshithij Shrinath September 23, 2014

Two law students will attend proceedings at the U.S. Naval Center in Guantanamo Bay in October, after the U.S. Department of Defense approved the Georgetown University Law Center as an official observer...

Nonprofit Counters Terror With Jobs

By Aaron Lewis October 18, 2013

When Marshall Bailly founded Leadership Initiatives as an undergraduate at American University, he never imagined he would still be managing the nonprofit nine years later. But nearly a decade...

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