Terrorism & Extremism

A Trump supporter reaches for his revolver as Black Lives Matter protesters advance to push the group away from the Justice Center in Portland, Ore., on August 22, 2020. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Order from Chaos

Who is a terrorist, actually?

Daniel L. Byman

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

National Counterterrorism Center Director Christopher Miller and FBI Director Christopher Wray testifiy before the House Homeland Security Committee during a hearing about 'worldwide threats to the homeland' on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 17, 2020. Chip Somodevilla/Pool via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

How serious are threats to the US homeland?

Daniel L. Byman and Seamus Hughes

Monday, September 21, 2020

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U.S. President Donald Trump pauses during a statement on the deadly protests in Charlottesville, at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 14, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Order from Chaos

International efforts to counter violent extremism under President Trump: A case study in dysfunction and incoherence

Eric Rosand

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Reports

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal (4th L), U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (5th L), Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (centre L) and EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton (centre R), pose with diplomats at the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) in Istanbul June 7, 2012. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/Pool (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS)

Terrorism & Extremism

Preparing the Global Counterterrorism Forum for the next decade

Eric Rosand

Monday, August 17, 2020

Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members wait to be escorted upon their arrival at the maximum-security jail in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador, June 22, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Crime & Criminal Justice

Bargaining with the devil to avoid hell? Negotiations with criminal groups in Latin America and the Caribbean

Vanda Felbab-Brown

July 2020

Sons of Onyeka Oguaghamba, one of the Nigerian men arrested on charges of public display of affection with members of the same sex, walk to school in Lagos, Nigeria, February 11, 2020. Oguaghamba says he was sleeping outside the hotel in car at the time of the raid and was caught up in the arrests. While he was in police detention, Oguaghamba said, his four boys were told their father had been on television. "I felt so bad, although they didn't understand what gay means," he said. "They asked me - why police arrested me and they were showing me on television. I explained to them that the police can arrest anybody at any time." REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja SEARCH "NIGERIA LGBT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Terrorism & Extremism

Education and Boko Haram in Nigeria

Madiha Afzal

April 2020

Jubbaland forces carry their ammunitions during a security patrol against Islamist al Shabaab militants in Bulagaduud town, north of Kismayu, Somalia, August 17, 2015. Ahmed Madobe, a former Islamist warlord won re-election on Saturday as president of Somalia's southern region of Jubbaland, a territory partly controlled by al Shabaab militants and at odds with the central government of the Horn of Africa country. The fate of Kismayu and Jubbaland is seen as a test of the central government's skill in building a federal system and pacifying a nation fought over for more than two decades by warlords and Islamist rebels. REUTERS/Abdiqani Hassan

Somalia

The problem with militias in Somalia: Almost everyone wants them despite their dangers

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A member of the local militia, otherwise known as CJTF, Baba Gana, holds a gun as he sits in the back of a truck during a patrol in the city of Maiduguri, northern Nigeria June 9, 2017. Picture taken June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye.

Nigeria

Militias (and militancy) in Nigeria’s north-east: Not going away

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Blog Posts

Members of the NYPD Counterterrorism unit monitor a Blues Lives Matter rally in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on July 11, 2020. (Photo by Gabriele Holtermann/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Order from Chaos

Counterterrorism in a time of COVID

Daniel L. Byman and Andrew Amunson

Thursday, August 20, 2020

A Detroit Police officer talks with two armed men, one of whom is carrying a "The Boogaloo stands with George Floyd" sign, during a rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. May 30, 2020. Picture taken May 30, 2020. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

Order from Chaos

How a new administration might better fight white supremacist violence

Daniel L. Byman

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

A man in the crowd holds a QAnon sign with the group's abbreviation of their rallying cry "Where we go one, we go all" as crowds gather to attend U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign rally at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Patrick Fallon

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Podcast: Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny explain QAnon

Ben Collins, Brandy Zadrozny, Quinta Jurecic, and Evelyn Douek

Friday, August 7, 2020

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Experts

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Somalia

The long war in Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Adam Day

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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Nigeria

Fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Adam Day

Hybrid Wars with Adam Day

Friday, June 12, 2020

Names of missing Chibok school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgency five years ago are displayed during the 5th year anniversary of their abduction, in Abuja, Nigeria April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Podcast Episode

Why Boko Haram in Nigeria fights western education

Madiha Afzal and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Friday, April 17, 2020

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Jihadism at a crossroads

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Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Center for Middle East Policy

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