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Talking Terror

Talking Terror is a podcast series presented and produced by Dr. John F. Morrison, a senior lecturer in criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London. In the episodes John talks to world leading experts of terrorism and extremism about their research findings and its impact. These conversations will allow the listener to get an in-depth insight into some of the best research on terrorism, from the researchers themselves. Within the episodes the guests will discuss their own research, as well as the research by others who have influenced them.

It is our aim that this podcast series will be worthwhile and interesting for a wide ranging audience. From students to professors, practitioners to those with a passing interest in understanding terrorism and counter-terrorism, we believe that there will be something for everyone within each episode.

For the most up to date information about the show be sure to follow us on Twitter @Terror_podcast using #TalkingTerror

This podcast was originally established while John was director of the Terrorism and Extremism Research Centre at the University of East London.

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Erin Kearns: Why Do Terrorists Lie? 'The Lost Episode' from 2021-09-13T16:12:43

Back in early 2020 I sat down with Erin Kearns to talk about her fascinating research on why terrorists lie. Back then I thought this was going to be one of many more Talking Terror episodes for an...

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John Horgan and Shadd Maruna in Conversation from 2019-11-29T09:53:13

This episode was made in collaboration with our friends 'Conversations with Criminologists', an excellent podcast from the Criminology team at University College Cork. This episode was recorded at ...

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Nathan Smith and Emma Barrett: Extreme Environments and Counter-Terrorism from 2019-08-08T14:15:51

Nathan Smith and Emma Barrett: Extreme Environments and Counter-Terrorism by John F. Morrison

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Nora Quoirin: 15 year old Missing in Malaysia from 2019-08-06T08:19:18

This is an appeal for an information or help that any listeners could give in the search for Nora Quoirin a 15 year old girl with learning difficulties missing in Malaysia. She went missing from th...

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David Wells: The United Nations and Counter-Terrorism from 2019-07-01T19:18:24

In today's episode John talks to David Well's from the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED)about the role which the UN broadly, and CTED specifically play in counter-terror...

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Assaf Moghadam: Terrorist Co-Operation from 2019-06-20T15:59:59

This episode is sponsored by IB Tauris. If you want a 35% discount on all books from the Middle-East and Politics sections of bloomsbury.com be sure to use the discount code TALKINGIBT19 at checkou...

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Nicole Tishler: Terrorist Use of Hoaxes from 2019-06-18T08:50:17

In today's episode John talks to Dr. Nicole Tishler about her research on terrorist hoaxes. This interview focuses on her research for her PhD dissertation for which she was awarded the 2018 TRI Aw...

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Julia Pearce: Terrorism Risk Perception and Communication from 2019-06-14T15:18:52

In this episode John talks to Dr. Julia Pearce from Kings College London about her fascinating research on terrorism risk perception and risk communication.

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James Khalil: Deradicalisation in Somalia from 2019-06-09T21:02:03

in this week's episode John talks to James Khalil.James is one of the authors of the RUSI report Deradicalisation and Disengagement in Somalia. In this episode they talk about the findings of this ...

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Daniel Koehler: Deradicalisation from 2019-06-09T20:51:43

In this episode John talks to Daniel Koehler, the director of the GermanInstitute on Radicalization and Deradicalization Studies (GIRDS). Daniel is widely considered to be one of the world leading ...

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Raquel DaSilva: Narratives, Critical Terrorism Studies & Portuguese Terrorism from 2019-05-30T16:17:10

In today's episode John talks to Dr. Raquel DaSilva about a range of topics. Included this chat are topics such as the role of narratives, critical terrorism studies, and Portuguese terrorism.
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Mick Williams: Scientific Approaches to CVE from 2019-05-30T15:57:01

In today's episode John talks to Dr. Michael J. Williams, of the American University in the Emirates, about the need for a more scientific approach to developing and assessing CVE programmes.
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Vidhya Ramalingam: Researching the Far Right from 2019-05-22T14:23:31

This episode is sponsored by IB Tauris. If you want a 35% discount on all books from the Middle-East and Politics sections of bloomsbury.com be sure to use the discount code TALKINGIBT19 at checkou...

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Catherine McGlynn and Shaun McDaid: Radicalisation and Higher Education in the UK from 2019-05-17T09:19:39

This episode is sponsored by IB Tauris. If you want a 35% discount on all books from the Middle-East and Politics sections of bloomsbury.com be sure to use the discount code TALKINGIBT19 at checkou...

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William Baldet and Sean Arbuthnot: Prevent from 2019-05-09T08:34:43

In this week’s episode John talks to William Baldet and Sean Arbuthnot about their experiences as Prevent coordinators. In this discussion they tackle some of the criticisms of Prevent as well as i...

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Erin Saltman: Facebook, Counter-Terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism from 2019-05-05T06:32:47

This episode is sponsored by IB Tauris. If you want a 35% discount on all books from the Middle-East and Politics sections of bloomsbury.com be sure to use the discount code TALKINGIBT19 at checkou...

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Launch of MSc in Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies: May 15th from 2019-05-01T21:39:59

On May 15th 2019 we will be launch our new MSc in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies. At the launch there will be keynote addresses by Lord Bernard Hogan Howe and Prof. Amina Memon. There will...

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David Malet: Foreign Fighters from 2019-04-28T08:00:19

In this episode John talks to David Malet from American University about his research on foreign fighters. As well as looking at the modern day phenomenon the chat discusses what we can learn from ...

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Tricia Bacon: Why Terrorists Form International Alliances from 2019-04-23T14:12:17

In this week's episode John talks to Tricia Bacon from American University about her research on why terrorists form international alliances. Prior to her employment at American University, Dr. Bac...

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Mike Kenney: Al-Muhajiroun from 2019-04-13T18:59:54

In this weeks episode John Morrison talks to Dr. Michael Kenney about his book The Islamic State in Britain:Radicalisation and Resilience in an Activist Network. Based on extensive ethnographic res...

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Sinead O'Shea: A Mother Brings Her Son To Get Shot from 2019-03-08T12:35:56

In the first episode of Series 2 of Talking Terror (now sponsored by IB Tauris) John talks to Sinead O'Shea about her documentary 'A Mother Brings Her Son To Get Shot.' This documentary focuses on ...

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Anthony Richards: Conceptualising terrorism from 2018-07-29T07:00:04

Anthony’s research focus has been on conceptualizing terrorism, UK counter-terrorism strategy, radicalization and extremism. He has also published on a wide range of other terrorist related themes ...

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Peter Neumann: Radicalisation from 2018-07-22T07:00:04

Peter Neumann is a Professor of Security Studies at the War Studies Department, and serve as Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR, www.icsr.info ), which he fo...

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Lorne Dawson: The Role of Religion in Radicalisation from 2018-07-15T07:00:04

Dr. Dawson is a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies and the Department of Religious Studies. He has served as the Chair of both departments. He has published three books...

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Paul Taylor: Psychology of Terrorism from 2018-07-08T07:00:04

Paul Taylor is a Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University, Professor of Human Interaction at Twente University, and director of the Centre for Evidence and Research on Security Threats (CRES...

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Julie Chernov Hwang: Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists from 2018-07-01T07:00:04

Julie Chernov Hwang is an associate professor of political science and international relations in the Center for People, Politics and Markets at Goucher College. She is the author of Why Terrorist...

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Aaron Winter: The Extreme Right from 2018-06-24T07:00:05

Aaron Winter holds a DPhil from Sussex, where his dissertation was on the far-right in post-civil rights America. He is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at UEL. His research is o...

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Joshua Freilich: Criminology and Terrorism Studies from 2018-06-17T07:00:04

Joshua D. Freilich is a member of the Criminal Justice Department at John Jay College. He is the Creator and co-Director of the United States Extremist Crime Database, an open source relational dat...

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Maura Conway: Violent Online Political Extremism from 2018-06-10T07:00:04

Maura Conway is a Professor of International Security in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University (DCU) in Dublin, Ireland and Coordinator of VOX-Pol (voxpol.eu), a EU-funded proj...

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Tore Bjorgo: Terrorist Disengagement from 2018-06-03T07:00:02

Dr. Tore Bjørgo (born 1958) is professor at the University of Oslo and Director at “Center for Research on Extremism: Right-Wing Extremism, Hate Crime and Political Violence” (C?REX). He is also Ad...

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Daniel Byman: Jihadist Terrorism from 2018-05-27T07:00:02

Daniel Byman is a Professor and Senior Associate Dean at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Dr...

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Joel Busher: Anti-Muslim Protest from 2018-05-20T07:00:02

Joel Busher is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), Coventry University. His research examines, 1) the social ecology of political violence and anti-outsid...

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Daniela Pisoiu: Theories of Terrorism from 2018-05-13T07:00:02

Daniela I. Pisoiu completed her PhD study at the University of St Andrews – School of International Relations and the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence on the topic of Islami...

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Donald Holbrook: Al Qaeda Media from 2018-05-06T07:00:06

Donald Holbrook is a Visiting Fellow at ICCT. He became a lecturer at the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion at Lancaster University, UK, in September 2016. Prior to that he was Senio...

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Richard English: Does Terrorism Work? from 2018-04-29T07:00:03

Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also Distinguished Professorial Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and...

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Richard Jackson: Critical Terrorism Studies from 2018-04-22T07:00:03

Richard Jackson is Professor of Peace Studies and Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is known as one of the founding scholars of th...

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Petter Nesser: Islamist Terrorism in Europe from 2018-04-15T07:00:03

Petter Nesser is a senior researcher at FFI’s Terrorism Research Group. He is trained in the areas of Social Science, Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic at the University of Oslo (UiO) and The Ameri...

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The Good Friday Agreement: Anthill Podcast from 2018-04-11T08:36:41

April 10, 2018, was the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement. The Agreement is seen as the cornerstone of the existing peace in Northern Ireland.

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Noemie Bouhana: Terrorism in Context from 2018-04-08T07:00

Noémie Bouhana is Senior Lecturer in Security and Crime Science at UCL, where she leads the Counter-Terrorism Research Group and convenes the MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism. She ho...

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Michael Boyle: Costs and Consequences of Drone Warfare from 2018-04-01T17:48:16

Michael Boyle is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at La Salle University in Philadelphia. He was previously a Lecturer in International Relations and Research Fellow at the Centre for th...

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Victor Asal: Teaching about Political Violence from 2018-03-23T16:58:11

Victor Asal currently serves as Chair of the Department of Public Administration and an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. He received his PhD from the University of Maryla...

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James Forest: Inter-Sections of Crime and Terrorism from 2018-03-18T11:16:14

James Forest is Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tu...

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Mary Beth Altier: Disengagement from Terrorism from 2018-03-10T23:58:13

Mary Beth Altier is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. Dr. Altier received her PhD from Princeton University and then worked as a postdoc on a projec...

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Jason Burke: Investigative Journalism and Terrorism from 2018-03-07T15:52

In today's special episode of Talking Terror John Morrison speaks to the Guardian journalist Jason Burke. In the discussion they talk about Jason's journalistic career which has seen him become one...

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Mia Bloom: Children and Terrorism from 2018-03-04T08:13:41

Mia Bloom is Professor of Communication at Georgia State University. She conducts ethnographic field research in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia and speaks eight languages. She has authored ...

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The Private Sector Role, CT and CVE: A Talking Terror Special from 2018-02-28T09:22:12

In this special episode of Talking Terror John talks to Hugo Rosemont, the Director of Security and Resilience Sector at the ADS Group, and Ross Frenett the co-director and co-founder of Moonshot C...

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Thomas Hegghammer: Jihadi Culture from 2018-02-26T08:58:51

Thomas Hegghammer: Jihadi Culture by John F. Morrison

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Boko Haram Part 2: A Talking Terror Special from 2018-02-21T08:28:59

In this second part of the Boko Haram special episode John talks to Hilary Matfess about the role which women play in Boko Haram. It assesses their role within the group as well as as targets of Bo...

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Katherine Brown: Women and Terrorism from 2018-02-18T20:28:55

Dr Katherine E Brown is a lecturer in Islamic Studies at University of Birmingham, specialising in gender, jihad and counter-terrorism. Her research examines Muslim women's involvement in political...

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Boko Haram Part 1: A Talking Terror Special from 2018-02-14T09:50:32

This is the first in a two part episode looking at the West African terrorist group Boko Haram. In this episode John talks to David Otto, the Director of TGS Intelligence and Security Consultants. ...

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Amarnath Amarasingam: Talking to Foreign Fighters from 2018-02-11T10:37:19

Amarnath Amarasingam is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a Fellow at The George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, and Co-Directs a study of Western fore...

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Kumar Ramakrishna: ISIS in Southeast Asia from 2018-02-04T20:13:47

Dr. Kumar Ramakrishna is a tenured Associate Professor and Head Policy Studies, as well as Coordinator of the National Security Studies Programme, in the Office of the Executive Deputy Chairman, S...

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Gary LaFree: The Global Terrorism Database from 2018-01-28T18:55:55

Dr. Gary LaFree is Director of START at the University of Maryland and a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University ...

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John Horgan: The Psychology of Terrorism from 2018-01-21T21:58:40

In this week's episode John talks to Prof. John Horgan a Distinguished University Professor at the Global Studies Institute and Department of Psychology at Georgia State University. He has a PhD in...

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Jeffrey Stevenson Murer: Understanding Collective Violence from 2018-01-15T10:41:30

Dr. Jeffrey Stevenson Murer explores the problems of group violence, inter-communal conflict, and political terrorism through the lens of collective identity formation. Presently he is the Senior L...

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Neil Ferguson: Disengagement from Loyalist Paramilitary Violence from 2018-01-08T07:58:03

Happy new year from all at Talking Terror!

In the first episode of 2018 John talks to Prof. Neil Ferguson, a Professor of Political Psychology at Liverpool Hope University and a Visiting R...

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James Piazza: Repression and Terrorism from 2017-12-19T17:04:56

In today's episode John speaks to James Piazza, a Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of over 30 articles on terrorism, counterterror...

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Paul Gill: Lone Actor Terrorism from 2017-12-11T09:46:56

In this week's episode John speaks to Paul Gill from the Department of Security and Crime Science at University College London. In this episode he talks about his research on lone actor terrorism, ...

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Orla Lynch: Victims of Terrorism from 2017-12-04T12:38:08

In this week's episode John speaks to Orla Lynch from University College Cork about her research and influences. In this they speak about child soldiers, the importance of researching victims of te...

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Kurt Braddock: Counternarratives from 2017-11-29T14:01:55

In this week's episode John returns to the interviewers chair and interviews Dr. Kurt Braddock a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State. Dr. Brad...

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John Morrison: The Role of Trust and Splits in Terrorism from 2017-11-23T20:01:04

In today's 'special' episode the tables have been turned. John Morrison has left the host's chair, replaced by Andrew Silke, and for one episode only is the guest on the show. In this interview Joh...

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Jorge Lasmar: Brazilian Counter-Terrorism from 2017-11-21T18:35:10

In this week's episode John speaks to Prof. Jorge Lasmar of PUC Minas Brazil. In their chat they discuss a range of issues including counter-terrorism in Brazil, the global war on terror, and the i...

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Emily Corner: Mental Health and Terrorism from 2017-11-13T17:03:40

In this week's episode John talks to Dr. Emily Corner from University College London. In their chat they discuss Emily's research on the psychology of terrorism, and the role which mental health ma...

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Max Taylor: Rational Choice and Terrorist Decision Making from 2017-11-06T22:00:09

This week John speaks to Prof. Max Taylor, a visiting professor at the Department of Security and Crime Sciences at University College London and the co-editor of Terrorism and Political Violence.P...

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Rashmi Singh: History and Terrorism from 2017-10-30T17:22:11

In this week's episode John talks to Dr. Rashmi Singh of PUC Minas, Brazil. Their conversation covers the influence of history and archaeology on Rashmi's career, her analysis of terrorism in the M...

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Javier Argomaniz: ETA from 2017-10-24T07:17:48

In this week's episode John talks to Javier Argomaniz of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of East London. Javier discusses the role of th...

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Erica Chenoweth: Civil Resistance from 2017-10-17T08:14:25

In this week's episode John talks to Prof. Erica Chenoweth of the University of Denver. In this interview Erica discusses a range of topics relating to her research and her influences. Included wit...

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Bart Schuurman: Dutch Reintegration from 2017-10-10T10:08:51

In this week's episode John chats to Dr. Bart Schuurman of Leiden University and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. This episode covers a range of issues including the evaluation of Du...

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Terrorism or Mass Murder? A Talking Terror Special from 2017-10-05T13:57:01

In this special episode of Talking Terror John sits down and talks to Anthony Richards and Andrew Silke. In the wake of the October 1st mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada the three discuss two core...

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Sarah Marsden: Deradicalisation and Desistance from 2017-10-03T08:14:51

In this episode John speaks to Dr. Sarah Marsden, a lecturer in radicalisation and protest in a digital age at Lancaster University. The chat covers a variety of topics, but focuses primarily on Sa...

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Laura Dugan: Moving Beyond Deterrence in Israel from 2017-09-26T10:58:15

In this episode John talks to Prof. Laura Dugan of the University of Maryland and START about her research, and the research that inspired her career. In the episode John and Laura discuss the orig...

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Andrew Silke: Prison Radicalisation from 2017-09-20T11:12:49

This is the first episode of a new weekly podcast series by the Terrorism and Extremism Research Centre (TERC) at the University of East London. The aim of this podcast is to provide listeners with...

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