Anne Speckhard & Molly Ellenberg This is a pre-publication manuscript of a chapter for Programs of Deradicalization and Rehabilitation of Convicted Terrorists, in collaboration with Al-Mesbar Center. According to the United Nations and scholarly sources, approximately 30,000 to 40,000 men…
Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shaykovci As published in Homeland Security Today PDF here This paper discusses ICSVE efforts at counter messaging in their Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Project and addresses criticisms pertaining to the use and creation of…
You Must Join the Islamic State features 31-year-old Iraqi Abu Latif. He was interviewed in 2017 in an Iraqi prison in Baghdad, Iraq, by Anne Speckhard. The video clip was video edited and produced by Zack Baddorf and our ICSVE…
Following Shariah in the Islamic State features thirty-three-year-old Abu Said, a defected Syrian, ISIS commander interviewed in November 2015 in southern Turkey by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla. This counter narrative video clip is produced by Zack Baddorf and the ICSVE…
The Good Caliph of the Islamic State features thirty-three-year-old Syrian, ISIS commander Abu Said who was interviewed in November 2015 in southern Turkey by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla.It was produced and edited by Zack Baddorf and our ICSVE team.…
Working for the Islamic State features twenty-nine year old Abu Hashim, an imprisoned former ISIS driver interviewed in Baghdad by Anne Speckhard in January of 2018. This counter narrative video clip is produced by the ICSVE team and underlines the…
By Anne Speckhard Another video clip in the Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Cadres Counter-Narrative Project, "You Blow Yourself Up" produced by ICSVE's Zack Baddorf is based on Anne Speckhard's and Ahmet S. Yayla's interview of Syrian ISIS defector, Abu Abdullah. In this video…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Abu Abdullah, a Syrian ISIS defector, was interviewed in Turkey by the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism's Ahmet S. Yayla and Anne Speckhard after he escaped from ISIS. Today we release the edited video clip…