Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Murky federal plans, and odd bedfellows between law enforcement and counseling professionals, currently threaten to create ethical dilemmas for those in the helping professions—psychologists, counselors, imams and doctors—who may be called upon by the FBI in upcoming…
Huffington Post article by ICSVE Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 28, 2016 By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. For months now disaffected Syrian, ISIS defectors we have been interviewing in our ISIS Defectors Interview Project have been…
For months now disaffected Syrian, ISIS defectors we have been interviewing in our ISIS Defectors Interview Project have been telling us that one of the many reasons that they became disenchanted with ISIS was that their leaders were directly negotiating…
A report written by the German Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) indicated that twenty-nine former German soldiers left their countries to fight for rebel groups, including ISIS, in Syria or Iraq, as reported by local German news .[i] It also claimed…
In Spring of 2007 I was seated on a flight into Baghdad International Airport, on my way into Camp Cropper, where I was interviewing detainees and writing what would become the basis of the Detainee Rehabilitation Program—a plan to try…
Huffington Post article by ICSVE Deputy Director Ahmet S. Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 24, 2016 ISIS has been generating millions of dollars through the sale of women and children abducted from the regions it has conquered. While…
A picture is worth a thousand words. It’s a commonly accepted piece of wisdom—one that groups like al Qaeda and ISIS understand all too well when trying to recruit Western youth into their ranks. Images often speak directly to our…
Marie Claire article quoting ISCVE Director Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. by Kate Storey April 22, 2016 by Kate Storey Shannon Conley met a guy online. She was 19, a normal Colorado teen with glasses and a big, toothy smile. He was 32.…
Macleans article quoting ICSVE research By Jonathon Gatehouse April 22, 2016 A billboard (R) belonging to the Islamic State fighters erected along a road, is pictured after forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad recaptured Palmyra city, in Homs Governorate…
Huffington Post article by ICSVE Deputy Director Ahmet S. Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 21, 2016 By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. The case of twenty-six-year-old Mohamad Jamal Khweis—the American-born son of Palestinian immigrants living…