Anne Speckhard, Molly Ellenberg, & Sheikh Ali Executive Summary: This article explores prison-based radicalization to militant jihadism in the Maldives, based on in-depth psychological interviews with 20 current prisoners and one former prisoner of Maafushi Prison, and consultations with 22…
"Ransom for Freeing Captives": ISIS-Linked Transnational Networks Formalize their Priority of Freeing ISIS Loyalists from Syrian Prison Camps Mona Thakkar & Anne Speckhard Download PDF here While Western countries in particular still debate about the return of women and children…
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…
Download this report here. Anne Speckhard, Molly Ellenberg, and TM Garret Executive Summary The following report is an interim report of an ongoing study, with the current results based on 50 in-depth psychosocial interviews of white supremacists in five countries…
The Spread of the Sovereign Citizen Movement Around The World ICSVE Guest Research Report Dr. Christine M. Sarteschi as published in Homeland Security Today Sovereign citizens are anti-government, loosely affiliated extremists who deny the legitimacy of their respective governments. Illegitimate governments,…
Anne Speckhard, Wilson W. Warren, Kate Strezishar, & Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today Throughout U.S. history, the Capitol in Washington, D.C., has been the target of violence more times than Americans care to remember; however, the storming…
Mona Thakkar & Anne Speckhard Syria's North Eastern province of Al Hasakah where ten thousand alleged ISIS members have been imprisoned has witnessed disturbing developments in the past month. On Jan 20, around 100 ISIS members employing suicide vests and…
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19434472.2022.2029933 By Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg ABSTRACT This study explores the prevalence of self-reported formal diagnoses…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., Hawwa Abdul Raheem, Kate Strezishar, & Molly Ellenberg[1] Awareness of violent extremism and the process of radicalization has spread throughout the world in recent years, bringing to the table the importance of developing a methodology in order…
Anne Speckhard, Molly Ellenberg, and TM Garret [When I was in the Army National Guard], there were people that knew [I was in the Aryan Nations]. I joined prior to 9/11, but after 9/11 they didn’t care […] I ended…