Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. is Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) and serves as Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. She has interviewed over 800 terrorists, violent extremists, their family members and supporters in various parts of the world including in Western Europe, the Balkans, Central Asia, the Former Soviet Union and the Middle East. In the past five years, she has in-depth psychologically interviewed 273 ISIS defectors, returnees and prisoners as well as 16 al Shabaab cadres (and also interviewed their family members as well as ideologues) studying their trajectories into and out of terrorism, their experiences inside ISIS (and al Shabaab). She, with ICSVE, has also developed the Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Project materials from these interviews which includes over 250 short counter narrative videos of terrorists denouncing their groups as un-Islamic, corrupt and brutal which have been used in over 200 Facebook and Instagram campaigns globally. Since 2020 she has also launched the ICSVE Escape Hate Counter Narrative Project interviewing over 50 white supremacists and members of hate groups developing counternarratives from their interviews as well. She has also interviewed 5 Antifa activists. Dr. Speckhard is active training key stakeholders in law enforcement, intelligence, educators, and other countering violent extremism professionals, both locally and internationally, on the psychology of terrorism, the use of counter-narrative messaging materials produced by ICSVE as well as studying the use of children as violent actors by groups such as ISIS. Dr. Speckhard has given consultations and police trainings to U.S., Canadian, German, UK, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, Belgian, Danish, Iraqi, Syrian, Jordanian and Thai national police and security officials, among others, as well as trainings to elite hostage negotiation teams. She also consults to foreign governments on issues of terrorist prevention and interventions and repatriation, rehabilitation and reintegration of ISIS foreign fighters, wives and children. In 2007, she was responsible for designing the psychological and Islamic challenge aspects of the Detainee Rehabilitation Program in Iraq to be applied to 20,000 + detainees and 800 juveniles. She is a sought after counterterrorism expert and has consulted to NATO, OSCE, UN Women, UNCTED, UNODC, the EU Commission and EU Parliament, European and other foreign governments and to the U.S. Senate & House, Departments of State, Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, Health & Human Services, FBI and counterterrorism and security services as well as appeared appeared on CNN, BBC, NPR, Fox News, MSNBC, CTV, CBC and in Time, Newsweek, Daily Beast, The New York Times, The Washington Post, London Times and many other publications. ICSVE's research has been funded by the EU Commission, U.S. Departments of State, Homeland Security, Defense and Justice, UN Women, and the Embassy of Qatar to name a few. Dr. Speckhard regularly writes a column for Homeland Security Today and speaks and publishes on the topics of the psychology of radicalization and terrorism and is the author of several books, including Homegrown Hate, Talking to Terrorists, Bride of ISIS, Undercover Jihadi and ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate. Her research has also been published in Global Security: Health, Science and Policy, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, Journal of African Security, Journal of Strategic Security, the Journal of Human Security, Bidhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies, Journal for Deradicalization, Perspectives on Terrorism and the International Studies Journal. Her academic publications are found here: https: //georgetown.academia.edu/AnneSpeckhardWebsite: and on the ICSVE website http: //www.icsve.org Follow @AnneSpeckhard
"Anne Speckhard has interviewed some of the most notorious
extremists in America and beyond to produce a stunning insight into
their thinking and beliefs. This is not just another book of
composite cases; it is a book that takes the reader on a journey
into the dark heart of America and the Western world. Homegrown
Hate practically puts you in the interview sessions with these men
and women of violence. These are stories of dispossession, hatred,
exploitation, intense inequality, and cultural violence.Speckhard
brings decades of professional expertise studying terrorism to the
task of answering many complex questions about extremism.Homegrown
Hate is no ordinary book. It challenges the accepted narratives
about the issue and raises important and uncomfortable questions
about the root causes of extremism in modern society."-John Mooney,
The Sunday Times "Timely, incisive reading on the most
controversial and fiery subset in the field of terrorism today:
domestic extremism."-Ambassador Alberto Fernandez, President of
Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN) formerly the Coordinator
for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC) at the U.S.
Department of State - USA "Anne Speckhard's new book affords deep
insights into the minds and hearts of domestic extremists. Once
again, her considerable interviewing skills lay bare the
fundamental psychic processes, motivations and thought patterns
that turn ordinary people into violent radicals. A must read to
anyone who wishes to understand the working of the terrorist mind
up close and personal."-Dr. Arie Kruglanski - Distinguished
University Professor in Psychology at the University of Maryland -
USA "Anne Speckhard did it again! A must-read book. Anne keeps on
focusing on subversive activities that seriously undermine
democracy. The value of this book lies in the in-depth interviews.
There are lessons to be learnt in order to develop and deepen
activities to keep society resilient! All of us have a role."
-Stephen van den Bosch, Superintendent Dutch National Police, CVE
specialist "Dr. Anne Speckhard's firsthand research on behalf of
the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism has
taken her face to face with terrorists and extremists around the
globe. We have much to learn from her research as we collectively
tackle the challenge of extremism and radicalization on our home
front. This book will serve as a critical primer to understanding
the domestic problems of political and social division that we face
as a nation. This book is a must read for anyone interested in
truly understanding the scope and depth of extremism within the
United States."- Zack Baddorf, Executive Director, Military
Veterans in Journalism / Adjunct Professor, NYU "Thirty years in
policing has given me a front-row seat to the intersection of
policing and politics. I have witnessed the disturbing escalation
in rhetoric and violence driven by political polarization. Every
word of Homegrown Hate profoundly resonates with me. It is the most
insightful and intimate look into the making of a domestic violent
extremist I have read. It demystifies indoctrination, details the
role of vulnerabilities in exploiting wounded people, and sheds
light on how people become willing to do horrific violent acts. Dr.
Speckhard's in-depth interviews reveal the disturbing truth of
radicalization, like an iceberg, showing the reader the danger that
lies unseen below the surface."-Robert King, retired commander of
the Portland Police Bureau
"Dr. Speckhard's credentials and psychological background have
enabled her to gain access to so
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