Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Before i address the topic of todays hearing i want to say a few words about whats happening in communities across our country today. This is a time of great pain and unrestfor our nation. Americans are truly outraged by recent killings. Anyone who watched the video of the murder of george floyd has to be horrified and heartbroken. The resulting peaceful protests about police abuse against any american citizen are important and necessary our nation needs to listen to the voices of africanamericans about police brutality. Every american citizen deserves justice under the law. Some of the peacefulprotests have been hijacked by violent criminals. The destructing and looting and arson must stop. Those who commit these crimes dishonor the memory of george floyd and dishonor the cause for which the Peaceful Protesters first took to the streets. Now in a moment of americans to come together to listen and to heal. The goal of this hearing today is to
Yesterday, argentina qualified for the world cup. The last time they didnt was 1986. Were we heard some incredible information and context and history in the earlier panel going back to nearly 1980s and the whole history behind nafta. This panel is where the rubber meets the road. Its about farmers and businesses and workers and investors. And were really excited to give that perspective. I would like to introduce the panelists. Andrea van vugt, shes had a distinguished career in the private and public sector. She was the chief of staff to canadas minister of International Trade and the Foreign Affairs trade adviser to the Prime Minister from 2009 to 2014. A time when canada was engaged in both Canada Europe Free Trade Agreements and the tpp negotiations among any others. A time of a lot of negotiations between canada and its trading partners. Ron bennett, the president of the Canadian Federation of agriculture, the lead association of canadas agriculture association. What where find i
Turkish, syrian border. These forms are essentially isis recordkeeping of foreign fighter, new foreign fighter joiners. Have bright of questions that include name, even mothers name, blood type but also include a lot of really interesting material on previous professions, education levels, religious knowledge, countries travel, people referred them to join isis, people who facilitated their arrival and a variety of other things. Thats the main data from which will be drawing conclusions to be there i get to the limitations of that date in a minute but i would just say the data were smuggled out of raqqa in march of 2016. We validated these data along with the Counterterrorism Center at west point, as well as some of the personal details that were not publicly available to my research and research from others. So last year we wrote a paper on this topic that looked at the regions in the world that had the highest per capita recruitment rate for isis all over the world, included western
We are here to discuss this new paper by my colleagues. I am excited because isis and al qaeda and the recruitment of jihadis is something we talk about a lot. Stagesen see people on debating how this comes about, what do people go join isis and so on. Generally the conversation ranges from i think this, you think that, and ie mode i emote this, and you emotet that. What is exciting today is we ta, which they will talk about in some detail. Let me talk about my colleagues, and i will love them give an overview of the paper. Is a securityt student,xford world employees mixed method roaches understanding local conflict development qualities. Found on twitter. Left, david stern and is a policy analyst at new america. His work focuses on homegrown extremism and the maintenance of new america databases on terrorists in the United States and preventing such terrorism. He was a contributing editor at the polls and interned at the israeli Palestine Center for research in jerusalem. With that,
New america is a think tank in washington dc. The group posted a discussion on how to Counter Terrorism recruitment and how to link them to economic inequality in the middle east. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon and welcome to good america. On behalf of our president , Vice President , thank you very much for coming. I am a senior fellow here at new america. Discuss aare here to new paper by my colleagues. It is entitled all jihad is l oca. L. Im really excited about this paper because isis and al qaeda and the recruitment of of jihadis is something we talk about a lot. You often see people on stages debating how this comes about, what do people go join isis and so on. Generally the conversation ranges from i think this, you think that, and i emote this, and you emote that. What is exciting today is we have data, which they will talk about in some detail. Let me talk about my colleagues, and i will let them give an overview of the paper. Nate rosenblatt is a security fellow,