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,
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Someone hasjust asked if someone has just asked if we are picking up tweets during the programme. We definitely are. Weve been talking about Donald Trumps trip to brussels today. Donald trump will be flying to sicily to model where there is a two day summit. How do you assess today . It was quite a strange day. You do not have to be a Body Language expert to feel that a lot of the nato leaders, european leaders, were uncomfortable with donald trump standing up on the stage and harrying them about not paying their fairshare harrying them about not paying their fair share for defence spending. The promised mark of 2 of gdp, the majority of nato members do not do that and he essentially lectured them, it could i did me of Inauguration Day when donald trump stood up and talked about all of the politicians behind him saying they we re politicians behind him saying they were benefiting the rest of the country was not. If we look at that in the context of america that is precisely what a lot