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Thursday, September 06, 2018

  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Islamist Foreign Fighters (But Were Afraid to Ask)

    Student Union: Cape Florida Ballroom (Room 316CD)

    In recent years, militant groups in the Middle East, such as the Islamic State and Tahrir al-Sham have attracted numerous foreigners to their cause—but how? Dr. Vera Mironova, a visiting scholar at the department of economics at Harvard University, has spent years studying the motivations of both foreign fighters and the armed groups that recruit them. In that time, she …

    School of Politics, Security, & International Affairs