Understanding Career Foreign Fighters
from Events at USIP Hosted by U.S. Institute of Peace
USIP and authors of the recent RESOLVE Network Research Report, “Career Foreign Fighters: Expertise Transmission Across Insurgencies” hosted a virtual conversation to explain their findings and share insights on the unique challenges that career foreign fighters pose, what we know about their “career” trajectories, their impact in local conflicts, and the implications for current policy and programmatic challenges. They also highlighted recommendations for future efforts to address violent extremism and conflict and to prevent conflict careerists based on their pioneering study. Speakers Leanne Erdberg Steadman, introductory remarks Director of VE, USIP and Interim Executive Director, RESOLVE Network Chelsea Daymon PhD candidate, American University; Associate Fellow, Global Network on Extremism & Technology David Malet Associate Professor of Public Affairs, American University; RESOLVE Research Advisory Council Member, RESOLVE Network Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn Researcher, Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University; Research Fellow, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague Colin P. Clarke, moderator Senior Research Fellow, The Soufan Center; RESOLVE Research Advisory Council Member, RESOLVE Network https://www.usip.org/events/understanding-career-foreign-fighters
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