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Talking Terror
by John F. Morrison
Talking Terror is a podcast series presented and produced by Dr. John F. Morrison, from the School of Law and Criminology at Maynooth University, Ireland. In the episodes John talks to world leading experts of terrorism and extremism about their research findings and its impact. These conversations will allow the listener to get an in-depth insight into some of the best research on terrorism, from the researchers themselves. Within the episodes the guests will discuss their own research, as well as the research by others who have influenced them. It is our aim that this podcast series will be worthwhile and interesting for a wide ranging audience. From students to professors, practitioners to those with a passing interest in understanding terrorism and counter-terrorism, we believe that there will be something for everyone within each episode.For the most up to date information about the show be sure to follow us on Twitter @Terror_podcast using #TalkingTerrorThis podcast was origi
Episodes
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Erin Kearns: Why Do Terrorists Lie? 'The Lost Episode'
Back in early 2020 I sat down with Erin Kearns to talk about her fascinating research on why terrorists lie. Back then I thought this was going to be one of many more Talking Terror episodes for an upcoming series. However, since then for a multitude of reasons there has not been an opportunity…
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John Horgan and Shadd Maruna in Conversation
This episode was made in collaboration with our friends 'Conversations with Criminologists', an excellent podcast from the Criminology team at University College Cork. This episode was recorded at the 2019 North South Criminology Conference in Cork and includes a conversation between John Horgan...
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Nathan Smith and Emma Barrett: Extreme Environments and Counter-Terrorism
Nathan Smith and Emma Barrett: Extreme Environments and Counter-Terrorism by John F. Morrison
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Nora Quoirin: 15 year old Missing in Malaysia
This is an appeal for an information or help that any listeners could give in the search for Nora Quoirin a 15 year old girl with learning difficulties missing in Malaysia. She went missing from the Dusun resort near Seremban 62km south of Kuala Lumpur. The family believe that because of her...
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David Wells: The United Nations and Counter-Terrorism
In today's episode John talks to David Well's from the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED)about the role which the UN broadly, and CTED specifically play in counter-terrorism and CVE. This episode is sponsored by IB Tauris. If you want a 35% discount on all books from…
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Assaf Moghadam: Terrorist Co-Operation
This episode is sponsored by IB Tauris. If you want a 35% discount on all books from the Middle-East and Politics sections of bloomsbury.com be sure to use the discount code TALKINGIBT19 at checkout. If you or anyone you know is interested in doing an MSc in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism…
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Nicole Tishler: Terrorist Use of Hoaxes
In today's episode John talks to Dr. Nicole Tishler about her research on terrorist hoaxes. This interview focuses on her research for her PhD dissertation for which she was awarded the 2018 TRI Award for best PhD thesis in the field of terrorism studies. This episode is sponsored by IB Tauris.…
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Julia Pearce: Terrorism Risk Perception and Communication
In this episode John talks to Dr. Julia Pearce from Kings College London about her fascinating research on terrorism risk perception and risk communication. If you want a 35% discount on the Middle East and Politics books from bloomsbury.com use the discount code TALKINGIBT19. Also be sure to…
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James Khalil: Deradicalisation in Somalia
in this week's episode John talks to James Khalil.James is one of the authors of the RUSI report Deradicalisation and Disengagement in Somalia. In this episode they talk about the findings of this report and how their potential application. The full report can be downloaded from...
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Daniel Koehler: Deradicalisation
In this episode John talks to Daniel Koehler, the director of the GermanInstitute on Radicalization and Deradicalization Studies (GIRDS). Daniel is widely considered to be one of the world leading experts in relation to radicalisation and deradicalisation. In this episode they concentrate on his...
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Raquel DaSilva: Narratives, Critical Terrorism Studies & Portuguese Terrorism
In today's episode John talks to Dr. Raquel DaSilva about a range of topics. Included this chat are topics such as the role of narratives, critical terrorism studies, and Portuguese terrorism. Thanks to IB Tauris for their continued sponsorship. For 35% discount on all books in then Politics and...
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Mick Williams: Scientific Approaches to CVE
In today's episode John talks to Dr. Michael J. Williams, of the American University in the Emirates, about the need for a more scientific approach to developing and assessing CVE programmes. Thanks as always to IB Tauris for their sponsorship of the podcast. For 35% off Politics and Middle East...
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Vidhya Ramalingam: Researching the Far Right
This episode is sponsored by IB Tauris. If you want a 35% discount on all books from the Middle-East and Politics sections of bloomsbury.com be sure to use the discount code TALKINGIBT19 at checkout. If you or anyone you know is interested in doing an MSc in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism…
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Catherine McGlynn and Shaun McDaid: Radicalisation and Higher Education in the UK
This episode is sponsored by IB Tauris. If you want a 35% discount on all books from the Middle-East and Politics sections of bloomsbury.com be sure to use the discount code TALKINGIBT19 at checkout. If you or anyone you know is interested in doing an MSc in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism…
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William Baldet and Sean Arbuthnot: Prevent
In this week’s episode John talks to William Baldet and Sean Arbuthnot about their experiences as Prevent coordinators. In this discussion they tackle some of the criticisms of Prevent as well as illustrating what Prevent coordinator does. If you want to find out more about Prevent and are in the...
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Erin Saltman: Facebook, Counter-Terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism
This episode is sponsored by IB Tauris. If you want a 35% discount on all books from the Middle-East and Politics sections of bloomsbury.com be sure to use the discount code TALKINGIBT19 at checkout. If you or anyone you know is interested in doing an MSc in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism…
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Launch of MSc in Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies: May 15th
On May 15th 2019 we will be launch our new MSc in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies. At the launch there will be keynote addresses by Lord Bernard Hogan Howe and Prof. Amina Memon. There will also be contributions on a range of topics from Prof. Nick Hardwick, Prof Anna Gupta, Dr. Anthony...
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David Malet: Foreign Fighters
In this episode John talks to David Malet from American University about his research on foreign fighters. As well as looking at the modern day phenomenon the chat discusses what we can learn from the history of foreign fighters. The talk also deals with the key issue of recidivism, and asks the...
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Tricia Bacon: Why Terrorists Form International Alliances
In this week's episode John talks to Tricia Bacon from American University about her research on why terrorists form international alliances. Prior to her employment at American University, Dr. Bacon worked on counterterrorism for over ten years at the Department of State, including in the Bureau...
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Mike Kenney: Al-Muhajiroun
In this weeks episode John Morrison talks to Dr. Michael Kenney about his book The Islamic State in Britain:Radicalisation and Resilience in an Activist Network. Based on extensive ethnographic research this book gives a fascinating insight into al-Muhajiroun and their leadership and rank and…
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Sinead O'Shea: A Mother Brings Her Son To Get Shot
In the first episode of Series 2 of Talking Terror (now sponsored by IB Tauris) John talks to Sinead O'Shea about her documentary 'A Mother Brings Her Son To Get Shot.' This documentary focuses on a mother's decision to bring her son to get shot by violent 'dissident' Irish Republicans. This...
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Anthony Richards: Conceptualising terrorism
Anthony’s research focus has been on conceptualizing terrorism, UK counter-terrorism strategy, radicalization and extremism. He has also published on a wide range of other terrorist related themes including British public and Muslim attitudes towards both terrorism and counter-terrorism, homeland...
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Peter Neumann: Radicalisation
Peter Neumann is a Professor of Security Studies at the War Studies Department, and serve as Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR, www.icsr.info ), which he founded in early 2008. He has authored or co-authored five books, including Old and New Terrorism,...
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Lorne Dawson: The Role of Religion in Radicalisation
Dr. Dawson is a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies and the Department of Religious Studies. He has served as the Chair of both departments. He has published three books, four edited books, and sixty-nine academic articles and book chapters. Until 2008 most of his...
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Paul Taylor: Psychology of Terrorism
Paul Taylor is a Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University, Professor of Human Interaction at Twente University, and director of the Centre for Evidence and Research on Security Threats (CREST). He is interested in how people cooperate. Using experimental, archival and field research, he…
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Julie Chernov Hwang: Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists
Julie Chernov Hwang is an associate professor of political science and international relations in the Center for People, Politics and Markets at Goucher College. She is the author of Why Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists, published by Cornell University Press in 2018;...
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Aaron Winter: The Extreme Right
Aaron Winter holds a DPhil from Sussex, where his dissertation was on the far-right in post-civil rights America. He is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at UEL. His research is on right-wing extremism and terrorism, hate groups and hate crime, and racist and racialised…
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Joshua Freilich: Criminology and Terrorism Studies
Joshua D. Freilich is a member of the Criminal Justice Department at John Jay College. He is the Creator and co-Director of the United States Extremist Crime Database, an open source relational database of crimes committed by political extremists in the U.S. Freilich is the Vice Chair of the...
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Maura Conway: Violent Online Political Extremism
Maura Conway is a Professor of International Security in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University (DCU) in Dublin, Ireland and Coordinator of VOX-Pol (voxpol.eu), a EU-funded project on violent online political extremism (voxpol.eu). Her principal research interests are in the...
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Tore Bjorgo: Terrorist Disengagement
Dr. Tore Bjørgo (born 1958) is professor at the University of Oslo and Director at “Center for Research on Extremism: Right-Wing Extremism, Hate Crime and Political Violence” (C‑REX). He is also Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Police University College (PHS), where he has been Professor of...
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Daniel Byman: Jihadist Terrorism
Daniel Byman is a Professor and Senior Associate Dean at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Byman has served as a Professional Staff Member with both the National Commission on Terrorist...
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Joel Busher: Anti-Muslim Protest
Joel Busher is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), Coventry University. His research examines, 1) the social ecology of political violence and anti-outsider politics, and 2) the implementation of counter-terrorism policy and its societal impacts. His…
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Daniela Pisoiu: Theories of Terrorism
Daniela I. Pisoiu completed her PhD study at the University of St Andrews – School of International Relations and the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence on the topic of Islamist radicalisation processes in Germany, France and Austria and acted as tutor within the Certificate...
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Donald Holbrook: Al Qaeda Media
Donald Holbrook is a Visiting Fellow at ICCT. He became a lecturer at the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion at Lancaster University, UK, in September 2016. Prior to that he was Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St...
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Richard English: Does Terrorism Work?
Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also Distinguished Professorial Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. During 20111-16 he was Wardlaw Professor of Politics in the School of International...
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Richard Jackson: Critical Terrorism Studies
Richard Jackson is Professor of Peace Studies and Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is known as one of the founding scholars of the field of Critical Terrorism Studies, and has published a number of books, articles and chapters on...
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Petter Nesser: Islamist Terrorism in Europe
Petter Nesser is a senior researcher at FFI’s Terrorism Research Group. He is trained in the areas of Social Science, Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic at the University of Oslo (UiO) and The American University in Cairo (AUC). Dr Nesser has conducted extensive research on militant Islamism...
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The Good Friday Agreement: Anthill Podcast
April 10, 2018, was the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement. The Agreement is seen as the cornerstone of the existing peace in Northern Ireland. Our friends in the Anthill podcast interviewed a number of experts about the Agreement, it's key actors, and where it stands today....
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Noemie Bouhana: Terrorism in Context
Noémie Bouhana is Senior Lecturer in Security and Crime Science at UCL, where she leads the Counter-Terrorism Research Group and convenes the MSc in Countering Organised Crime and Terrorism. She holds a BA in Political Studies from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Lyon, an MA in Political...
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Michael Boyle: Costs and Consequences of Drone Warfare
Michael Boyle is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at La Salle University in Philadelphia. He was previously a Lecturer in International Relations and Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews. He is also an...
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Victor Asal: Teaching about Political Violence
Victor Asal currently serves as Chair of the Department of Public Administration and an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. He received his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also, along with R. Karl Rethemeyer, the co-director of the Project on…
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James Forest: Inter-Sections of Crime and Terrorism
James Forest is Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Joint Special Operations University. He previously...
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Mary Beth Altier: Disengagement from Terrorism
Mary Beth Altier is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. Dr. Altier received her PhD from Princeton University and then worked as a postdoc on a project on terrorist disengagement, re-engagement, and recidivism at the Pennsylvania State University....
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Jason Burke: Investigative Journalism and Terrorism
In today's special episode of Talking Terror John Morrison speaks to the Guardian journalist Jason Burke. In the discussion they talk about Jason's journalistic career which has seen him become one of the world leading experts on Islamic militancy, and Al Qaeda and IS specifically. While the chat...
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Mia Bloom: Children and Terrorism
Mia Bloom is Professor of Communication at Georgia State University. She conducts ethnographic field research in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia and speaks eight languages. She has authored several books and articles on terrorism and violent extremism including Dying to Kill: The Allure of...
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The Private Sector Role, CT and CVE: A Talking Terror Special
In this special episode of Talking Terror John talks to Hugo Rosemont, the Director of Security and Resilience Sector at the ADS Group, and Ross Frenett the co-director and co-founder of Moonshot CVE. Their discussion looks at the role that the private sector has to play in both countering…
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Thomas Hegghammer: Jihadi Culture
Thomas Hegghammer: Jihadi Culture by John F. Morrison
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Boko Haram Part 2: A Talking Terror Special
In this second part of the Boko Haram special episode John talks to Hilary Matfess about the role which women play in Boko Haram. It assesses their role within the group as well as as targets of Boko Haram. This discussion is largely based around her recent book 'Women and the War on Boko Haram:...
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Katherine Brown: Women and Terrorism
Dr Katherine E Brown is a lecturer in Islamic Studies at University of Birmingham, specialising in gender, jihad and counter-terrorism. Her research examines Muslim women's involvement in political violence, the role of gender in jihadist ideology, and the gendered impact of counter-terrorism...
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Boko Haram Part 1: A Talking Terror Special
This is the first in a two part episode looking at the West African terrorist group Boko Haram. In this episode John talks to David Otto, the Director of TGS Intelligence and Security Consultants. Within the chat they discuss the history and origins of Boko Haram, the group's links with ISIS and...
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Talking Terror is a podcast series presented and produced by Dr. John F. Morrison, from the School of Law and Criminology at Maynooth University, Ireland. In the episodes John talks to world leading experts of terrorism and extremism about their research findings and its impact. These conversations will allow the listener to get an in-depth insight into some of the best research on terrorism, from the researchers themselves. Within the episodes the guests will discuss their own research, as well as the research by others who have influenced them. It is our aim that this podcast series will be worthwhile and interesting for a wide ranging audience. From students to professors, practitioners to those with a passing interest in understanding terrorism and counter-terrorism, we believe that there will be something for everyone within each episode.For the most up to date information about the show be sure to follow us on Twitter @Terror_podcast using #TalkingTerrorThis podcast was origi
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