Stern in the Boston Globe on Trump and Refugees
Jessica Stern, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on the state of refugees under United States President Donald Trump.
Stern was quoted in a January 27, 2017 article in the Boston Globe entitled “Resettled, Now Unsettled: Muslim Refugees Reel From Trump’s Order.”
From the text of the article:
Jessica Stern, a leading scholar on terrorism at Boston University, said the draft policy would play into the hands of the Islamic State, which hopes to alienate Muslims from the West.
“I’m a child of refugees,” added Stern, whose father survived the Holocaust. “When you think that we could block people running away from the very terrorists that we’re fighting, that is just very upsetting.”
You can read the entire article here.
Stern’s main focus is on perpetrators of violence and the possible connections between trauma and terror. She has written on terrorist groups across religions and ideologies, among them neo-Nazis, Islamists, anarchists, and white supremacists. She has also written about counter-radicalization programs for both neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorists. Learn more about her here.