Inkblot Project Featured in The Tab
The Inkblot Project, a student-led initiative to educate the public on the evolving issue of violent extremism helmed by students in Professor Jessica Stern‘s IR 500 course, were recently featured in The Tab for an event they hosted entitled “Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?”
The article, entitled “The Inkblot Project, Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?” was published in The Tab on May 3, 2017.
From the text of the article:
The Inkblot Project developed by the Pardee School of Global Studies hosted the event, “Who becomes a terrorist and why?” to enlighten students on radicalization last Friday at the Law Auditorium.
Inkblot hopes to offer “human solutions for human problems” and to debunk the common psyche’s association of radicalization with ideology.
Parents for Peace, an organization which aims to provide help for young people going through identity crises, partnered with Inkblot. The organizations aim to find healthy solutions to “the puzzle of forming an identity that we all go through,” said Myriam Nadri, the Parents for Peace representative at the event.
“Parents for Peace does not make excuses for violence but offers a narrative to explain our complex world,” she added.
The two speakers, Arno Michaelis, former white supremacist skinhead, and Muvin Shaikh, former recruiter in a Salafi jihadi group, were the symbols of this vision on radicalization. Michaelis described how he grew up in a family where he became desensitized to violence and started to reproduce the circle of violence outside the household.
In addition to high-profile public events, Inkblot continues its education effort through its presence on major social media platforms and its website.