Stern on CBC on Terrorism and Flawed Risk Perception
Jessica Stern, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on how terrorist attacks can cause “spiritual dread” and lead us to overestimate the risk posed to us by terrorism.
Stern was interviewed for a segment on CBC Sunday Edition entitled “How ‘Spiritual Dread’ and Flawed Risk Perception Make Us Overreact to Terrorism.”
You can listen to the entire segment below:
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.