Stern Attends Aspen Security Forum
Jessica Stern, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, attended the recent Aspen Security Forum, a gathering where leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines engage in discussions on the key security issues of the day to answer critical questions about national and homeland security.
Held at the Aspen Institute’s campus in Aspen, Colorado from July 19-22, 2017, the forum is attended by top level present and former government officials from agencies including the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, Justice, and the Treasury; industry leaders; and nationally noted print and broadcast journalists.
This year, former CIA chief John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, attended the forum to speak on a panel entitled “Under Assault,” that focused on the top external and internal threats to national security. The panel was moderated by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
Jessica 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. She has been working with a team at Boston Children’s Hospital on the risk factors for violence among Somali-refugee youth. She is currently working on a study of Radovan Karadzic, indicted for war crimes in Bosnia.