Stern Speaks at MEDays Forum on Terrorism
Jessica Stern, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke as part of a panel on global terrorism at the MEDays Conference in Tangier, Morocco on November 11, 2017.
The conference, entitled “From Defiance to Challenges: The Era of Major Upheavals,” is one of the main international geo-strategic events in Africa and in the Arab World. The forum consists of about 30 sessions and panels featuring a community of 150 high-level speakers representing all of the five continents including heads of states, heads of governments, political decision-makers, representatives of international organizations, CEOs, experts and forefront international figures.
Stern spoke during the portion of the conference focused on geopolitics, as part of a panel entitled “Global Terrorism: What New International Security Model to Deal with Transnational Threats?”
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.