Woodward Offers Insights on Terrorists and the Institutions That Educated Them
John D. Woodward Jr., Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, published an article in the Association of Former Intelligence Officers’ (AFIO) The Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies offering insights on a number of terrorists and their connections to Boston-area colleges and universities.
In the article, titled “Terrorists and the Boston-Area Institutions of Higher Learning That Educated Them,” Woodward tells the stories of fifteen terrorists representing nine different Boston-area institutions of higher learning. The piece spans 100 years of terrorist acts committed by students and alumni of Boston University, Brandeis, Bunker Hill Community College, Harvard University, Massachusetts College of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MCPS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Northeastern University, University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston, and UMass Dartmouth. While he avoided making broad generalizations about the terrorists and events described in his article, Woodward did offer some observations and questions for further thought.
The full article can be read online.
John D. Woodward, Jr. is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. During his twenty-year CIA career, John served as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington D.C., East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. His publications include Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age (McGraw-Hill, 2003) and Army Biometric Applications: Identifying and Addressing Sociocultural Concerns (RAND, 2001). Read more about Professor Woodward on his faculty profile.