{"id":30791,"date":"2017-11-13T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=30791"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:45:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:45:25","slug":"stern-speaks-at-medays-forum-on-global-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/11\/13\/stern-speaks-at-medays-forum-on-global-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Stern Speaks at MEDays Forum on Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/11\/stern_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/11\/stern_resized-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"jessica-stern---richard-howard\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/11\/stern_resized-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/11\/stern_resized.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jessica-stern\/\">Jessica Stern<\/a><span>,\u00a0<\/span><span>Research Professor at the\u00a0<\/span><span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University<\/span><span>, spoke as part of a panel on global terrorism at the MEDays Conference in Tangier, Morocco on November 11, 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The conference, entitled\u00a0\u201cFrom Defiance to Challenges: The Era of Major Upheavals,&#8221; is\u00a0<span>one of\u00a0<\/span>the main international geo-strategic events in Africa and in the Arab World. The forum\u00a0<span>consists of about 30 sessions and panels\u00a0featuring\u00a0a 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stern spoke during the portion of the conference focused on geopolitics, as part of a panel entitled &#8220;<span>Global Terrorism: What New International Security Model to Deal with Transnational Threats?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jessica-stern\/\">Jessica Stern<\/a><span>\u2019s main focus is on perpetrators of violence and the possible connections between trauma and terror.\u00a0 She has written on terrorist groups across religions and ideologies, among them neo-Nazis, Islamists, anarchists, and white supremacists.\u00a0 She has also written about counter-radicalization programs for both neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorists.\u00a0 She has been working with a team at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital on the risk factors for violence among Somali-refugee youth.\u00a0 She is\u00a0currently working on a study of Radovan Karadzic, indicted for war crimes in Bosnia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Jessica Stern spoke as part of a panel on global terrorism at the MEDays Conference in Tangier, Morocco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414],"tags":[9860,10496,9059,10495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30821,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30791\/revisions\/30821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}