Combating Jihadist Terror
20 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Combating Jihadist Terrorism & Extremism (CoJiT - www.cojit.org) is the independent, not-for-profit research initiative that produces the Combating Jihadist Terror podcast which is hosted and presented by its Editorial Director, Anthony Richards. Dr Richards is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and co-Director of the MSc in Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London and each week on the podcast he and his invited guest explore key contemporary questions and issues within terrorism and counter-terrorism.
Aims & Scope of the podcast: to enhance our understanding of the contemporary terrorist threat, identify the most pressing challenges and consider what the most appropriate responses might be by providing the very latest expert analysis on key contemporary questions within terrorism and counter-terrorism.
Audiences targeted: this series will be of value to all those with an interest in terrorism and counter-terrorism including: Policymakers and practitioners; relevant Think Tanks, organisations and research institutions; Academics, students and University research centres; International audiences; the media and the public.
Our Promise: the interviewees are recognised leading national and international experts in the field and are amongst the very ‘best in the business’ on each of the themes that will be discussed.
Benefits to the listener: these podcasts provide the absolute latest analysis on key contemporary questions, emerging themes and pressing issues within terrorism and counter-terrorism, providing both specialist communities and audiences as well as the media and interested members of the public with immediate, authoritative news and valuable insights into upcoming trends around the globe.
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Episodes
20 – Sarah Marsden
December 06, 2022 11:00 - 23 minutes - 43.7 MBDr Anthony Richards’ guest on this final Series 2 episode of CoJiT’s Combating Jihadist Terror podcast is Sarah Marsden, Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews’ Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. The podcast focuses initially on her work for the Centre for Research & Evidence on Security Threats (CREST), the UK’s hub for behavioural and social science research into security threats. Dr Marsden is currently leading two CREST projects: ‘Constraining Violen...
19 – Elizabeth Grimm
November 29, 2022 18:48 - 21 minutes - 39.6 MBThis penultimate number in Series 2 of CoJiT’s Combating Jihadist Terror podcast sees Anthony Richards joined by Dr Elizabeth Grimm, Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Teaching at the Centre for Security Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Against the background of US missile strikes that killed the leaders of al-Qaeda in August and al-Shabaab in October this timely discussion focuses on Dr Grimm’s new book (co-authored with American University’s Dr Tricia Bacon) ‘Terr...
18 – Sara Khan
April 29, 2022 06:49 - 34 minutes - 25.9 MBThis week on the Combating Jihadist Terror podcast series we are delighted to welcome Dame Sara Khan, previously the Lead Commissioner for the Commission for Countering Extremism who has now been appointed, by the Prime Minister, to a new role as the government’s Independent Advisor for Social Cohesion and Resilience to tackle extremism in our communities. In this episode Dr Richards and Dame Sara begin by discussing the creation of the Commission for Countering Extremism, and the challenge...
17 – Devorah Margolin
April 22, 2022 07:57 - 27 minutes - 20.7 MBThis week on the Combating Jihadist Terror podcast: Anthony Richards is joined by Dr Devorah Margolin, Director of Strategic Initiatives and a Senior Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism, George Washington University. Alongside her work at GWU, Dr Margolin is also a senior investigator with the ISIS Files Project, and the start of this podcast features a discussion about some of the findings that have been unearthed; including interesting insights into how, even for fundamentalists, p...
16 – Katherine Brown
April 15, 2022 08:00 - 23 minutes - 17.8 MBNow on the Combating Jihadist Terror podcast: a discussion between Dr Katherine Brown and CoJiT’s Dr Anthony Richards. Dr Brown begins by outlining what she sees as the difference between CVE and PVE, before examining the limitations of counter-radicalisation and counter-extremism programmes in helping women. Finally, Dr Brown expands on her Humanities for Resilience project - an alternative framework for international development aid that goes beyond the disciplinary boundaries of religious...
15 – Maura Conway
April 01, 2022 06:27 - 26 minutes - 19.3 MBIn this double-length episode of the Combating Jihadist Terror podcast, Dr Richards speaks to Professor Maura Conway. Their discussion begins with a look at classifying extremists and terrorists, they then examine to what extent academics and policymakers should be using the term ‘cyberterrorism”. Finally, Professor Conway expands on her views of how to further research into online extremism, as well as how gender should be used within academic discussions on extremism. Dr Maura Conway is Pr...
14 – Petter Nesser
March 25, 2022 08:49 - 26 minutes - 19.3 MBThis week on Combating Jihadist Terror, Dr Anthony Richards talks to Petter Nesser about jihadi exploitation of refugee streams, and the involvement of refugees in European terrorism. They also touch on Nesser’s categorisation of terrorists as ‘entrepreneurs’, ‘misfits’ and ‘drifters’. Finally, Dr Nesser gives his suggestions for the effective targeting of terrorist networks and advocates for a balance between security and surveillance. Petter Nesser is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norweg...
13 – Kurt Braddock
March 18, 2022 09:06 - 20 minutes - 15.2 MBThis episode of Combating Jihadist Terror features a conversation with Kurt Braddock, Assistant Professor at the School of Communication at American University, Washington, DC and author of Weaponised Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization (Cambridge University Press, 2020). The discussion focusses on attempts to counter jihadi narratives within both violent and non-violent extremism, with insights into how counter-narratives sometimes re...
12 – Raffaello Pantucci
March 11, 2022 10:00 - 26 minutes - 19.8 MBIn this episode of the Combating Jihadist Terror podcast Dr Anthony Richards, COJIT’s editorial director, talks to Raffaello Pantucci, Senior Fellow in the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, London. Dr Richards and Mr Pantucci examine the nature, severity, and so...
11 – Tahir Abbas
March 04, 2022 09:32 - 20 minutes - 14.9 MBIn the first episode of a new series of the Combating Jihadist Terror podcast, Dr Anthony Richards talks to Tahir Abbas, Professor in Radicalisation Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University, The Hague. Professor Abbas is also the Scientific Coordinator of the EU-funded H2020 Drive, which is an international research project spanning five countries (including participation by the Universities of Liverpool and Cambridge in the UK) to examine how social inclu...
10 – Richard Walton
July 23, 2021 09:16 - 18 minutes - 14.1 MBIn this final episode in Series 1 of Combating Jihadist Terror, Dr Anthony Richards speaks to Richard Walton, ex-Head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter-Terrorism Command and now the Director of Counter Terrorism Global Ltd, which provides advice, consultancy and counter-terrorism services to public, private and non-government sectors. Dr Richards and Mr Walton look at the UK’s counter-terrorism PREVENT programme, for which Mr Walton is a strong advocate, as well as discussing the recent r...
09 – Peter Neumann
July 16, 2021 13:12 - 14 minutes - 11 MBIn this penultimate episode of Series 1 of Combating Jihadist Terror, Dr Anthony Richards talks to Professor Peter Neumann about the nature of the threat of Al-Qaeda and ISIS today, in particular of the effects their expansion in parts of Africa and the Middle East on security in the West. Professor Neumann also provides insights into why the UK’s counter-terrorism PREVENT programme has not done as well as hoped, and how we can use the examples of our European neighbours to help improve both...
08 – Max Taylor
July 09, 2021 06:45 - 30 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this eighth episode of Combating Jihadist Terror Dr Anthony Richards interviews Professor Max Taylor, a leading forensic and legal psychologist and co-editor of Terrorism and Political Violence, one of the principal journals on terrorism and political violence. They discuss the usefulness of profiling in determining terrorists and how researching psychological patterns might help to produce some fresh understanding. Professor Taylor also gives his opinion on how affordances can lead to te...
07 – Maria Sobolewska
July 02, 2021 10:06 - 19 minutes - 14.1 MBThis week on Combating Jihadist Terror, Dr Anthony Richards talks to Professor Maria Sobolewska about radicalisation and the new era of the culture wars, how young Muslim Britons are being pushed into extremism by alienation from society and her hopes about the decline in interest in such identity politics as Brexit recedes from memory. Professor Sobolewska is Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester and focuses her work on the representation and integration of immigr...
06 – Ed Husain
June 27, 2021 21:50 - 23 minutes - 17.5 MBIn this special edition of Combating Jihadist Terror, Dr Anthony Richards talks to Professor Ed Husain about his new book Among The Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain. Professor Husain describes what prompted him to begin writing it and expresses his concerns about the increasing tribalisation in British society which has the capacity to lead to extremism and terrorism. He concludes by putting forward, with great passion, his theory on how, through inclusive patriotism, Britons may be ...
05 – Amarnath Amarasingam
June 25, 2021 07:23 - 20 minutes - 15.7 MBNow on Combating Jihadist Terror, Dr Richards interviews Dr Amarnath Amarasingam about conspiracy theories and in particular how these relate to terrorism and extremism. This fascinating discussion covers why such theories – whether Jihadist conspiracies about COVID-19 or the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracies – often engender extremism, and highlights current research on the best methods of helping those recovering from conspiracy indoctrination. Dr Amarasingam is an Assistant Professor in the S...
04 – Lorenzo Vidino
June 17, 2021 16:32 - 24 minutes - 2.84 MBIn the fourth episode of Combating Jihadist Terror, we return to the subject of Al-Qaeda and ISIS as Dr Richards interviews Dr Lorenzo Vidino. Dr Vidino is the Director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, and an expert in the Muslim-Brotherhood, governmental counter-radicalisation tactics and the dynamics of Jihadism in the west. In the podcast, Drs Richards and Vidino discuss the implications of Jihad-inspired African terrorism, the effectiveness of governmental-res...
03 – Paul Gill
June 15, 2021 15:51 - 23 minutes - 2.84 MBIn this episode of Combating Jihadist Terrorism, Dr Anthony Richards and Paul Gill, Professor in Security and Crime Science at UCL, discuss lone actor terrorism. Professor Gill shares the results of his research using empirical data gathered from a data set of over 110 lone actor terrorists. He describes how the Internet is used by lone actor terrorists, what the motivations behind lone actors are, how those motivations sometimes are unrelated to ideology and how online radicalisation is a ...
02 – Andrew Silke
June 12, 2021 16:20 - 28 minutes - 2.84 MBIn this special episode of Combating Jihadist Terrorism, CoJiT Editorial Director, Dr Richards speaks to Professor Andrew Silke, a highly regarded authority in terrorism studies (with over 100 publications) who holds the Chair in Terrorism, Risk and Resilience at Cranfield University's Forensic Institute. Professor Silke gives his understanding of the key take-aways from the inquest into the attack at a prisoner's rehabilitation conference at Fishmonger's Hall, London Bridge in November 2019...
01 – Jytte Klausen
June 08, 2021 14:35 - 22 minutes - 2.84 MBIn the first episode of Combating Jihadist Terrorism, CoJiT Editorial Director, Dr Richards speaks to leading scholar Jytte Klausen of Brandeis University about the nature and severity of the threat presented by the Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorist groups. Professor Klausen discusses her findings from research for her most recent book Western Jihadism: A Thirty Year History (2021, OUP) and outlines her thoughts on the leadership, current motivations and thinking behind Al Qaeda and ISIS as well a...