Book Talks with Jessica Davis on Financing Terrorism (Part I)

This episode is the first of a two-part series on the topic of ‘Financing Terrorism’. Beatrice de Graaf, an editor of the journal for Terrorism and Political Violence and historian at Utrecht University, hosts this episode. She kicks-off this series by interviewing Jessica Davis, an international expert on terrorism and illicit financing with a career that spans from intelligence analysis for the Canadian military to bringing evidence-based solutions to the private and public sectors to counter illicit financing and terrorism. She is in the PhD program at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University and has published extensively. Her book Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the Twenty First Century was released in September 2021.

Terrorism and Political Violence is a podcast series produced by the Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence (TPV) in collaboration with Utrecht University. This podcast is comprised of two types of episodes. In Issues up close, editors of the TPV journal will discuss a range of subjects from prominent issues covered by the journal such as the history of terrorism, its causes and consequences, questions concerning political violence and major global trends and threats. In our Book Talks episodes, editors will host conversations with experts from across the field to discuss their current work. More information about this series, and other episodes, can be found on www.uu.nl/tpv. With special thanks to Pieter Veen for the soundtrack