Talking to Terrorists, New America Washington

Dr. Anne Speckhard, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical School, spent over a year conducting research in the field and engaging terrorists in dialogue. She traveled through the West Bank and Gaza, into the prisons in Iraq, down the alleyways of the Casa Blanca slums, inside Chechnya, and into the radicalized neighborhoods of Belgium, the UK, France and the Netherlands.

Please join the New America Foundation’s National Security Studies Program for a conversation with Dr. Speckhard about her experiences and the conclusions she draws in her new book, Talking to Terrorists: Understanding the Psycho-Social Motivations of Militant Jihadi Terrorists, Mass Hostage Takers, Suicide Bombers and “Martyrs.”

Copies of the book will be available for purchase.