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On the Road to the RESOLVE Network Global Forum: Key Speakers Sahar Aziz and Marc Sageman

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Hosted by the United States Institute of Peace, the RESOLVE Network Annual Forum is one of the most highly anticipated events of the early fall season in Washington, DC. Drawing an in-person audience of over 200 researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, the full day conference is devoted to elevating the expert knowledge-base on violent extremism through intimate discussions and panels showcasing cutting edge research and interventions. Forum attendees also have the opportunity to engage in person and online with representatives from our 21 Network Partners and members of the RESOLVE Network Research Advisory Group.  

This year we are excited to host a star-studded lineup of top experts from an array of institutions, disciplines, and approaches to contextualizing, understanding and addressing violent extremism. Scroll down to see a selection of our key speakers for the Second Annual RESOLVE Network Forum.  

 

Sahar Aziz

Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers University Law School

Sahar Aziz is Professor of Law, Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, and Middle East and Legal Studies Scholar at Rutgers University Law School. Professor Aziz’s scholarship adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine intersections of national security, race, and civil rights with a focus on the adverse impact of national security laws and policies on racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in the U.S. Her research also investigates the relationship between authoritarianism, terrorism, and rule of law in Egypt. She is the founding director of the interdisciplinary Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Civil Rights. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark. She teaches courses on national security, critical race theory, evidence, torts, and Middle East law.

Professor Aziz’s academic articles have been published in the Harvard National Security JournalNebraska Law ReviewGeorge Washington International Law ReviewPenn State Law Review, and the Texas Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Journal. Her book The Muslim Menace: The Racialization of Religion in the Post-9/11 Era is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. In 2015, Professor Aziz was named an Emerging Scholar by Diverse Issues in Higher Education and recipient of the Derrick Bell Award from the American Association of Law Schools Minority Section. In 2017, she was selected as the recipient of the Research Making an Impact Award by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU).

 

Dr. Marc Sageman,

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Dr. Marc Sageman is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Center for the Study of Terrorism and founder of Sageman Consulting, LLC. After a year at the U.S. Secret Service, he was the New York Police Department’s first “scholar in residence” for over a year. For three and a half years, he was the special advisor to the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff (Intelligence) on the “insider threat,” including terrorists and spies. In the fall of 2012, he was ISAF Political Scientist looking at the Insider Threat in Afghanistan.

Dr. Sageman is the author of Understanding Terror NetworksLeaderless JihadMisunderstanding Terrorism, and several studies on the process of radicalization. His new book, Turning to Political Violence, describes a new model of this process and testing it on various campaigns of political violence spanning two centuries and four continents.

Stay tuned for more Forum highlights as we get closer to September 27th.

 

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