Lecture with Faten Ghosn

This week’s speaker, Faten Ghosn, Associate Professor International Relations, UofA, will present a parsimonious way we can categorize the different Islamist ideologies in order to have a better way of studying their relationship to groups that tend to utilize violence versus those that never do. Just as importantly, it allows us not only to identify which groups we can negotiate with, but under what conditions we can do so. Last but not least, the talk will touch upon some suggestions for the future, given how these ideologies have been utilized to recruit individuals on behalf of ISIS and Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria.