Stern Meets With IMCTC Secretary General
Jessica Stern, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, met with the Secretary General of the Islamic Military Counter-Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) on November 28, 2017
The IMCTC is an intergovernmental counter-terrorist alliance of countries in the Muslim world, united around military intervention against ISIS and other counter-terrorist activities.
Stern spoke with the Secretary General of the IMCTC, Lieutenant General Abdulelah AlSaleh, to discuss the inaugural meeting of the 41-member coalition whose aim is to protect Muslim countries from all terrorist groups and terrorist organizations irrespective of their sect and name.
During the visit, Stern also visited Etidal, the new Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Rihadh.
Jessica Stern’s main focus is on perpetrators of violence and the possible connections between trauma and terror. She has written on terrorist groups across religions and ideologies, among them neo-Nazis, Islamists, anarchists, and white supremacists. She has also written about counter-radicalization programs for both neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorists. She has been working with a team at Boston Children’s Hospital on the risk factors for violence among Somali-refugee youth. She is currently working on a study of Radovan Karadzic, indicted for war crimes in Bosnia.