Jessica Stern
Research Professor Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at School of International and Public Affairs
Schools
- School of International and Public Affairs
- Boston University
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Biography
Boston University
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.
Stern is the coauthor with J.M. Berger of ISIS: The State of Terror; and the author of Denial: A Memoir of Terror, selected by the Washington Post as a best book of the year; Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, selected by the New York Times as a notable book of the year; The Ultimate Terrorists; and numerous articles on terrorism. She has held fellowships awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Erik Erikson Institute, and the MacArthur Foundation. She was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum. Stern taught as a Lecturer at Harvard University from 1999-2015. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she worked in government, serving on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff and as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Stern has nearly completed her training as an Advanced Academic Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis.
School of International and Public Affairs
Jessica Stern , executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), specializes in gender, sexuality and human rights globally. As the first researcher on LGBT rights at Human Rights Watch and a Ralph Bunche Fellow at Amnesty International, she conducted fact-finding investigations and advocacy in relation to Iran, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. Prior to working internationally, she campaigned extensively for social and economic justice in the United States for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, the Urban Justice Center and as a co-founding collective member of Bluestockings Bookstore. A past board member of Queers for Economic Justice, she currently serves on the board of the International Bar Association’s Committee on LGBT Rights and the Law. Educated at the London School of Economics, she teaches at Columbia University. She is frequently quoted in the media, including by Agence France Presse, Al Jazeera, the Associated Press, The Guardian, CNN and The New York Times.
Education
- London School of Economics
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Cases
Fareed Zakaria’s Panel Discuss The London’s Event
June 4, 2017
CNN interviewing Jessica Stern, Pardee School of Global Studies/ College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Watch full interview.
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Counterterrorism Expert On What To Expect After Manchester
May 24, 2017
WBUR interviewing Jessica Stern, Pardee School of Global Studies/ College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “Authorities in the U.K. are beginning to put the pieces together in the aftermath of a deadly attack at a concert in Manchester, England…” View full interview.
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How Terror Groups Prey on the Vulnerable for Maximum Impact
May 24, 2017
WNYC interviewing Jessica Stern, Pardee School of Global Studies/ College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “British Prime Minister Theresa May increased the terror alert level from severe to critical in the wake of Monday night’s terrorist attack in Manchester, England, which killed 22 people and injured dozens more who were leaving a leaving […]
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Attacks on soft targets likely to get worse
May 23, 2017
Boston Globe by Jessica Stern, Pardee School of Global Studies/ College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED a 22-year old Briton of Libyan descent as the suicide bomber in the deadly attack at Manchester Arena in England on Monday night…” View full article.
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Resettled, now unsettled: Muslim refugees reel from Trump’s order
January 31, 2017
Boston Globe Jessica Stern, Pardee School/College of Arts & Sciences Mohamad Al Bardan, a young Syrian engineer who lives in Cambridge, is worried about his younger brother, Ahmad, a dental student in Egypt. Ahmad has been spending summers in the United States, preparing for advanced dentistry studies and possibly a career here, Al Bardan said… […]
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Terrorism is topic of two-day conference in Cambridge
September 29, 2016
Boston Globe Jessica Stern, Pardee School of Global Studies, College of Arts & Sciences The United States is facing an increasing, evolving national security threat from terrorists both domestic and foreign, according to homeland security analysts, who predicted more attacks as military forces proactively work to eliminate organizations such as the Islamic State… Expert quote: […]
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U.S. Attacks Stoke Unease
September 19, 2016
The Wall Street Journal Jessica Stern, Pardee School of Global Studies, College of Arts & Sciences Three violent attacks over the weekend that left almost 40 people injured remained shrouded in questions, but together they fueled growing fears among authorities about terror assaults by small groups, lone wolves or simply deranged individuals. Expert quote: “The […]
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Donald Trump Back-Pedals on Banning Muslims From U.S.
June 27, 2016
Wall Street Journal (subscription required) Jessica Stern, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies Donald Trump appears to be backing away from one of his signature and most controversial proposals—banning Muslims from entering the U.S.—as polls show him falling slightly behind Hillary Clinton… Expert quote: “If we’re just talking about jihadi terrorism, […]
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How Both Barack Obama and Donald Trump Inadvertently Help ISIS
May 4, 2016
Christian Post Jessica Stern, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies Both President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump use overly-simplistic rhetoric about Islamic extremism that is harmful, Imam Abdullah Antepli argued at Faith Angle Forum…Expert quote: “And for this reason, I do believe that Trump is falling into a […]
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Debunked: Terrorist attacks often occur in clusters
April 12, 2016
The Center for Public Integrity Jessica Stern, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies Within hours of the March 22 terrorist attacks in Brussels, New York city authorities deployed roughly 400 National Guard troops at major transit hubs in New York City, and transit police in Washington D.C. also ordered a surge […]
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