The Center for Global Affairs, New York University
Author: Makenzi Taylor, February 2020.
“This wide demographic of ISIS recruits reveals just how vulnerable and impressionable youth are, while demonstrating the groups’ effectiveness at recruiting via social media. This article examines ISIS’s recruitment strategies through social media during both its reign in 2014 and after it lost control of territory in Syria and Iraq in 2017.”
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Author: Gabby Silberman, January 2020.
“The phenomenon of individuals joining foreign terrorist groups is nothing new, however, it has not been seen at such a large scale. Now countries are left to determine how to handle foreign terrorist fighters who want to return home. This paper aims to address the issue of returning female foreign terrorist fighters from ISIS and the different policy avenues Western countries can implement.”
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