by editor | Jun 3, 2014 | Africa, Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Counterterrorism, Publications, Strategic Comm.
CSC has released a new white paper: The Narrative Landscape of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Executive Summary This report presents the results of an analysis of the narrative landscape produced in texts by and about al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) from 2007...
by editor | Mar 21, 2013 | Afghanistan, COMOPS Journal, Narrative
by Steven R. Corman A presentation by John Hagel, Chairman of Deloitte, at the recent SXSW conference has been getting a lot of play in the blogosphere. In it, Hagel advocates differentiating story from narrative. While he is right to draw the distinction and gets...
by admin | Jun 21, 2012 | COMOPS Journal
by Steven R. Corman I am currently in Izmir, Turkey attending the 5th NATO SHAPE Conference on Strategic Communication. Narrative has been an important theme at the conference. Gen. John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in...
by admin | May 8, 2012 | COMOPS Journal
CSC Director Steve Corman addressed the 5th NATO SHAPE Strategic Communication conference on June 21st in Izmir, Turhey. The conference gathered over 140 practitioners from NATO member countries. The conference featured a keynote address by Gen. John Allen, commander...
by halverson | Jul 27, 2011 | Analysis, Framing, Government, Islam, Narrative, Politics, Religion
By Jeffry R. Halverson Unlike the protests of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt, the campaigns underway against the Assad regime in Syria have a distinctly sectarian character. The Assad regime is dominated by the Alawites, a little-known esoteric Shi‘ite sect....
by ruston | May 5, 2011 | Analysis, Complexity, Framing, Narrative, Pakistan, Sensemaking, Uncategorized
by Scott Ruston As details pour in regarding this past weekend’s daring raid in which U.S. Navy SEALs killed elusive al-Qaeda leader and world’s most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden, the exact details of the events keep changing slightly. The New York Times titled...