by editor | Oct 1, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Islam, Publications
by Steven R. Corman CSC researcher Jeffry Halverson has published a new book on Muslim nonviolence. Titled Searching for a King: Muslim Nonviolence and the Future of Islam, the book is available through the publisher, Potomac Press and at Amazon. At a time when...
by editor | Sep 6, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Indonesia, Publications, Southeast Asia
The CSC has released a new white paper entitled Hate Speech and the Indonesian Islamic Defenders Front by Mark Woodward, Mariani Yahya, Inayah Rohmaniyah, Diana Murtaugh Coleman, Ali Amin and Chris Lundry. The paper looks at hate speech tactics used by the terrorist...
by editor | Aug 29, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Image, Public Diplomacy & Strategic Communication, Publications
by Steven R. Corman I have been following developments in public diplomacy for close to twelve years now. Lately I have noticed something new: Messages in my inbox from Tara Sonenshine, the new Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (whose...
by editor | Aug 28, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Publications
by Bruce Gregory* Sean Aday, Henry Farrell, Marc Lynch, John Sides, and Dean Freelon, New Media and Conflict After the Arab Spring: Blogs and Bullets II. United States Institute of Peace, Peaceworks No. 80, July 2012. Aday, Farrell, Lynch, Sides (George Washington...
by editor | Jul 19, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Counterterrorism, Indonesia, Politics, Publications, Religion, Southeast Asia
by Mark Woodward This ICG report recently reviewed by Chris Lundry is another example of that organization doing what it does best, providing detailed information about the activities of extremist groups linked to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in some way. But in my view the...
by editor | Jul 16, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Counterterrorism, Politics, Publications
By Jeffry Halverson, Bennett Furlow & Steven R. Corman Our study, entitled How Islamist Extremists Quote the Qur’an, released last week, seems to have touched a nerve in some and has generated some negative commentary. To date, we have received no criticism from...