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null Global Connections Speaker: Dr. Julie Chernov Hwang on Why Terrorists Quit

Date: May 31, 2018 to May 31, 2018
Time: 1200-1300
Location: Glasgow Hall, Room 322

As part of the Global Connections Speaker Series, Dr. Julie Chernov Hwang of Goucher College will give a talk to on her book Why Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists on 31 May 2018 in Glasgow Hall, Room 322 from 1200–1330. In Why Terrorists Quit, Dr. Chernov Hwang answers the question of why do hardline terrorists decide to leave their organizations and quit the world of terror and destruction. In her talk, Dr. Chernov Hwang will share what she learned over six years and more than one hundred interviews with former and current leaders and followers of radical Islamist groups in Indonesia. She will discuss the reasons why they rejected physical force and extremist ideology, the impact of public initiatives designed to encourage radicals to disengage and the lives of five radicals from various groups seeking to establish trends, ideas and reasons for why radicals might quit terrorism. 

 

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