Networks from around the world have been relying on Ford School professor Javed Ali’s expertise in counterterrorism for reports on the Israeli-Hezbollah confrontations. Here are some of Ali’s excerpts from the past few weeks.“IDF launched over 300...
I long had the career goal of working for the U.S. government in the mysterious world of intelligence, with a particular focus on counterterrorism. This goal developed early in my life, shaped by experiences during overseas travel, the sense of...
Javed Ali, Texas Public Radio: "It's a complicated process for any organization to be designated by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization. The State Department and our government take the lead for that. If a designation were to...
Javed Ali, Christian Science Monitor: "More and more, state prosecutors are using domestic terrorism statutes for different crimes being committed, whether they’re extremist-related or school shootings. (The incident in Atlanta) wasn’t just a...
Republican attorneys general from 21 states are calling on President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to declare Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. They argue that the cartels pose a threat to U.S. national...
Javed Ali, Washington Post: “Even though the [laws] have been on the books for years, for some reason it only seems now that prosecutors and attorneys general are using this part of their tool kit to be more aggressive about mass shootings. It can...
Ford School professor Javed Ali has been speaking to the media about lessons learned in the 21 years post-9/11 and the FBI's role in securing top secret documents.
Here is a collection of his recent media interviews in September:
“Better...
Abdul El-Sayed, Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence, has been sought out by the media to discuss a plethora of issues, from climate policy to the upcoming midterm elections. Additionally, El-Sayed regularly contributes to political discourse...
A new ABC News in-depth report found that Americans on the FBI's terrorist screening watchlist are subject to pat-downs, detentions, and extensive interrogation without a trial. Javed Ali, associate professor of practice, weighed in on the...
Islamist terrorist organizations are often described as similar to other criminal organizations, like gangs. A new study, “Willingness to sacrifice among convicted Islamist terrorists versus violent gang members and other criminals,” published by...
Major developments in the fight against ISIS took place in the past week, and the Ford School's Javed Ali, associate professor of practice, whose area of expertise is national security.
Early in the week, a 42-year-old American woman, Allison...
A leader of the Oath Keepers militia group has been arrested in connection with the January 6 insurrection. Javed Ali, associate professor of practice, commented on the charges.
"The charges against Stewart Rhodes send a strong message about the...
In a opinion for the Atlantic Council, Javed Ali said the U.S. has not hit "the peak" of this wave yet, prompting higher security measures from the Biden administration.
"The large number of current domestic terrorism investigations by the FBI...
Now that the United States is fully withdrawn from Afghanistan, what will counterterrorism in the region look like? Javed Ali, associate professor of practice, provided commentary to several outlets.
"I would argue that ISIS-Khorasan has remained...
After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban following the withdrawal of the U.S. military, numerous media outlets turned to Javed Ali, associate professor of practice, for expertise, explanations, and analysis of the situation in Afghanistan.
"I would...
Susan D. Page, professor of practice in international diplomacy, recounted South Sudan's journey to independence on the Deep Dish podcast from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
“On July 9th, it will be the 10th anniversary of south Sudan’s...
“Four months after the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Biden administration has rolled out a series of measures to combat the serious threat of domestic terrorism,” Javed Ali, Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Ford...
Reforms in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have been in the news this week, as it reduced the size of its Counterterrorism Office just as a new DNI, John Ratcliffe, was confirmed by the Senate. Ford School Towsley Foundation...
Marking the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in a CNN opinion piece Towsley Policymaker in Residence Javed Ali and Ford School student Marcella Huber (MPP ‘20) call for the U.S. to take immediate steps to combat a specific looming terrorist...
Each day tech and automotive companies are making advances in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology. With that innovation comes a new threat to our security, warns Javed Ali in a July 21 op-ed in The Detroit News titled “Collaboration key to preventing...
In a new journal article, a team of scientists led by Scott Atran, an adjunct research professor at the University of Michigan’s Ford School and Institute for Social Research, reveals insights into the psychology of radicalization and terrorist...
Maha Arshad (MPP '17) submits this internship field report from her summer 2016 service with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) in College Park, Maryland.Being in the DC area with driven...
Philip B.K. Potter, assistant professor at the Ford School, was quoted in a May 1 Wall Street Journal article on the recent deadly bombing by violent separatist groups in the Xinjiang region of China. In "China President Xi Vows to Crush Separatists...
Security officials in China have blamed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a little-known militant group, for the October 28th suicide car crash in Tiananmen Square that killed five people. While some groups are questioning the connection,...
Following the explosion in Tiananmen Square on October 28th, which Beijing police have labeled a terrorist attack, Phil Potter was interviewed by Sinosphere, the China blog of The New York Times, on the history of separatist violence in the region,...
Free and open to the public. The war in Afghanistan is entering its eleventh year with the debate over continuing or withdrawing often reduced to little more than bumper sticker phrases. Former US ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann will discuss what is at stake, what may be possible and the political and strategic costs of both continuation and withdrawal. About the speaker Ronald E. Neumann is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary and has served as Ambassador to Algeria, Bahrain and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
Terrorism is an inherently social phenomenon. While it is commonly assumed that terrorists kill and die for a cause, they are motivated and strengthened by social connections. This colloquium brings together researchers in this area to discuss terrorism's root causes in the interpersonal relationships between terrorists, competition between terrorist groups within societies, and strategic alliances between organizations. Note as of 10:00am 1/27: Erica Chenoweth and Michael Horowitz will be unable to join us due to inclement weather on the East Coast.
Citi Foundation Lecture,
Policy Talks @ the Ford School
