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Anne Speckhard
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Chechen Female Terrorists
Meet Dr. Anne Speckhard:
▪ World-Renowned Expert on Counter Terrorism
▪ Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical School
▪ Expert on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
▪ Forensic Expert Witness
▪ Worked for the U.S. Department of Defense
▪ Director of the Holocaust Survivors Oral Histories Project – Belarus
▪ Consulting Expert to European and Middle Eastern governments as well as the U.S. Department of Defense and Lectures to Security Experts Worldwide
▪ Worked with Victims and Survivors of the Chernobyl Disaster, 9/11 Terrorist Attack, Iraq, Moscow Dubrovka Theater and Beslan School Take-Over,
▪ Interviewed over 400 Terrorists, Terrorists Supporters, Family Members and Associates
▪ Former Chair of the NATO Human Factors & Medicine Research and Technology Experts Group (HFM-140/RTG) on the “Psychosocial, Cultural and Organizational Aspects of Terrorism”
▪ Member of the United Nations Roster of Experts for the Terrorism Prevention Branch Office on Drugs and Crime
▪ Co-Chair of the NATO-Russia Human Factors & Medicine Research Task Group on Social Sciences Support to Military Personnel Engaged in Counter-Insurgency and Counter-Terrorism Operations
▪ Served on the NATO Human Factors & Medicine Research Task Group Moral Dilemmas and Military Mental Health Outcomes
▪ Served on the NATO/Russia Counter-Terrorism Advisory Group
▪ Co-Directed the NATO Advanced Research Workshops – Ideologies of Terrorism: Understanding and Predicting the Social, Psychological and Political Underpinnings of Terrorism and Understanding and Addressing the Root Causes of Radicalization among Groups with an Immigrant Heritage in Europe
▪ Awarded a Public Health Service Fellowship in the United States Department of Health & Human Services where she served as a Research Fellow
▪ Author of Several Books Including Talking to Terrorists
Date Recorded:1/24/2014
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