• The Role of Arts in Countering Violent Extremism

    The Role of Arts in Countering Violent Extremism

    This article was originally published by “NATO Association of Canada” on March 25, 2019. Reporting on the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the BBC wrote that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) sponsored by numerous global powers surrounded ISIS within a small patch of land near Syria’s border with Iraq. This…

  • Opinion: Returning ISIS foreign fighters, what needs to be done?

    Opinion: Returning ISIS foreign fighters, what needs to be done?

    This article was originally published by “NATO Association of Canada” on March 4, 2019. An American citizen and former college student, Hoda Muthana, left the US four years ago to join ISIS. She is currently being held in a refugee camp in northeastern Syria. President Donald Trump has tweeted that he had directed Mike Pompeo…