Aaron Y. Zelin is the Gloria and Ken Levy Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy where his research focuses on Sunni Arab jihadi groups in North Africa and Syria as well as the trend of foreign fighting and online jihadism.
In-Depth Reports
Join us for an expert webcast exploring the complex and varied set of challenges facing jihadist groups that govern territory and the established states that oppose them. Watch live starting at 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) on Wednesday, September 18, 2024.
The jihadist challenge has grown increasingly complex over the years, evolving from a focus on safe havens and alternatively governed spaces to actual governance and statecraft. By this point, jihadist actors from a variety of political, religious, and ideological backgrounds have administered territory from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, necessitating policy solutions that go beyond military strategy and sanctions to focus on state bureaucracy, local economics, great power competition, and other factors.
Watch a live webcast of this event starting at 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) on Wednesday, September 18, 2024.
To address these complexities and offer insights on the current jihadist landscape, The Washington Institute is pleased to announce a virtual Policy Forum with contributors to the new anthology Jihadist Governance and Statecraft, moderated by Matthew Levitt, the Institute’s Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow and director of its Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence:
Matthew Bamber-Zryd, Advisor on Armed Groups, International Committee of the Red Cross
Devorah Margolin, Blumenstein-Rosenbloom Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute; adjunct professor, Georgetown University
