The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to a webinar book discussion
with Dr. Simon Cottee, senior lecturer in criminology at the University o
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CEP Book Discussion:
Black Flags of the Caribbean – How Trinidad Became an ISIS Hotspot
(New York, N.Y. / London) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to
a webinar book discussion with Dr. Simon Cottee, senior lecturer in criminology
at the University of Kent, regarding his recently published study on the
jihadist hotspots in the Caribbean.
About the Book: The Caribbean does not immediately come to mind when we think
about ISIS. However, in 2017, Trinidad and Tobago ranked first in the list of
western countries with the highest rates of foreign-fighter radicalization,
with more than 240 nationals traveling to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS’s
so-called caliphate.
Dr. Simon Cottee’s book investigates how ISIS came to gain such an unlikely,
yet significant foothold in Trinidad. Based on a three-year investigation in
the country, featuring interviews with the families and friends of those who
left to join the jihad, Muslim activists and community leaders, imams,
politicians, and intelligence agents, this book presents the social forces and
communities in Trinidad that have been affected by ISIS.
Black Flags of the Caribbean – How Trinidad Became an ISIS Hotspot
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
10:30 a.m. ET / 15.30 GMT / 16.30 CET
Speaker:
Dr. Simon Cottee is a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent
(UK), a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a contributing editor at
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. He is the author of Black Flags of the
Caribbean: How Trinidad Became an ISIS Hotspot (I. B. Tauris, 2021); ISIS and
the Pornography of Violence, (Anthem, 2019); The Apostates: When Muslims Leave
Islam (Hurst, 2015; and editor (with Thomas Cushman) of Terror, Iraq and the
Left: Christopher Hitchens and his Critics, with an Afterword by Christopher
Hitchens (New York University Press. 2008). His academic work has been
published in International Affairs, the British Journal of Criminology, the
Journal of Human Rights, Terrorism & Political Violence, and Studies in
Conflict & Terrorism. He is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy, The New
York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The National Post, Vice, and Trinidad &
Tobago Newsday, and serves as a senior advisor on the Investigative Journalism
Project, Media Institute of the Caribbean.
Moderated by:
Liam Duffy is a strategic advisor for the Counter Extremism Project based in
the United Kingdom. Liam previously delivered the British government's Prevent
Strategy – the prevention strand of the overall Counter-Terrorism policy – in
London.
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