WVIZ ideastream in collaboration with the Cleveland Council on World Affairs is hosting a SPECIAL current events program featuring Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the Director of the Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization. Mr. Gartenstein-Ross will discuss with your students “Bin Laden’s Legacy and Mistakes in the War on Terror.” The program is scheduled for Tuesday, November 22 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the author of Bin Laden’s Legacy (Wiley, 2011), has been described as “a rising
star in the counterterrorism community” by the International Herald Tribune. He has made both academic and
practical contributions to the field.
Gartenstein-Ross’s new book reviews the first ten years of the U.S.’s “war on terror,” examining the evolution
of al Qaeda’s strategy and arguing that America’s failure to understand it has led to grave strategic missteps.
Gartenstein-Ross has also made major contributions to the study of “homegrown” terrorists, those who
were born or raised in Western societies. He co-authored two reports about this subject in 2009, including
Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K., an empirical examination of the radicalization of 117 homegrown
jihadi terrorists that provides a new framework for understanding the impact of religious ideology. He also
studies regions where jihadi groups pose a challenge, and is known in particular for his work on Somalia. He
has presented his research at events sponsored by Special Operations Command Europe (Germany), the
Universität Tübingen (Germany), Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel), National Defense University, and the
Foreign Policy Research Institute, among others.
Date: November 22, 2011
Time: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Schools interested in participating in this FREE current events program, via distance learning, should
contact John Ramicone at 216-916-6360 or john.ramicone@ideastream.org by November 18th.
