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Michael Kenney, an associate professor and program director of international affairs at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, has been commissioned by the British government鈥檚 Commission for Countering Extremism to contribute an academic paper to a comprehensive report on extremism.
Kenney鈥檚 contribution will explore the links between extremism and terrorism through a deep dive into the first UK-based proscribed Islamist group, Al-Muhajiroun. This is an extension of Kenney鈥檚 research into this organization, which is the subject of his recent book, 鈥.鈥 Kenney鈥檚 paper will draw on dozens of interviews with activists and former activists, and hundreds of hours of direct observation of their activities over a period to several years.
His research focuses on Islamist extremism, terrorism and transnational organization crime. He serves on the editorial board of聽Terrorism and Political Violence, the leading academic journal in terrorism studies.