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Dr Scott Atran in Science and Religion Today: “How Can A Better Understanding...

Scott Atran (May 22, 2012). “How Can A Better Understanding of Sacred Values Help Us Resolve Intergroup Conflicts.” Science and Religion Today Humans define the groups to which they belong in abstract...

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Dr Scott Atran in Foreign Policy: “God and the Ivory Tower”

Scott Atran (August 6, 2012). “God and the Ivory Tower.” Foreign Policy The era of world struggle between the great secular ideological -isms that began with the French Revolution and lasted through...

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

John Mueller (September 9, 2012). “Never have so few been able to frighten so many.”  The Philadelphia Inquirer. As we enter the second year of 9/11′s second decade, anxieties about terrorism in the...

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Charles Strozier & Scott Gabriel Knowles (September 12, 2012). “9/11: A lapse of Memory.”  The Philadelphia Inquirer. The typical student entering college this fall was in second grade on Sept. 11,...

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Professor Charles Strozier discusses Cults on the OWN Network

What is a cult, and how does it differ from a new religious movement? In preparation for their upcoming investigative report on Doug Perry, a cyber preacher who stresses a vow of spiritual martyrdom...

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Dr Scott Atran in The Huffington Post: “The Folly of Defunding Social Science”

Scott Atran (March 15, 2013). “The Folly of Defunding Social Science.” The Huffington Post. With the so-called sequester geared to cut billions of dollars to domestic programs, military funding, social...

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Dr Scott Atran in Foreign Policy: “Social Warfare”

Scott Atran (March 15, 2013). “Social Warfare.” Foreign Policy. With the automatic sequestration cuts geared up to slash billions of dollars from domestic programs, military funding, social services,...

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Dr Scott Atran in Foreign Policy: “Black and White and Red All Over”

Scott Atran (22 April 2013). “Black and White and Red All Over.” Foreign Policy. “Americans refuse to be terrorized,” declared President Barack Obama in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings....

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Dr Scott Atran on “How homegrown terrorists become radicalized” on “America...

Dr Scott Atran on “How homegrown terrorists become radicalized” on “America Live with Megyn Kelly” View the video on foxnews.com

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Dr. Scott Atran discusses What Drives People to do Heinous Crimes and...

Professor Scott Atran on “What Drives People to do Heinous Crimes?” and Terrorism & Mental Health: What’s the Connection?” on RadioMD.  RadioMD is a “community” of health experts and top doctors...

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Prof. Charles Strozier and Kelly Berkell on “How climate change helped ISIS”...

Professor Charles B. Strozier and Kelly Berkell on “How climate change helped ISIS” in Huffington Post.As the Obama administration undertakes a highly public, multilateral campaign to degrade and...

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Prof. Charles Strozier and colleagues on “Climate Change on the Nuclear...

Professor Charles B. Strozier, with colleagues Kelly Berkell and William Blakemore, on “Climate Change on the Nuclear Subcontinent“, published in HuffPost Green.  In a recent blog post, Secretary of...

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Adjunct Lydia Wilson on “How ISIS Broke My Questionnaire”

Adjunct professor Lydia Wilson on “How ISIS Broke My Questionnaire”. Posting in online science magazine and blog Nautilus, Wilson reflects on methodological issues of working with human subjects while...

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Professor Scott Atran’s address to the UN Security Council

                Professor Scott Atran, Senior Research Fellow at the Center on Terrorism, and Presidential Scholar at John Jay College,  addressed the UN Security Council on 23 April 2015, as part of...

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