Jessica Stern

professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, who studies terrorist groups across religions and ideologies

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Terrorism policy consultant and lecturer on terrorism at Harvard University; co-author of the book ISIS: The State of Terror

Jessica Stern on KCRW

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