PEOPLE

Associate Professor of Public Policy Monica Duffy Toft is the Faculty Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Initiative on Religion in International Affairs. Her research interests include the role of religion in international relations and foreign policy, nationalism and ethnic conflict, and civil and interstate wars.

J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life. He is also the Secretary for Social Services and the President of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Boston.

Robert Bosco is currently a Ph.D candidate at the University of Connecticut. His current research focuses on the relationship between security, Islam, and political obligation in Western Europe. 

Ragnhild Nordås is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include the effects of religion on political violence, non-state actors in civil war, state repression, group inequality and conflict, and environmental/climatic factors, and armed conflict.

Lorenzo Vidino has been studying issues related to radicalization and political Islam in Europe for ten years. He has just finished writing the first book on the Muslim Brotherhood in the West (Columbia University Press, 2010) and is currently researching counter-radicalization programs in Europe under a grant from the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Thomas Hegghammer is an Oxford and Paris–educated Middle East specialist who has published, consulted, and commented widely on jihadism and al-Qaida. He is preparing a book about the jihadi ideologue Abdallah Azzam and the first Arab Afghans.

Nelly Lahoud is Assistant Professor of Political Theory, including Islamic Political Thought, at Goucher College. She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 at the Research School of Social Sciences — Australian National University. She is currently completing a manuscript about past and present jihadis.

Assaf Moghadam is Assistant Professor and Senior Associate at the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he directs the CTC’s Shia Ideology Program.

Current Affiliation: Founder/CEO, Homes for Sudan (Sudanaldar)