Ridgway Center director, Dr. Michael Kenney, will be participating in the Eradicate Hate Global Summit this week. He is a member of two working groups: "Innovations in State Prevention" and "Metrics of Success" which will meet on Thursday, September 28. On Friday at 8:30 a.m., he will serve on the panel "Across the Divide."
The Eradicate Hate Global Summit will occur over three days, beginning Wednesday, September 27. The yearly summit was formed as a response to the Tree of Life Shooting, the largest anti-Semitic assault in US history. Participants come from all over the world. The second conference, which occurred last year, saw over 1,600 people attend, either in-person or online.
Dr. Kenney is the Wesley W. Posvar Chair in International Security Studies. He teaches and conducts research on high-risk activism and political violence, organization theory and social network analysis, and ethnography and qualitative research. He is the author of The Islamic State in Britain: Radicalization and Resilience in an Activist Network, which received the 2019 Best Book Award from the Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association. He also authored From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation. Kenney’s work on terrorism, Islamist militancy, and transnational organized crime has appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Psychology, Survival, Orbis, Global Crime, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, and other publications. His forthcoming book project is an oral history of an outlawed Salafi-jihadi network based in London. Dr. Kenney’s research, which includes fieldwork in Brazil, Colombia, Israel, Morocco, Spain, and the United Kingdom, has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the National Institute of Justice, and the United Kingdom’s Home Office, among other organizations.