Carolin Görzig

Since 2015 Carolin Görzig has been leading the research group „How Terrorists learn“ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Before that she has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, Uppsala University, the EU Institute for Security Studies and the Rand Corporation and she held a position as assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, U.S. Together with her team in Halle she has conducted field research in nine countries speaking with former and current members of terrorist organizations. As a result she has developed models about learning processes and patterns of radicalization and de-radicalization. Her most known publication is her book Talking to Terrorists: Concessions and the Renunciation of Violence (2010, Routledge) which is based on her PhD thesis and field research in Egpyt, Syria, Turkey and Colombia. In 2015 she published her second book together with Khaled Al-Hashimi titled Radicalization in Western Europe: Integration, Public Discourse and Loss of Identity among Muslim Communities. The edited volume ‚How Terrorists learn‘ by Carolin Görzig and her research team is forthcoming.