Transnational Jihad – Explaining Escalation and Containment
TRANSJIHAD aims at advancing our understanding of one of the greatest contemporary challenges on the international agenda for peace and security, namely the ability of transnational jihadist movements to tap into local conflicts, hence escalating violence.
TRANSJIHAD is led by Dr. Mona Kanwal Sheikh, and is a five-year research project (2019-2023) funded by the European Research Council (StG).
Jihadism 20 years later: Fighting the West while fighting each other
Where does the transnational jihadist movement stand 20 years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? Does it constitute a significant counterforce to the West and its geopolitical interests, or has internal fragmentation made it weaker?
Explaining Transnational Jihad
"Transnational Jihad – Explaining Patterns of Escalation and Containment" is a five-year research project that investigates questions on how jihadist conflicts become transnational and under what circumstances they can be contained. Learn more about the project in this video.