Sagit Yehoshua (Guest)

Sagit Yehoshua joined ICSR as an Atkin Research Fellow for Winter 2009.
Sagit holds a Bachelors degree in criminology and Middle East studies and a Masters degree in Applied Criminology from Bar Ilan University at Ramat-Gan, Israel. Sagit is also a PhD Candidate, at King's College London, with her dissertation subject being Profiles of Leaders of Terrorist Groups.
Sagit has focused her studies on the psychology of terrorism and the profiles of terrorist groups and leaders. The research has involved years of interviewing the leaders of major terrorist organisations in Israeli prisons.
Sagit is also a lecturer at Bar Ilan University in the Department of Criminology. She has both designed and taught a course on Profiling of Terrorism in the Diploma Program for Profiling and is a Research Fellow at Institute of Counter-Terrorism (I.C.T.), Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.
To download Sagit's paper on The social- psychology of non- radicalisation: How not to become a terrorist and why, please click here.
Introduction
FREErad!cals is the ICSR blog. It's a forum for debate and fresh ideas on radicalisation and political violence. It features some of the most innovative, young thinkers, discussing radicals and radicalisation. They are looking at how the challenge has been understood, and how it should be addressed.



