Dervla Mcneice
Dervla Mcneice is Editorial Programme Assistant at ICCT starting April 2019.
Prior to joining ICCT, Dervla worked as an intern on UNDP’s Preventing Violent Extremism team at the Asia-Pacific Regional Hub in Bangkok, Thailand, focusing specifically on the implementation of PVE National Action Plans in Southeast Asia. She also worked as a research and editorial intern at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Political-Military Analysis.
At ICCT, Dervla’s responsibilities include editorial work on the institute’s publications, as well as research and programmatic assistance on ICCT’s PVE and CT projects.
Dervla holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Leeds, where she completed her thesis on an anthropological analysis of Hezbollah. She also holds a BA International in Economics and Sociology from University College Cork.
May 2016, IS began implementing a strategy aimed at inciting lone actor attacks in Western countries, under the supervision of its “external security” body. This report examines changes in the ways in which IS has claimed credit for violent incidents in Western countries under this strategy in an effort to shed light on the links […]
According to the Global Terrorism Index 2018 (GTI), released in November 2018, South Asia ranked second in regions most affected by terrorism-related attacks and deaths in 2017. The 2018 GTI also notes that three countries in the region—Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India—are amongst the top ten countries most impacted by terrorism worldwide. The GTI, and other […]
Whereas video releases have been central to the Islamic State’s efforts to represent itself to its audiences, an extensive quantitative and qualitative study of these sources over a longer period of time is still lacking. This paper therefore provides an overview and analysis of the entire corpus of official videos released by the Islamic State […]