Jacob Zenn
Jacob Zenn is senior fellow of The Jamestown Foundation in Washington, D.C and editor of its Terrorism Monitor and an Adjunct Assistant Professor on Violent Non-State Actors and African Armed Movements at Georgetown University. Zenn is author of the book Unmasking Boko Haram: Exploring Global Jihad in Nigeria, published in April 2020 by Lynne Rienner Publishers in association with the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), University of St. Andrews. Follow @Bokowatch
This perspective critically examines some challenges posed to the rule of law and human rights by states’ use of data-driven learning-based artificial intelligence (AI) systems for identifying individuals presenting a threat to national security.
This perspective argues that despite the concern from researchers, policymakers, and the media about terrorist’s use of financial technologies, there is little empirical evidence of the adoption of widespread sophisticated financial plots.
This research paper retells the stories of an individual’s journey to join, dwell and fight for ISIS by examining Zafirr Golamaully’s series of blogs called ‘Dusty Feet’.