Terror

T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding Jocelyne Cesari argues that the excess of French laïcité on the visibility of religion in France has a boomerang effect on violent extremism.

Eliza Griswold, an award-winning author and current Berggruen Fellow at HDS, writes about Nadia Murad, who escaped ISIS in the fall of 2014 and is trying to bring its members to justice.

Visiting Professor Jocelyne Cesari writes about the recent attacks in France and why the country seems to be a target.

On March 22, 2016, explosions in the main airport and a metro station in Brussels killed 31 people and left 300 wounded. The Islamic State claimed responsibility. In the aftermath of the attacks, during three days of national mourning in Belgium, there...

Visiting Professor of Religion and Politics Jocelyne Cesari speaks with NPR following the November 13 attacks in Paris.

On December 9, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its report on the interrogation techniques employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The committee found that the CIA...

Harvard Divinity School hosted a discussion on May 7 featuring some of Harvard's top scholars on religious conflict and interfaith peace-building in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. Christopher Lydon, award-winning journalist and host of Radio...

A panel at HDS probed religion's place in cruelties, such as the Boston Marathon bombings.