Student Voices

Welcome to the Student Voices section of our website. Here you can find student op-eds from individual classes, a closed forum for majors and professors, and more. Click on any of the articles below to be redirected to our department’s blog site, and check out what our current students, majors, and recent alums are working on.

May 15, 2025

Soft Counterterrorism

By: Ava Kwong BMC ’26; Image by BBC Traditionally, modern counter-terrorism tactics have revolved around some sort of violence. Drone strikes, the capture of jihadi

May 15, 2025

Why Al-Shabaab Live-Tweeted Their Westgate Mall Attack

By: Ava Conolly BMC ’26 On September 21st, 2013, four Al-Shabaab gunmen charged into Westgate Mall in Nairobi Kenya resulting in a multiple day siege

May 15, 2025

How Counterterrorism can Fail: Repression Fueling Jihadist Recruitment in West Africa

May 15, 2025

Syria’s Instability and Trump Aid Cuts Could Potentially Give the Islamic State Another Chance at Power

May 15, 2025

Opinion: What the Signal Group Chat leaks mean for prospects of U.S. counterterrorism efforts

May 15, 2025

The Struggle for Kashmir and the Dangers of another Indio Pakistan War

May 14, 2025