HOT SPOT BRIEFING Inconvenient Truth: The Global Jihadi Threat

On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, the Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project will host a public talk, “HOT SPOT BRIEFING - Inconvenient Truth: The Global Jihadi Threat," with Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown, former UK ambassador to Yemen. The two decades that followed 9/11 saw a concentrated, US-led international investment in counterterrorism (CT) that suppressed the threat from al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. The risk is that we consider that campaign won, and disinvest from CT in favor of other priorities, at a time when events from Afghanistan to Ukraine to Gaza, Lebanon and Iran increase the likelihood and seriousness of a resurgent global Jihadi threat. Professor Paul Pope, ISP Senior Fellow and LBJ School Professor, will moderate the talk.

• Registration is RECOMMENDED. Registrants will receive any updates regarding the event.
• Lunch will be provided.
• Garage parking is available for a fee at the Manor Garage and the San Jacinto Garage. Parking will not be validated.

BIOGRAPHY

Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown is currently Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project. He also works part-time for the Foundation for Defence of Democracies and holds a number of advisory or fellowship positions with other institutes and think-tanks. He previously completed a full career with the UK foreign service, culminating as Ambassador to Yemen in 2015-2017. He then joined the United Nations and served for five years as Coordinator of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team concerning the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. He is married to a Texan and is based in Austin. He has three adult children.