Lexington Community Education presents: ISIS: The State of Terror

Jessica Stern is one of the foremost experts on terrorism. Her recent book (co-authored with J.M. Berger), ISIS: The State of Terror traces the ideological innovations that the group deploys to recruit unprecedented numbers of Westerners, and the technological tools it exploits on social media to broadcast its atrocities, and its recruiting pitch to the world. The authors examine ISIS’s predatory abuse of women and children and its use of horror to manipulate world leaders and its own adherents as it builds its twisted society. Tonight Professor Stern will offer a much-needed perspective on the rise of this group as well as how world leaders should prioritize and respond to ISIS’s deliberate and insidious provocations.

Jessica serves on the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law. Jessica is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. She has authored Terror In The Name Of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, The Ultimate Terrorists; and numerous articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. She served on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff in 1994-95.

The event will be held on Thursday, February 4th at 7:00pm at the Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington, Massachusetts. The cost is $10.00.

Pre-registration strongly recommended. To register, using a VISA or MasterCard, please contact Lexington Community Education at 781 862 8043.