Scott Atran

Scott Atran is a director of research in anthropology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, senior research rellow at Oxford University, and presidential scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. He has studied and written about terrorism, violence, and religion, and has done fieldwork with terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists, as well as political leaders.

We’ll Never Defeat ISIS Like This

THE FACE OF BATTLE

An in-depth report on the inconclusive battle to take one small village exposes the weakness of the strategy to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-biggest city.

Scott Atran, Artis Research | Published Apr 19, 2016