Dr. Maura Conway is Professor of International Security in the School of Law and Government at DCU in Dublin, Ireland and Coordinator of VOX-Pol, an EU-funded project on violent online political extremism. Conway’s principal research interests are in the area of terrorism and the internet, including cyberterrorism, the functioning and effectiveness of violent political extremist online content, and violent online radicalization. She is the author of over 40 articles and chapters in her specialist areas. Her research has appeared in, amongst others, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Media, War & Conflict, Parliamentary Affairs, and the Social Science Computer Review. Conway has presented her findings before the United Nations in New York, the Commission of the European Union in Brussels, the UK House of Lords, and elsewhere. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Europol’s Counter-terrorism Centre and a member of the Editorial Board of Terrorism and Political Violence.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
