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Sarah Fusco

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Sarah Fusco is a specialist in international and non-traditional security threats, including climate change and national security.

Fusco-Sarah Sarah Fusco is a specialist in international and non-traditional security threats, including climate change and national security. /images/Experts/Fusco-Sarah.webp Sarah Fusco ... , on research related to climate and national security. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in international politics, also from Penn State. She has conducted academic field work in Kenya and Panama. Sarah Fusco ... . Recently, she was assigned to serve as a Global Resilience Policy Advisor in the new Office of Arctic and Global Resilience within the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Fusco

Viral Extremism COVID19 and Nontraditional Threats

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This policy brief, developed in collaboration with counterterrorism (CT) experts at CNA, seeks to answer the question of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected domestic and international violent extremist organizations (VEOs), the US CT community, and the ability of US partners to support CT operations. Importantly, it provides a snapshot of how pandemics and other nontraditional threats can drive a cycle of violence in the future. This brief concludes that nearly every facet of VEO activities—environment, operations, resources, recruitment, and strategy—has benefitted from the chaotic and widespread effects of the pandemic. Conversely, US and partner forces tasked with containing the threat posed by terrorist groups have been affected negatively across these same five areas.

IOP-2021-U-029346-Final Sarah Fusco Cheryl B. Rosenblum