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Joana Cook

Assistant professor

Name
Dr. J.L.I. Cook Ph.D.
Telephone
+31 70 800 9506
E-mail
j.l.i.cook@fgga.leidenuniv.nl

Dr. Joana Cook is a graduate of King’s College London where she completed her MA and PhD in the Department of War Studies (BA University of Regina). Her research more broadly focuses on women in violent extremism, countering violent extremism, and counter-terrorism practices. More recent scholarly interests include non-state actor governance, and factors and pathways to radicalization. She was appointed Associate Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence in 2020.

More information about Joana Cook

Joana Cook is a Research Affiliate at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London and an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization. Joana is also an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University; a non-resident Fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University; a Research Affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS); and a Digital Fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), Concordia University.

She has presented her research to senior government and security audiences in a number of countries, and at institutions such as the UN Security Council, NATO, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Oxford and Cambridge. She has also been featured in media such as Time, the Telegraph, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the New York Times and on BBC World News, CNN, Sky News, BBC Radio, the National Post and CBC. In May 2019 she did her first TEDx talk on women in security.

She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Regina, an MA in Conflict, Security and Development, and PhD in War Studies (both from King’s College London.

Assistant professor

  • Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
  • Institute of Security and Global Affairs

Work address

Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague
Room number 4.49

Contact

  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police Expert Witness Testimony
  • Johns Hopkins University Adjunct lecturer
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