Nicolò Scremin

Nicolò Scremin is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at the University of St. Andrews and a Predoctoral Fellow with the International Security Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His research investigates the role of family in shaping transitional journeys into and out of extremism. Drawing on life history interviews with former extremists in North America and the United Kingdom, his study advances a new mechanism-based model for analyzing extremist life trajectories. By uncovering recurring configurational patterns of mechanisms, his work offers both theoretical and empirical insight into the socio-ecological conditions under which family may fuel processes of radicalization and extremist involvement, or conversely, serve as a critical source of resilience, desistance, and lasting exit.

Mr. Scremin is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University and a lecturer at Università degli Studi della Tuscia (UNITUS), where he convenes the M.A. course on Terrorism and Radicalization. His research has been published in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Small Wars Journal, the International Counter-Terrorism Review, and Mondadori Università. He is the author of Terrorismo: Teorie, Problemi e Prospettive (Mondadori, 2021) and co-editor of Jihadist Terror: New Threats, New Responses (I.B. Tauris, 2019).

Previously, he contributed to terrorism prevention projects and counter-extremism initiatives supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence—National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE). He has also worked as a Research Analyst at Combating Jihadist Terrorism (CoJiT) and as a Researcher at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT). He holds a B.A. with honors in Investigation and Security Sciences from the University of Perugia and an M.A. in Terrorism, Security, and Society from King’s College London, where he graduated with Distinction.