Speaker: Vera Mironova, Research Fellow, International Security Program

The speaker will discuss the labor market of non-state armed groups on the ground and at the leadership level, focusing on recruitment, retention, and turnover. 

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

The goal of this panel is to better understand the ongoing crisis in Syria and Russia's role in the conflict. Vera Mironova will discuss the origins of the crisis and how the conflict has evolved and changed over the past few years, drawing on her own fieldwork in Syria which focused on individual behavior during times of conflict. Simon Saradzhyan will comment on what military and policy actions Russia has taken in the region and how Putin sees involvement in the crisis as serving Russia's national interests.

Co-sponsored by the International Security Program

Speaker: Vera Mironova, Pre-Doctoral Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

This seminar examines the main stages of the development of Islamist groups though the prism of the labor market: how groups start and attract prospective fighters (recruitment), their personnel management policies (retention), and when fighters leave and groups disband (turnover)—relying on the primary field data that the speaker collected on the frontlines of the Syrian civil war.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.