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Tammy Palacios is a Senior Analyst and Manager leading the Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism portfolio at the New Lines Institute, 2023-2024
Tammy Palacios is a Senior Analyst and Manager leading the Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism portfolio at the New Lines Institute, 2023-2024 Research Fellow with the Modern War Institute at West Point, and sits on the Steering Committee for the Harvard Humanitarian Atrocity Prevention Lab. Palacios previously served as Program Head for the Nonstate Actors program at the institute, where she worked in the field of violent and nonviolent nonstate actors.
Before joining the New Lines Institute, Palacios served as Project Lead for the MENA Research Team at TTCSP, where she managed two international teams collecting data on think tanks and civil society organizations in the MENA region. Tammy also spent time on the Syria and ISIS portfolios at the Institute for the Study of War, where she focused on Salafi-Jihadist militant groups operating in Syria. She has received accreditations for her business and team management roles and enjoys motivating others.
Palacios earned a master’s degree in security and terrorism studies from the University of Maryland Graduate School. She previously earned a graduate certificate in terrorism analysis from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree in international studies and politics and government from the University of Hartford.
Remarks at the end of this "conversation towards a holistic youth empowerment” hosted by Frimpong Manso Institute and PALI-Global in Ghana.
Learn moreWhat Have We Learned? Paper “Civilian Engagement Strategies of Bad Actors: al Qaeda-affiliate JNIM in the Sahel – Overcoming the U.S. Bureaucracy for Sustainable Development and Security Partnership Outcomes”.
Learn MoreIrregular Warfare and Counterterrorism working group. Paper “Structured Solutions to Irregular Warfare: Countering al Qaeda and ISIS civilian strategies in West Africa to prevent a regrowth of global Salafi-jihadist networks
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Learn MoreTammy Palacios is a Senior Analyst and Manager leading the Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism portfolio at the New Lines Institute, 2023-2024
Tammy Palacios is a Senior Analyst and Manager leading the Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism portfolio at the New Lines Institute, 2023-2024
Policy solutions without buy-in from the people will not be enough to solve the crises affecting its people if the government does not make efforts to bridge its trust gap with a wary populace.
An al Qaeda franchise in the Sahel could create a quasi-state for itself and potentially inspire lone wolf attacks targeting Western interests if it is allowed to keep gaining territory