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Contributors
Academy-Department of Thessaloniki on issues of National Security and
Terrorism. She obtained her PhD from the International Research Doctorate in
Criminology of Transcrime (Joint Research Center on Transnational Crime,
University of Trento & Catholic University of Sacro Cuore - Milan), where she
was also an external collaborator. Her doctoral research was focused on Palestinian
female suicide bombers and for this reason she conducted fieldwork in Israel. She
holds an LLM from the Department of History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law -
Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki. She is a member of the EU network of 14
experts on violent radicalisation managed by the Royal United Services Institute
(RUSI) for Defence and Security Studies. Her current research in the Panteion
University of Athens about legislation and jihadi websites is supported with a grant
from the Greek State.
Anat Berko is a Research Fellow with the Institute for Counter-terrorism (ICT),
the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. She lectures in the Center's Lauder
School of Government, Diplomacy and Security, at a seminar at the Center of
Excellence-Defence Against Terrorism in Turkey and for NATO and PIP
(Partnership for Peace countries) military and police forces. Dr. Berko serves on
Israel's Counter-Terrorism Team and the Israeli Council for National Security as an
advisor to senior echelon governmental decision makers. An expert on suicidal
terrorists, she is widely covered in the Israeli and international media. Her book
The Path to Paradise: The inner world of female and male suicide bombers and
their dispatchers (2007) is published by Praeger. Dr. Berko completed her military
career in the Israeli Defense Forces as a Lieutenant Colonel and she holds a Ph.D.
in Criminology from Bar-Ilan University.
Edna Erez Edna Erez is Professor and Head of the Department of Criminology,
Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has a Law degree
(LL.B) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ph.D. in
Sociology/Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Erez has
published over 100 articles and book chapters in criminology and legal studies. She
received around two million dollar in grants from state and federal grants in the US
and overseas, and she has served on review panels for National Institute of Justice
in the areas of violence against women and comparative criminology. She is past
editor of Justice Quarterly, and co-editor of Victims and Violence and International
review of Victimology. Among her recently completed or ongoing funded research
projects are a national study on violence against immigrant women and systemic
responses, policing domestic violence in the Arab/Palestinian community in Israel,
women in terrorism, victims of terrorism, and terrorism, crime and the internet.
Yoram Schweitzer is a Senior Research Fellow at Tel Aviv University's Institute
for National Security Studies, the Director of the Institute's Terrorism and Low
Intensity Warfare project. Mr. Schweitzer is a former official in the Israeli
intelligence community and consultant to the Prime Minister's Office. He
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