Video (above): Originally published September 13, 2020 on Facebook.
Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin on Peer Talks: The Prologue to Terrorist Violence is Early Childhood (Video)
In this second groundbreaking interview with Peer Syed Mudassir Nazar Shah on Peer Talks, Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin discusses early childhood development and the mind and body language of terrorists in “The Prologue to Violence is Early Childhood.”
As the first Israeli to be live-streamed in an interview publicly from Pakistan, Dr. Kobrin and Peer Syed are also the first to attempt to normalize Israeli-Pakistani relations.
About Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, Ph.D.
Dr. Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin began her academic career after receiving a doctorate in comparative literature, with a focus on the Islamic literature of medieval Spain – Ahadith of the Moriscos. She has a tremendous interest in coexistence of the three Abrahamic faiths. A graduate analyst of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis and a PTSD trauma expert, she taught and supervised psychiatry residents in Minneapolis, where she had a private practice.
After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, she was contacted by the U.S. Army concerning her work on the link between the devalued female and the jihadi suicide attack and was invited by the military and law enforcement to lecture on radical Islam and conduct prison interviews among the Somalis in Minnesota. She is also a graduate of the Human Terrain Program, Leavenworth, Kansas, which is affiliated with the U.S. Army.
In 2010, Dr. Kobrin ― an internationally renowned counter-terrorism expert ― emigrated from the Twin Cities to Israel, where she continues her work. She is a fellow of the American Center for Democracy and holds an academic appointment as an external expert at La Universidad de Granada concerning Jihadese, the special nonverbal pantomime language that the Jihadis speak related to early childhood trauma in the maternal attachment.
Nancy is also prolific author. Her works include The Banality of Suicide Terrorism (also in Hebrew), Penetrating the Terrorist Psyche, The Maternal Drama of the Chechen Jihadi, The Jihadi Dictionary: The Essential Tool for Military, Law Enforcement, Government and the Concerned Public (French translation in progress), The Last Two Jews of Mogadishu Living Under Al Shabaab’s Fire, Children Who Kill Children: Before and Beyond Brainwashing (in press), and Cultural Terrorism: The Obliteration of the Cultural Object. Read Dr. Kobrin’s full bio here.
About Peer Syed Mudassir Nazar Shah
Peer Syed Mudassir Nazar Shah is the Sajjada Nasheen of Darbar-e-Alia, Saroba Sharif in Jhelum district. He is also the founder and President of Salook (www.salook.org.pk), an Islamabad-based Sufi think-tank.
