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Frances Flannery

Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Terrorism and Peace at James Madison University

Frances Flannery, Ph.D. is a biblical scholar who researches apocalypticism in all of its manifestations, from its origins in antiquity to its modern transformations, both peaceful and violent. She is Founder and Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Terrorism and Peace (CISTP at James Madison University), a non-partisan academic think-tank embracing multi-disciplinary perspectives on achieving a sustainable systemic global peace. CISTP bridges academia with the intelligence community, public policy makers, diplomats, NGOs, and faith based organizations to arrive a new partnerships and fresh approaches to confronting the challenges that extremism poses (www.jmu.ed/cistp). Flannery has authored several works on terrorism, including Understanding Apocalyptic Terrorism: Countering the Radical Mindset (Routledge, 2015) as well as numerous publications in biblical studies in the areas of religious experience, mysticism, dreams and visions, ecological perspectives, religion and political debate, and religion and popular culture.

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