Ellie B. Hearne joins IDSA as a Visiting Fellow for summer 2011. She will complete a research project on counter-terrorism, specifically examining the suitability of 'de-radicalisation' and rehabilitation measures for inclusion in India's internal security apparatus.

Prior to joining IDSA, she spent more than three years at the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York, where she worked on the editing, production, and dissemination of all IPI books, policy reports, and related publications. She also maintained the think tank's library, and held a research portfolio on counter-terrorism issues.

Before that, she worked as a Research Assistant in UNA-USA's Global Policy Program, also in New York, and at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, in Scotland. She received her Master of Arts degree in International Relations, with first class honours, from the University of St Andrews in the UK, and completed her thesis, 'Terrorism, Justification, and Legitimacy: A Case Study of the Provisional IRA', in 2006. She has also studied at Washington College, in Maryland, USA.

Select Publications

• ‘A New Approach? Deradicalization Programs and Counterterrorism’, New York: International Peace Institute, June 2010, with N. Laiq;
• ‘From New York to the Field: A Dialogue on UN Peace Operations’, New York: International Peace Institute, January 2010;
• ‘Participants, Enablers, and Preventers: The Roles of Women in Political Violence’, research paper presented at the British International Studies Association annual conference, Leicester, UK, December 2009;
• ‘Beyond Terrorism: Deradicalization and Disengagement from Violent Extremism’, New York: International Peace Institute, 2008, with N. Chowdhury Fink;
• ‘The Irish Republican Army: From Myth to Mobilization – Irish Folklore and Myth as an Ideology of National Liberation’, International Studies Review, vol. 3 (2006): 83-100.