Ellie B. Hearne

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Archive data: Person was Visiting Fellow at IDSA

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.

Visiting Fellow
Email: elliehearne[at]gmail[dot]com
Phone: +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

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Re-examining India’s Counterterrorism Approach: Adopting a Long View

This article looks at the status quo of Indian counterterrorism policy—which largely favours ‘physical’ or ‘hard’ measures—and proposes that the government adopt a more holistic strategy. Termed ‘Countering Violent Extremism’, this would involve measures geared towards long-term prevention, with greater attention paid to the reasons for which people commit terrorism and to the impact of counterterrorism on communities.

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The Unfinished Global Revolution: The Limits of Nations and the Pursuit of a New Politics by Mark Malloch-Brown

Books about the UN, like the politicians who support it, evidently do better when they make little outward mention of that international organisation. While the cover of most editions of this nine-chapter book is adorned with UN blue and those initials are highlighted in the ‘unfinished’ of the title, the United Nations is mentioned nowhere explicitly until a chapter or two in. This is no criticism: the UN is a flawed body that everyone knows but few understand, and smuggling it onto people's reading lists may be one of the few ways to address that.