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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><font size="4">What is ISIS? </font></span></b><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><font size="4">Why do Canadians Join?</font></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><font size="3" face="Verdana">Date: Thursday, March 19, 3:30-5:00, with questions to follow.<o:p></o:p></font></b></p>

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 Lorne Dawson, Sociology and Legal Studies, UW and Dr. Amarnath Amarasingam, Dalhousie University</font></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3">In the last two years there has been much </font></span><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 115%;">discussion in the media about "foreign </span><span style="font-size: medium;">fighters,”

who have chosen to travel to <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">Northern Africa and the Middle East to fight in <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">conflicts that do not directly involve their <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">countries.

 We will examine some of their life </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;">stories, push and pull factors, and ask a simple</span></p>

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<b>what makes them do it?</b></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Verdana">The presentation will put a very human face to those willing to accept the ultimate sacrifice to perpetrate very inhumane and dehumanizing acts.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><font size="3" face="Verdana">Lorne Dawson is a Professor in Sociology and Legal Studies at University of Waterloo, he is the Co-Director of the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society,

 and the co-editor of <i>Religious Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond.<o:p></o:p></i></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><font size="3" face="Verdana">Amarnath Amarasingam is Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University and the Co-Principle Investigator for a study of Canadian foreign fighters based at the University of Waterloo.<o:p></o:p></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><font size="3" face="Verdana">Refreshments will be served</font></b></p>

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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><font size="3" face="Verdana">Sponsored by the University of Waterloo

<b>Department of Religious Studies</b>.</font><font size="4"><o:p></o:p></font></span></p>

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