Carolyn Gallaher is a professor at American University who has studied the militia movement in the United States. She focuses on the factors that have led to the mobilization of militias in recent years. Carolyn notes in her American University biography that she examines the “politics, internal dynamics and patterns of violence in militias, paramilitaries, private military contractors and drug cartels.” She will discuss the broad range of the American Patriot Movement, which she describes as a right-wing social movement that includes militias, Second Amendment activists, tax protestors and individuals who drop out of the system.
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The Senior Associate Dean at American University's School of International Service, Carolyn Gallaher focuses on organized violence by non-state actors and urban politics. The author of After the Peace: Loyalist Paramilitaries in Post-accord Northern Ireland and On the Fault Line: Race, Class and the American Patriot Movement, Gallaher examines the politics, internal dynamics, and patterns of violence of militias, paramilitaries, private military contractors, and drug cartels among others, and why it can be so difficult for paramilitaries to decommission their weapons and stand down their armed units once an enduring peace agreement is achieved. Originally trained as a human geographer, she's returned to her academic roots to look at the major changes ongoing in the District of Columbia.
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Michael Winship is the Schumann Senior Writing Fellow at Common Dreams, where he writes and edits political analysis and commentary. He is a veteran television writer and producer who has created programming for America's major PBS stations, CBS, the Discovery and Learning Channels, A&E, Turner Broadcasting, the Disney Channel, Lifetime, Sesame Workshop (formerly the Children's Television Workshop) and National Geographic, among others.
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