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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: FOREIGN FIGHTERS ARE NOT FOREIGN TO INSURGENCIES
Description: If you look at all the civil wars over the past two hundred years, you can document foreign fighters in more than a quarter of them
Foreign fighters are "individuals who are not citizens of a state where there is a conflict but who travel to that state to become part of the non-government forces participating in insurgencies," according to our guest speaker Dr. David Malet of American University. Although it is only recently that scholars have taken an interest in people willing to travel to faraway places and fight, foreign fighters have been an integral part of many insurgencies...