Jerome Drevon is a researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He obtained his PhD at Durham University in the UK before completing two research fellowships at the universities of Manchester and Oxford. He is particularly interested in networking and organisational approaches to non-state armed groups. He has completed a forthcoming book on the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya and is currently completing a second monograph on the institutionalisation of armed groups in the current conflict.
Education:
MA at Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva; PhD at Durham University
Languages:
Arabic, English, French
Countries of Expertise
Egypt, Syria
Issues of Expertise:
Civil wars and insurgencies, Islamist and jihadi movements, political violence
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) recent seizure of the northern Syrian province of Idlib once again brings to the fore the debate over HTS’ renunciation of al-Qaeda (AQ). But can a group renounce AQ? If so, how should Western countries react, if at all?
