Shawn Pardazi

Shawn Pardazi’s perspective is shaped by lived experience of radicalization and indoctrination while growing up in the Middle East, including recruitment into a child-soldier program, as detailed in his memoir, The Patriot Jihadi.

That experience, followed by nearly three decades in U.S. law enforcement and special investigations, informs his work on terrorism, extremist recruitment, indoctrination, and the cultural dynamics that can enable them.