Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century

Published on September 16, 2021

In Illicit Finance, CFCS associate fellow Jessica Davis pulls together existing strands of terrorism financing research and assesses where we are in this expanding yet still nascent field. Davis considers how terrorists manage and also obscure their funds to evade detection, going beyond the old adage of terrorism financing to look at how funds are “raised, used, moved and stored”. By digging into the distinction between operational and organisational financing, as well as critically analysing the gender dynamics of terrorism financing, Illicit Money offers exciting new ways of understanding and identifying terrorism financing activity.

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