Countering Radicalization: Lessons from Europe

Recent attempted terrorist attacks from Times Square to Portland, Oregon by American Muslims have raised questions about the risks of radicalization in the United States. In response, several agencies in the U.S. government have begun devising a comprehensive counterradicalization strategy. In doing so, they are following the lead of certain European countries that have invested significant human, financial, and political capital in counterradicalization programs. The challenges European authorities have had to face are similar to those their U.S. counterparts are expected to confront, and several lessons are at hand from the European experience.

To celebrate the release of the USIP Special Report “Countering Radicalization in America,” by 2009-10 Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Lorenzo Vidino, please join us as we discuss how the U.S. can avoid further radical terrorist threats from within.

This event will feature the following speakers:

• Lorenzo Vidino
  TAPIR Fellow, RAND Corporation

  USIP Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar (2009-10)

• Audrey Kurth Cronin

  Professor of Strategy
  U.S. National War College

• Peter Neumann

  Director, The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation
  King's College, London

• Frank Ciluffo

  Director, Homeland Security Policy Institute
  The George Washington University

• Chantal de Jonge Oudraat

  Associate Vice President, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
  U.S. Institute of Peace