CIAO DATE: 09/2010
May 2010
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
On June 21, 2010, Matthew Levitt, J. Scott Carpenter, and Juan Zarate addressed a special Policy Forum luncheon at The Washington Institute. The event marked the release of recommendations from their forthcoming report (coauthored by Steve Simon, adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations) on Obama administration efforts to address violent extremism. This new study is a follow-up to the Institute's 2009 bipartisan task force report Rewriting the Narrative: An Integrate Strategy for Counterradicalization . Dr. Levitt is director of the Institute's Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence . Mr. Carpenter is a Keston Family fellow at the Institute and director of Project Fikra: Defeating Extremism through the Power of Ideas . Mr. Zarate is a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and senior national security analyst for CBS News. The following is a rapporteur's summary.
Resource link: Fighting the Ideological Battle: The Missing Link in America's Effort to Counter Violent Extremism [PDF] - 15K