Understanding ISIS in order to Better Protect the Homeland
Testimony submitted by Dr. Hedieh Mirahmadi to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on January 20, 2016 Chairman Ron Johnson, Ranking Member Thomas Carper and members of...
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Fighting ISIS at Home and Abroad featuring Dr. Hedieh Mirahmadi & Senior...
“Just because you can’t prevent every attack from happening, I’m not sure that, that’s reason to not make an effort. I’d like to think that defeating the ideology that underlies some of this is a...
View ArticleBelonging Nowhere: Marginalization & Radicalization Risk among Muslim Immigrants
Research into the psychology of terrorism suggests that a person’s cultural identity plays a key role in radicalization, so WORDE teamed up with researchers Dr. Sarah Lyons, Dr. Michelle Gelfand, and...
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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Chapter on BRAVE
The Middle East and Regional Transition, Terrorism, and Countering Violent Extremism: What the Next President Will Face Edited by: Rand Beers, Richard A. Clarke, Emilian Papadopoulos, and Paul Salem...
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The Washington Institute’s Report on WORDE
The Washington Institute just released a new bipartisan report on defeating ideologically inspired violent extremism citing WORDE’s community-led efforts as the most developed “whole of society...
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New National Academy of Sciences Publications Highlight’s WORDE’s BRAVE Model
The National Academies of Sciences published its proceedings of a 2016 workshop, “Countering Violent Extremism Through Public Health Practice” in which WORDE Senior Fellow Mehreen Farooq presented on...
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Empowering Egypt to Defeat Radical Islamism
“Empowering Egypt to Defeat Radical Islamism” by Dr. Hedieh Mirahmadi, Dr. Tarek Elgawhary, and Mehreen Farooq. Despite billions of dollars in counter-terrorism measures to capture and kill...
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Frequently Asked Questions about CVE
“Countering violent extremism” or “CVE” is a catch-all phrase that is commonly used to refer to programs that aim to reduce the appeal of ideologically motivated violence that furthers social,...
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