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The Repatriation Initiative: Best Practices for Interventions with Foreign Fighter Returnees and Violent Extremist Offenders

  • 1800 Massachusetts Ave NW Suite 401 Washington, DC United States (map)

Please join the Alliance for Peacebuilding on Wednesday, September 15th at 10:00am ET for the third event in our series focused on reducing and tackling the effects of violent extremism, entitled The Repatriation Initiative: Best Practices for Interventions with Foreign Fighter Returnees and Violent Extremist Offenders.

Speakers Include:

  • Liz Hume, Acting President and CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding (opening remarks)

  • Leanne Erdberg Steadman, Director, Countering Violent Extremism, U.S. Institute of Peace (moderator)

  • Jesse Morton, Founder and Executive Director, Parallel Networks

  • B. Heidi Ellis, PhD, Director, Refugee Trauma and Resilience Center and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

  • Michael Niconchuk, Program Director for Trauma & Violent Conflict, Beyond Conflict

  • Sophia Moskalenko, Researcher for National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and Research Fellow, Georgia State University

Earlier Event: September 13
Implications of the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan for Afghan Women
Later Event: September 15
Toxic Polarization: What’s the Left Got to do With it?