Summit Against Violent Extremism

The Summit Against Violent Extremism organised by Google Ideas, took place in Dublin in June 2011.Allen McDuffee, Google Ideas think tank gathering former extremists to battle radicalization, PostPolitics, washingtonpost.com, 24 June 2011.
==Agenda==
===Day 1===
*9:30 Opening Video
*9:35 Welcome: Jared Cohen, Google Ideas
*9:45 Idea 1: Finding Common Ground Between Different Extremes (Gill Hicks, MAD for Peace; Susan Cruz, Sin Fronteras; T.J. Leyden, Hate2Hope; Maajid Nawaz, Quilliam Foundation; Noor Huda Ismail, Sekurindo Global Consulting)
*10:35 Fireside Chat: Why are we doing this? (Carie Lemack, Global Survivors Network and Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google)
*11:40 Attendees break out into team sessions
*1:55 Personal Story: Joining Young in Brazil (Alan Lima, anti-gang activist)
*2:00 Idea 2: Patterns of Radicalization: Common Origins but Different Extremes (Farah Pandith, U.S. State Department; Sammy Rangel, Safe Streets Outreach Program; Angela King, consultant; Imam Nurayn Ashafa)
*2:50 Personal Story: Renouncing Violence in Iran (Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, journalist)
*2:55 Idea 3: Crossing the Threshold: Justifying and Renouncing Violence (Amanda Lindhout, Global Enrichment Foundation; Moe Muhamad, Generation Islam; Henry Robinson, Families Against Intimidation and Terror; Usama Hasan, Imam and Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University; James Muvel Wuye, Interfah Mediation Centre)
*4:15 Personal Story: Radicalization and Reconciliation in South Africa (Ntobeko Peni, Amy Biehl Foundation)
*4:20 Idea 4: Fostering De-Radicalization: Countering Risks and Increasing Rewards (Chris Isham, CBS; Paul Carrillo, Southern California Crossroads; Yasmin Mulbocus, MAWAH; Tad Stringham, public speaker)
*5:10 Personal Story: Magical Salvation (Devonte Roque, Magicians Without Borders, El Salvador)
*5:25 Day’s Closing Remarks (Ed Husain, Council on Foreign Relations)Allen McDuffeee, Day 1 schedule of Google Ideas conference on de-radicalization, Thinktanked, wahingtonpost.com, 27 June 2011.
===Day 2===
*9:00 Welcome back (Jared Cohen, Google Ideas)
*9:10 Colombia: Leveraging Formers and Turning the Tide Against Violent Extremism (His Excellency Alvaro Uribe Valez, Former President of Colombia; Vera Grabe, Center for Peace; Ricardo Ramirez, former FARC member; Benildo Tijeras Maldonado; Mark Henderson, documentarian)
*10:00 Mother to Mother: A conversation with Aicha al-Wafa (Aicha el-Wafa, mother of Zacarias Moussaoui; Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton; Norman Benotman, Quilliam Foundation; Arno Michaels, Life After Hate; Ben Owens, Detours Monitoring Group)
*11:40 Idea 6: Deformed Social Network (Shona Brown, Google; Mubin Shaikh, PhD student; Ruth Rach, teacher; Tim Zaal, Simon Wiesenthal Center; Mario Van Niekerk, GCU Academy)
*1:30 Team Session 2
*2:50 Team Session 3
*3:50 Idea 7: Changing Directions: Countering Violent Extremism with Positive Activism (Jared Cohen, Google Ideas; Frank Meeink, Harmony Through Hockey; Abu Muntasir, JIMA; Imam Sani Isa, Interfaith Mediation Centre; Tahir Wadood Malik, Pakistan Terrorism Survivors Network; Rudy Corpuz, United Playaz)
*4:45 Closing (James M. Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations; Jared Cohen, Google Ideas; Ed Husain, Council on Foreign Relations).Allen McDuffee, Day 2 schedule of Google Ideas conference on de-radicalization, ThinkTanked, washingtonpost.com, 27 July 2011.
==External Resources==
*Jared Cohen, Google Ideas launches Summit Against Violent Extremism, Google Public Policy Blog, 27 June 2011.
*Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Google's big idea against extremism needs to learn the important maxim of political violence: "no justice, no peace"?, openDemocracy, 13 July 2011.
==Notes==
Category:ConferencesCategory:Terrorism conferences and seminars