Transatlantic Perspectives in Fighting Violent Extremism: Challenges and Strategies
Preventing violent extremism is one of the key challenges facing today’s policymakers. The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2014, represents an innovative public-private partnership approach aimed at strengthening the resilience of local communities against violent extremist agendas. The panelists will explore and discuss the role GCERF can play in bringing together governments, civil society and the private sector to address violent extremism and its main drivers. They will also look into the broader international setting in which preventing violent extremist activities takes place today and discuss the best ways to go forward to coordinate international efforts.
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Overview
The 3rd Annual Swiss Day marks the ongoing collaboration between the Wilson Center and the Europa Institut at the University of Zurich.
Preventing violent extremism is one of the key challenges facing today’s policymakers. The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2014, represents an innovative public-private partnership approach aimed at strengthening the resilience of local communities against violent extremist agendas.
The panelists will explore and discuss the role GCERF can play in bringing together governments, civil society and the private sector to address violent extremism and its main drivers. They will also look into the broader international setting in which preventing violent extremist activities takes place today and discuss the best ways to go forward to coordinate international efforts.
This event is held in co-operation with the Embassy of Switzerland in the United States.
Introductory Remarks
Ambassador Martin Dahinden
Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States
Andreas Kellerhals
Director, Europa Institut at the University of Zurich
Speakers
Stephan Husy
Ambassador-at-Large for International Counter-Terrorism, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affaires
Khalid Koser
Executive Director, Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund
Jytte Klausen
Wilson Center Fellow and Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation, Brandeis University
Lorenzo G. Vidino
Director, Program on Extremism, George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security
Moderator
Michael H. Van Dusen
Former Executive Vice President, The Wilson Center
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The Global Europe Program is focused on Europe’s capabilities, and how it engages on critical global issues. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues. We examine Europe’s relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our initiatives include “Ukraine in Europe” – an examination of what it will take to make Ukraine’s European future a reality. But we also examine the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE, Europe’s energy security, transatlantic trade disputes, and challenges to democracy. The Global Europe Program’s staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media. Read more
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