Appendix A
Workshop Agenda
Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events1
Health Approaches in Community-Level Strategies to Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization: A Workshop
September 7–8, 2016
AGENDA
Location: Auditorium—National Academy of Sciences Building 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20418
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
- Review the evolving threat of ideologically motivated violence and radicalization within communities across America.
- Discuss the root causes of vulnerability to recruitment to ideologically motivated violence and radicalization.
- Review relevant conceptual models in health (e.g., public health, health care, mental and behavioral health), and discuss their applicability to countering ideologically motivated violence and radicalization.
- Explore cross-sector and interdisciplinary emerging and novel policy and practice frameworks and issues in countering ideologically motivated violence.
Note: Breakfast will not be served. Boxed lunches will be provided.
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1 The name has since changed to the Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies.
September 7, 2016
8:30 am | WELCOME AND OVERVIEW OF THE DAY Matthew Wynia (workshop chair), director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado |
8:35 am | PANEL KEYNOTE: BRIDGING HEALTH AND COUNTERING IDEOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE APPROACHES Moderator: Matthew Wynia (workshop chair), director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado |
George Selim, director, Office for Community Partnerships, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and White House Countering Violent Extremism Task Force | |
Heidi Ellis, director, Refugee Trauma and Resilience Center; associate professor of psychology, Harvard Medical School | |
9:15 am |
PANEL SESSION I: IDEOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE: WHAT IS IT? IS IT EVOLVING? HOW HAVE WE APPROACHED IT?
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Session Chair: Susan Szmania, senior advisor, Office for Community Partnerships, Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security | |
Speaker: Irfan Saeed, director, Office of Countering Violent Extremism, Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism, U.S. Department of State | |
Speaker: Michael Jensen, senior researcher, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland | |
Speaker: Mark Stainbrook, assistant chief, San Diego Harbor Police; senior fellow, Potomac Institute | |
Speaker: Peter Romaniuk, associate professor, Department of Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York |
10:45 am | BREAK/NETWORKING |
11:15 am | FACILITATED DISCUSSION Facilitator: Laura Runnels, LAR Consulting |
11:45 am | LUNCH/NETWORKING |
12:45 pm |
PANEL SESSION II: RETHINKING THE ROOTS OF RADICALIZATION TOWARD IDEOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE
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Session Chair: Louise A. Flavahan, program officer, Forum on Global Violence Prevention, Board on Global Health, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | |
Speaker: Leana Wen, health commissioner, Baltimore City | |
Speaker: Jalon Arthur, director, Innovation and Development, Cure Violence, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago | |
Speaker: Kiersten Stewart, director, public policy and advocacy, Futures Without Violence | |
1:30 pm | FACILITATED DISCUSSION Facilitator: Laura Runnels, LAR Consulting |
2:00 pm |
PANEL SESSION III: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO COUNTERING IDEOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE (PART 1)
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Session Chair: Joumana Silyan-Saba, director, Strategies Against Violent Extremism, City of Los Angeles, Mayor’s Office of Public Safety; adjunct assistant professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills | |
LOS ANGELES: A CASE STUDY
Speaker: Haroon Azar, regional director, Office of Community Partnerships—Los Angeles, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
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Speaker: Joumana Silyan-Saba, director, Strategies Against Violent Extremism, City of Los Angeles, Mayor’s Office of Public Safety; adjunct assistant professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills | |
Speaker: Michael Downing, deputy chief, Counterterrorism and Special Operations Bureau, Los Angeles Police Department | |
Speaker: Jihad Turk, president and dean, Islamic Graduate School, Bayan Claremont University | |
3:00 pm |
FACILITATED DISCUSSION
Facilitator: Laura Runnels, LAR Consulting |
3:30 pm | BREAK/NETWORKING |
4:00 pm |
PANEL SESSION III: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO COUNTERING IDEOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE (PART 2)
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Session Chair: Joumana Silyan-Saba, director, Strategies Against Violent Extremism, City of Los Angeles, Mayor’s Office of Public Safety; adjunct assistant professor, California State University, Dominguez Hills |
Contemporary Approaches | |
Speaker: Mehreen Farooq, senior fellow, World Organization for Resource Development and Education | |
Speaker: Alejandro Beutel, researcher, countering violent extremism, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland | |
Speaker: Rebecca Skellett, manager, Strong Cities Network, Institute for Strategic Dialogue | |
4:45 pm | FACILITATED DISCUSSION Facilitator: Laura Runnels, LAR Consulting |
5:20 pm | RECAP AND REVIEW OF DAY 2 SESSIONS AND OBJECTIVES Matthew Wynia (workshop chair), director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado |
5:30 pm | ADJOURN DAY 1 |
September 8, 2016
8:30 am | WELCOME AND OVERVIEW OF THE DAY Matthew Wynia (workshop chair), director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado |
8:45 am | KEYNOTE: MODELS OF THOUGHT IN HEALTH AND APPLICATIONS TO COUNTERING IDEOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE AND RADICALIZATION Georges Benjamin, executive director, American Public Health Association |
9:00 am |
PANEL SESSION IV: APPLYING HEALTH MODELS AND APPROACHES TO COUNTERING IDEOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE
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Session Chair: Dan Hanfling, chair, Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events; contributing scholar, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Center for Health Security | |
Speaker: John Hick, medical director for emergency preparedness and deputy chief EMS medical director, Hennepin County Medical Center | |
Speaker: David Eisenman, professor of medicine and public health, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; director, UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters | |
Speaker: Leesa Lin, senior program manager, Emergency Preparedness Research, Evaluation, and Practice (EPREP) Program, Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | |
Speaker: Stevan Weine, professor of psychiatry, director, International Center on Responses to Catastrophes; director, Global Health Research Training, Center for Global Health, University of Illinois at Chicago | |
Speaker: Rajeev Ramchand, senior behavioral scientist, RAND Corporation | |
Speaker: Matthew Wynia (workshop chair), director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado | |
10:45 am | BREAK/NETWORKING |
11:00 am | FACILITATED DISCUSSION Facilitator: Laura Runnels, LAR Consulting |
11:45 am | LUNCH/NETWORKING |
1:00 pm |
SESSION V: A PATH FORWARD
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Speaker: Warner Anderson, assistant professor, Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; formerly director, International Health Division, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense | |
FACILITATED DISCUSSION (PART 1) Facilitator: Laura Runnels, LAR Consulting |
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2:00 pm | BREAK/NETWORKING |
2:30 pm | FACILITATED DISCUSSION (PART 2) Facilitator: Laura Runnels, LAR Consulting |
4:00 pm | CLOSING REMARKS Brette Steele, acting deputy director, White House Countering Violent Extremism Task Force, U.S. Department of Justice |
Matthew Wynia (workshop chair), director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado | |
4:30 pm | ADJOURN DAY 2 |
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