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A new RAND report entitled, “Promoting Online Voices for Countering Violent Extremism” by Todd C. Helmus, Erin York, and Peter Chalk was an extensive study on the effects of social media and other online resources to counter violent narratives. The authors of the report describe how al -Qa’ida and its followers have used the Internet [...]
April 22, 2013 | KCRW, To the Point
The suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been charged with using weapons of mass destruction, a charge which can carry the death penalty. We hear about his condition and how he’s being treated by federal authorities.
April 19, 2013 | National Journal
by Michael Hirsh
Based on what we know so far, the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were likely self-motivated terrorists who were probably not part of a larger al Qaida plot, but may well have been inspired and perhaps prepared in part by ideology and training from the global jihadist network. Based on police reports and witness testimony, the older brother, 26-year-old Tamarlan Tsarnaev…
April 18, 2013 | National Journal
by Micahel Hirsh
Until this week, Americans had been living in something of a bubble. Nothing like the Boston Marathon bombing had happened to us for a very long time—since around Sept. 11, 2001, in fact. Despite repeated waves of overseas terrorism from Europe to the Middle East, the United States had avoided the epidemic of IEDs.
April 18, 2013 | Washington, DC WORDE extends its heartfelt sympathies to the victims, friends, and families of those struck by the Boston Marathon bombings. We join our fellow Americans in strongly condemning all acts of terrorism, and the loss of innocent lives. It is in these times of crisis that we come together as [...]
November 2012 | Pakistan
In November, 2012, the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) hosted WORDE Specialist Ziad Alahdad for a launch of the monograph, “Pakistan Energy Sector: From Crisis to Crisis-Breaking the Chain” (published by PIDE, and available for purchase in Pakistan.)
November 13, 2012 Common Ground News Service, Mehreen Farooq Washington, DC – Less than two years after the Pakistani military drew down its counter-insurgency operations in the picturesque Swat valley, Pakistan’s frontier region is once again being rocked by suicide attacks and targeted killings. While the country may appear to be locked in an entrenched [...]
October 2012
The ninth edition of “Our WORDE” includes information about our latest initiatives in working with Muslim communities to counter extremism in the US, Singapore, Malaysia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Salafist Movements Threaten World Cultural Heritage
November 15, 2012 | Al-Monitor by Dr. Hedieh Mirahmadi The face of radical Islamism has rocked headlines in recent months, demonstrating to the world the threat it poses to Islam’s own cultural heritage. Many were shocked when spiritual leader Said Efandi al-Chirkawi was killed in a suicide bombing in the tiny Russian Republic of Dagestan by a [...]