World Organization for Resource Development & Education
October 10, 2011 | Press Release
This summer WORDE Specialists Mehreen Farooq and Waleed Ziad travelled to 35 cities and villages across Pakistan to explore avenues for developing civil society’s capabilities to counter extremism. They met with over 100 organizations, from Peshawar, Swat, and the tribal frontier, to Kashmir, southern Punjab, and Sindh to discover how Pakistanis are using madrassas, mosques, shrines, and public debates to counter radical narratives at the grassroots level.
October 24, 2011 | Press Release
This summer WORDE Specialists Mehreen Farooq and Waleed Ziad travelled across Pakistan to explore avenues for developing civil society’s capabilities to counter extremism. They met with over 100 organizations, from Peshawar, Swat, and the tribal frontier, to Kashmir, southern Punjab, and Sindh to discover how Pakistanis are using madrassas, mosques, shrines, and public debates to counter radical narratives at the grassroots level.
December 13, 2010 | Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC — The World Organization for Resource Development and Education (WORDE) releases its new report, “A Community Based Approach to Counter Radicalization- A Partnership for America.”
The report, one of the first Muslim-led initiatives to address the threat of homegrown terrorism, calls for a national public dialogue on the growing threat of religiously motivated violence. The recommendations include implementing public-private partnerships to tackle the dangerous ideology underlying the movement, and engendering greater trust between the government and Muslim communities.
November 6, 2009 | Press Release
WORDE welcomes its new Program Director, Waleed Ziad who will be heading our project “Understanding Socio-Political Groups in Pakistan” starting in Spring 2010. Waleed’s article, “Defeating the Taliban in Pakistan” was just published in The Hill opinion section.
Defeating the Taliban in Pakistan
By Mehreen Farooq and Waleed Ziad – 11/02/09 07:25 PM ET
It’s the strategy, stupid. Once again, we’re hoping that Pakistan’s latest offensive in the tribal belt will solve the Taliban problem. Our military-centric strategy, which has cost us eight years and $10 billion tax dollars, is incomplete. What’s missing is the complementary soft-power component necessary to secure the pivotal conflict zone in the war on terror.
January 13, 2010 | Press Release
Nine agencies from the United States Intelligence Community (IC) will be participating in the first IC Virtual Career Fair on Tuesday, March 16 from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. ET. This free, online event will allow registered job seekers to learn about available intelligence jobs, interact with recruiters online, and apply to open positions from the comfort of their own homes.
January 25, 2010 | Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC — WORDE President Hedieh Mirahmadi and specialist Zeyno Baran participate in a roundtable discussion with Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-NC-9), who heads the bipartisan Anti-Terrorism Caucus, about the Ft Hood shootings and other issues involving homegrown radicalism. For several years, WORDE has worked with Congresswoman Myrick to shape policies to counter terrorism and jihadist ideology.
May 07, 2010 | Press Release
“The Global Village of Terrorism” is a new article from WORDE President Hedieh Mirahmadi, featured in the Huffington Post’s 05/07/10 edition.
The author argues that the international community – in particularly the US Government – needs to employ every possible tool to ensure their counterinsurgency operations in Pakistan are successful in order to prevent another terror attack on our soil. To be most effective, Mirahmadi advocates forming a strategic alliance with the traditional Muslim community in Pakistan, locally known as the ASJ (an acronym for Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā’ah).
April 07, 2010 | Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC — Pakistan is home to 160 million Muslims, the vast majority of whom practice moderate and traditional Islam, and reject the radicalism of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Yet most of us know little about their struggle against the radicals.
Hudson Institute’s Center for Eurasian Policy, in partnership with the World Organization for Resource Development and Education (WORDE), invites you to an off-the-record lunch meeting on April 20th with a high-level Pakistani delegation -including a former federal Minister- to hear about their efforts in countering the Taliban in their country.
February 24, 2010 | Press Release
“The most important ideological struggle in the world today is within Islam, between Islamists, extremist activists who hijack Islam and seek political power to reshape societies, and moderate and secular Muslims who embrace the compatibility of Islam and democracy as well as the individual freedoms we all cherish in the West.” – Zeyno Baran, Hudson Senior Fellow and Editor of The Other Muslims
July 23, 2009 | Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC — On Monday, Hedieh Mirahmadi, President of World Organization for Resource Development and Education [WORDE], participated in an historic summit at the US Capitol. The summit participants met with representatives of US Agencies, Members of Congress and congressional staff during a historic Moderate Muslim Summit organized by US Representative Sue Myrick (NC-09). The summit was the first of its kind because it assembled the largest group of diverse Muslims at the US Capitol to discuss issues and policy impacting Muslim communities and societies.