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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.

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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? Objective 1: Develop a shared language; describe ideologically motivated violence and radicalization. Objective 2: Review traditional approaches and challenges at the local and national levels. Objective 3: Understand the history and characteristics of radicalization.
	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

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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 Objective 1: Explore root causes driving violence and how these might be different from the traditional perception of causes. Objective 2: Discuss the value or implications of rethinking the sources of violent extremism.
	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) Objective 1: Explore and examine crosssector and interdisciplinary emerging or novel policy and practice frameworks and issues in countering ideologically motivated violence. Objective 2: Discuss possible barriers and facilitators to applying nontraditional approaches to countering ideologically motivated violence in the United States.

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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
	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) Objective 1: Explore and examine cross-sector and interdisciplinary emerging or novel policy and practice frameworks and issues in countering ideologically motivated violence. Objective 2: Discuss possible barriers and facilitators to applying nontraditional approaches to countering ideologically motivated violence in the United States.
4:00 pm	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

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	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 Objective 1: Review relevant conceptual models in health, health care, and behavioral health. Objective 2: Examine applicability of conceptual models in health to countering ideologically motivated violence. Objective 3: Discuss possible areas of confusion and adverse outcomes from health 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 Objective 1: Discuss important action items and next steps to leveraging health concepts and approaches to countering ideologically motivated violence, gaps in necessary knowledge, and the challenges or barriers involved.

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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
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
4:00 pm	Matthew Wynia (workshop chair), director, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado
4:30 pm	ADJOURN DAY 2

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Countering Violent Extremism Through Public Health Practice: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24638.

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