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Saturday, December 14, 2024

WEBINAR: Understanding and Responding to Hate Crimes in University Protests

Homeland Security Today, in partnership with The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism and the U.S. Department of Justice is pleased to bring to you its latest innovative training – Understanding and Responding to Hate Crimes in the Context of University Protests. Dr. Anne Speckhard, Director of the ICSVE, will be sharing knowledge and experience regarding hate crimes in the context of university protests, defining what constitutes a hate crime, insights into why offenders commit them as well as address specifically how university administrators, policy makers, parents and law enforcement can work to prevent student protest hate crimes, and help our communities to stay safe.

Certificates of attendance will be issued for those who take part in the pre and post-quizzes required by the Department of Justice.

When: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 (11:00 AM – 12:30 PM) (EST)

Click here to register.

About Dr. Speckhard

Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., is Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE). She serves as Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine and is an Affiliate in the Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University. She has interviewed over 800 terrorists, violent extremists, their family members and supporters around the world, including in Western Europe, the Balkans, Central Asia, the Former Soviet Union and the Middle East. Over the past five years, she has conducted in-depth psychological interviews with 273 ISIS defectors, returnees and prisoners, as well as 16 al Shabaab cadres (as well as family members and ideologues,) studying their trajectories into and out of terrorism, and their experiences inside ISIS and al Shabaab.

About ICSVE

The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) is an action-based, interdisciplinary research center focused on psychosocial, cultural, political, economic, ideological, and technological topics impacting global peace and security.

At ICSVE, a growing team of experts from diverse academic and professional backgrounds provides research, training, and strategic advice to government leaders, intelligence, defense, international organizations, and civilian communities worldwide, to prevent and deter the threat of violent extremism in core areas such as capacity building and programmatic support, countering extremist narratives, developing community resilience, managing prevention and intervention activities, understanding pathways into and out of terrorism, and countering violent extremism training.

Founded in July 2015, ICSVE evolved from the work of Dr. Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., who has been addressing these issues for over two decades. ICSVE welcomes partners and donors interested in combating violent extremism.

ICSVE is independent and non-partisan. It does not engage in classified research for governments or international organizations. All of its work is published in open-source venues.

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