Countering Violent Extremism: Community Strategies – A Multi-Regional Project

On Monday, April 23 Meridian welcomed a group of 10 NGO representatives, government officials, and community leaders from all over the world for the International Visitor Leadership Program, "Countering Violent Extremism: Community Strategies." Countering violent extremism, or CVE, remains among the United States' most pressing foreign policy goals, and this program sought to aid is participants in building their capacities to empower at-risk youth and strengthen their respective communities. 

Throughout their national program, the participants explored this theme through an introduction to U.S. programs that counter violent extremism at the federal, state, and local levels; exploration of underlying conditions that fuel extremism, political grievances, communal conflicts; and discussions on how different sectors of American society work together to resist violent extremism including government, academia, and civil society. In order to accomplish these objectives, the participants first convened in Washington, DC before travelling to New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Detroit, MI; and Minneapolis, MM. 

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