SPEAKERS
Kathy Gannon
Senior Correspondent
Associated Press
Vidhya Ramalingam
Founder Moonshot CVE
Eric Rosand
Director, Prevention Project and Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution
Barkha Dutt
Journalist and Author
Ram Madhav
National General Secretary
Bharatiya Janata Party
Agne Kaarlep
Policy Officer — Counter Terrorism and Radicalisation, European Commission
Ambassador Olivier Caron
Special Envoy for Counter-Terrorism,
Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs,
Government of France
Beth Goldberg
Research Program Manager, Jigsaw
Raffaello Pantucci
Senior Associate Fellow,
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Senior Visiting Fellow,
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
Erin Saltman
Head, Counterterrorism and Dangerous
Organisations Policy — EMEA,
Facebook
Vishal Bharadwaj
Filmmaker
Rita Singh
Associate Research Professor — Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University
Colin P. Clarke
Senior Research Fellow, The Soufan Center and Assistant Professor,
Carnegie Mellon University
Sumaiya Shaikh
Neuroscientist and Researcher in Violent Aggression,
Linköping University Hospital, Sweden
Milo Comerford
Senior Policy Manager, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Tackling Insurgent Ideologies aims to host government officials, academics, civil society organisations, the media and the private sector — in particular tech and social media companies — to discuss policy solutions to prevent/counter violent extremism.
The previous iteration focused on The Christchurch Call to Action. Representatives from over 20 countries spoke at the conference to engage on the inter-linkages between ideological radicalisation, tech, terror, online hate and misinformation.
Given the unusual times we are living through, this year’s conversations will discuss the spread of extremist violence, terrorism and xenophobia against the backdrop of a global pandemic. In trying to fight the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2 or Covid-19, has an infodemic — characterised by fake news and religious or racial polarisation — been unleashed globally, in a climate already vitiated by radical, ideological violence?
Through Tackling Insurgent Ideologies, we aim to expand the CVE conversation to tackle hate speech and misinformation at the very root. By engaging with government, academia, civil society, the media and social media/tech companies we aim to discuss challenges of, and evolve prescriptive suggestions to tackle this dangerous infodemic, and help prevent and counter violent extremism.
The Team
Maya Mirchandani
Senior Fellow, ORF; Chair — Tackling Insurgent Ideologies
Archit Lohani
Research Assistant, ORF
Khalid Shah
Associate Fellow, ORF
Laetitia Bruce Warjri
Associate Fellow and Programme Manager, ORF
Prithvi Iyer
Research Assistant, ORF
Priyal Pandey
Junior Fellow, ORF
Rutvi Zamre
Research Intern, ORF
