SPEAKERS

Kathy Gannon

Kathy Gannon

Senior Correspondent
Associated Press

Yevhen Fedchenko

Yevhen Fedchenko

Co-Founder and Chief Editor
StopFake.org

Vidhya Ramalingam

Vidhya Ramalingam

Founder Moonshot CVE

Eric Rosand

Eric Rosand

Director, Prevention Project and Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution

Barkha Dutt

Barkha Dutt

Journalist and Author

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav

National General Secretary
Bharatiya Janata Party

Agne Kaarlep

Agne Kaarlep

Policy Officer — Counter Terrorism and Radicalisation, European Commission

Ambassador Olivier Caron

Ambassador Olivier Caron

Special Envoy for Counter-Terrorism,
Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs,
Government of France

Beth Goldberg

Beth Goldberg

Research Program Manager, Jigsaw

Raffaello Pantucci

Raffaello Pantucci

Senior Associate Fellow,
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Senior Visiting Fellow,
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)

Erin Saltman

Erin Saltman

Head, Counterterrorism and Dangerous
Organisations Policy — EMEA,
Facebook

Vishal Bharadwaj

Vishal Bharadwaj

Filmmaker

Rita Singh

Rita Singh

Associate Research Professor — Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University

Colin P. Clarke

Colin P. Clarke

Senior Research Fellow, The Soufan Center and Assistant Professor,
Carnegie Mellon University

Sumaiya Shaikh

Sumaiya Shaikh

Neuroscientist and Researcher in Violent Aggression,
Linköping University Hospital, Sweden

Milo Comerford

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
Maya Mirchandani
Senior Fellow, ORF; Chair — Tackling Insurgent Ideologies
Archit Lohani
Archit Lohani
Research Assistant, ORF
Khalid Shah
Khalid Shah
Associate Fellow, ORF
Laetitia Bruce Warjri
Laetitia Bruce Warjri
Associate Fellow and Programme Manager, ORF
Prithvi Iyer
Prithvi Iyer
Research Assistant, ORF
Priyal Pandey
Priyal Pandey
Junior Fellow, ORF
Rutvi Zamre
Rutvi Zamre
Research Intern, ORF
Siddhant Chatterjee
Siddhant Chatterjee
Research Intern, ORF