International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation & Political Violence

The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation & Political Violence (ICSR) states on its website that it "has emerged to bring together academic insight, political foresight and business acumen in order to counter radicalisation." I also describes its mission is to "challenge and counter the growth of radicalisation by bringing together the world's best thinkers from academia, politics and business." The group is based in London.

Introduction
The ICSR is a partnership between:


 * King's College London (United Kingdom)
 * University of Pennsylvania (United States)
 * Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel)
 * Regional Center on Conflict Prevention (Jordan)

Funding
On its website the group does not state where its funding comes from. As of early December 2007 the group's website states that "ICSR is currently in the process of being registered as a charity. In the meantime, you can make charitable donations through our partner institutions."

The ISCR states that for 2008 it will carry out research on three priority areas: "strategies through which to counter radicalisation and recruitment on the Internet."; "compare and evaluate programmes aimed at ‘reforming' radical prison inmates"; and "construct the most up to date ‘radicalisation cycle' based on everything known about the radicalisation process."

Personnel
Key personnel for the organisation are:

Leadership

 * John Bew – director
 * Lawrence Freedman, King’s College London
 * Boaz Ganor, Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, Israel
 * Yasar Qatarneh, Regional Center on Conflict Prevention
 * Harvey Rubin, University of Pennsylvania

Board of Trustees

 * Kim Campbell
 * Henry Sweetbaum

Staff

 * Debbie Berger Fox; CFO and Project Manager
 * Marilyn Carsley;Project Assistant
 * Dina Esfandiary; Project Assistant
 * Peter R. Neumann; Director
 * Jacob Stoil; Operations Manager
 * Stephen Tankel; Senior Project Coordinator.

1st Conference
Experts who particpated at the First International Conference on Radicalisation and Political Violence included:


 * Peter Ackerman, Musa Abubaker Admani, Sadig Al-Mahdi, Charles Alao, Mohammed Mohammed Ali, Abdullah Anas, Howard Barrell, Dan Benjamin, Mats Berdal, Peter Bergen, Kjell Magne Bondevik, Roddy Bret, Francisco Santos Calderon, Kim Campbell, Yigal Carmon, Mustafa Cerić, Mohamed Chebaro, Erica Chenoweth, Jonathan Cohen, Denis Corboy, Audrey Kurth Cronin, Terry Davis, David de Ugarte, Richard Dearlove, Michael P. Downing, Jack DuVall, Sue Eckert, Roy Eidelson, Nick Fielding, Garret FitzGerald, Lawrence Freedman, Boaz Ganor, Frank Gardner, Jeroen Gunning, Chuck Hagel, Kemal el Helbawy, Ortwin Hennig, Michael Hurley, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Adam Ingram, Rudy Jaafar, Huda Jawad, Ely Karmon, George Kassimeris, James Kidner, Alan Krueger, Robert Lambert, Anatol Lieven, Shiraz Maher, Gaspar Martinez, Amado Mendoza, Hardy Merriman, Omar B. Nahar, Loretta Napoleoni, Peter Neumann, Funmi Olonisakin, David Omand, Cem Özdemir, Michael Pakenham, Andres Pastrana, Yasar Qatarneh, Magnus Ranstorp, Mary Robinson, Berel Rodal, Eric Rosenbach, Olivier Roy, Harvey Rubin, Olli Ruohomäki, John Sacher, Domitilla Sagramoso, Yezid Sayigh, Steve Simon, Joshua Sinai, Jacqui Smith, Anne Speckhard, Maria J. Stephan, Sigmund Sternberg, Rebecca Stoil, Jürgen Storbeck, Henry Sweetbaum, Stephen Tankel, Bassam Tibi, Katharina von Knop, Gabriel Weimann, Achim Wennmann, William Zartman

2008 Conference
The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR) will be launched with a major international conference in London in January 2008. Participants will include:


 * Satish Nambiar
 * Anne Speckhard
 * Frank Gardner
 * Terry Davis
 * Kim Campbell
 * Francisco Santos Calderon
 * Olivier Roy
 * Dan Benjamin
 * Sadig Al-Mahdi
 * David Omand
 * Saad Eddin Ibrahim
 * William Zartman
 * Cem Ozdemir
 * Andres Pastrana

Contact details

 * ICSR
 * King's College London
 * 138-142 Strand
 * London WC2R 1HH
 * United Kingdom
 * Phone: +44 (0) 207 848 2098
 * Fax: +44 (0) 207 848 2748
 * email: mail AT icsr.info
 * website: icsr.info