In a new blog, Charity & Security Network advisory board member Naz Modirzadeh, founding director of the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, takes aim at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon’s new Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism. In it, she identifies three “fatal flaws,” including its failure to define “violent extremism,” its lack of convincing evidence of the causes or “drivers” of violent extremism, and its prescription for a “host of programmatic, political, and institutional actions with significant implications.”
Read the blog here.