Another teen.
Another example of the failure in global policy to design (we know what to do) a system to reduce the appeal of violent ideology.
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The latest blow in our youth radicalization catastrophe: Manfredi Pozzoli reports on a 13-year-old in Italy who stabbed his teacher, inspired by "a close affinity to online, 'post-ideological' extremist subcultures such as NLM and the TCC." @GNET_researchgnet-research.org/2026/05/07…
The GEC was not perfect. And no version before it was. However, what decision maker thought for one second we didn't need something to deal with messaging from adversaries?
2005 Rapid Response Unit to deal with Al Qaeda daily airdrops
Counterterrorism Communication Center (CTCC), a rapid response unit that "produces strategic communications plans, develops effective narratives and themes to undermine and counter terrorist messaging, and produces specific messages for State.
Within CTCC lived a Digital Outreach Team (focus on Arabic, Farsi, Urdu messaging...
Then it became the Global Strategic Engagement Center....
Then
2011 Obama refreshed it and created a new version the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC) to coordinate social media efforts to counter extremism -- like a "war room" for a political campaign. THE BUDGET FOR THIS WAS 5-6 million. Seriously.
2016 CSCC turned into the Global Engagement Center (GEC)
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Trump’s State Department closed its Global Engagement Center, which flagged foreign propaganda and provided advance U.S. messaging across the world. And now, we are scrambling to catch up.
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“We want to go back to moderate #Islam which will be open to the world. 70% of Saudi is younger than thirty today. We don’t want to spend the next 30 years dealing with extremism.”
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.@FareedZakaria is talking about the ideology of extremism re Hamas-Israel war and if there are lessons that Israel should have learned about the power of the ideology.
For those of us who have been pressing for years nations globally need to apply scale, focus and money to reducing the appeal of extremist ideology and WHY ...this feels like deja vu.
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I write about this in #HowWeWin book and why/how traditional clothing has been snuffed out. Forced monolithic "Islam" shows up in lifestyle, language and food. Unique culture has been erased in so many communities.
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I could not agree more — we have been talking about this since 9/11. Why have we not put the money and lessons learned into executing a fit for purpose plan? We also need to SCALE the many program that work. #CVE#HowWeWin book
Everyone you talk to in counterterrorism, both inside and outside government, is profoundly concerned about youth radicalization. As @SeamusHughes points out in @lawfare, “The simple fact is that law enforcement agencies don’t have a policy answer for it.” lawfaremedia.org/article/the…
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And this has happened all over the world. Authentic dress, food, language changed due to external influence. A steady focus on making it so. Policy makers have not accounted for this and as a result extremism, change in identity and mind set has made this world what it is. I write about this in #HowWeWin focusing on KSA’s multi decade effort. Impact in Afghanistan yes…and all over Asia and Africa and more. From Zanzibar to KL.
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