Studies and practices focused on active radical movements and individual interventions in the long years of the Global War on Terror have led the American national security community and various social movements originating from the Islamic world to spend decades working to understand the political sociology of radicalization and approach the conditions of social breakdown in productive and integrative ways.
Join the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD) for an exploration of the American national security community’s and the Hizmet Movement’s approaches to social breakdown and ideological and religious radicalization for the 21st Century and their implications for various sorts of domestic political radicalization and political violence in the United States.
The ICRD will also be livestreaming the event on their YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/live/8Z7UjEegH8k.
Panelists
Adam Garfinkle is the Founding Editor of The American Interest and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
A seasoned scholar and practitioner in the American national security community, Garfinkle served as principal speechwriter to Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice (2003–2005). He is the author of several books, including Jewcentricity: How the Jews Get Praised, Blamed, and Used to Explain Nearly Everything (Wiley, 2009) and Telltale Hearts: The Origin and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement (St. Martin’s, 1995), the latter recognized as a “Notable Book of the Year” by the New York Times Book Review.
Ibrahim Anli is the Executive Director of the Rumi Forum and a civic entrepreneur with extensive experience in religious reconciliation, social entrepreneurship, and interfaith dialogue. A longtime practitioner in the international Hizmet Movement, he has worked in the Middle East and the United States to promote peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
He previously served as diplomacy coordinator at the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) in Ankara and later as Secretary General of the Abant Platform, JWF’s Istanbul-based intellectual forum. Before joining Rumi Forum in 2019, he was a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and taught International Relations and Diplomacy at Tishk International University in Erbil, Kurdistan.
Moderator
Luke Nathan Phillips is a writer, tour guide, and MC based in Northern Virginia. He has extensive experience in policy, civic engagement, and public discourse and has worked with nonprofits, civic organizations, magazines, and research institutions in bipartisan, reformist, and conservative spaces since 2017. Luke has organized, hosted, and facilitated numerous panels, debates, and workshops across the U.S., engaging policy experts, activists, and young professionals. He also provides customized tours in Washington, D.C., tailored for student and civic groups.
His writings have appeared in American Affairs, The National Interest, The Dispatch, The American Conservative, and RealClearPolicy, among others. A Braver Angels volunteer since 2017, he served as Publius Fellow for Public Discourse (2021–2024) and was David Brooks’ scheduler (2019–2021).