Bloomberg News: Steering Youth Away From Extremism Has $100,000 Prize at Summit
Yousef Bartho Assidiq was on the path toward terrorism, part of a group whose members discussed beheadings and mass attacks. Now he tries to stop other youths from getting radicalized in his native Norway. Assidiq’s story of conversion to Islam and recruitment into a militant group is not uncommon. His rehabilitation is the kind of accomplishment that participants at the Global Youth Summit Against Violent Extremism next week seek to replicate. The Sept. 28 gathering at the United Nations comes a day before President Barack Obama hosts an event on countering extremism in New York.
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.