RISE Action Guide Launch Symposium
The Rehabilitation and (Re)integration through Individual, Social and Structural Engagement (RISE) Action Guide provides local stakeholders, policymakers, program funders and implementors with a peacebuilding framework to support the rehabilitation of people disengaging from extremist violence as well as their reintegration into, and reconciliation with, local communities. RISE is a prosocial, community-centered approach to rehabilitation and reintegration that draws on principles from both peacebuilding and public health. The RISE Action Guide’s overarching goal is to encourage behavioral changes that facilitate disengagement from, and the rejection of, violence by lowering barriers and opening spaces for sustained, positive, inclusive engagement between people disengaging from extremist violence and local community members and institutions.
Join MexLucky for the launch of the RISE Action Guide with an all-day, in-person symposium. The event will feature a combination of panels, interactive breakout sessions and TED-style talks to introduce the RISE content, discuss policy frameworks that are needed for rehabilitation and reintegration, and explore programming approaches for the individual, social and structural levels that provide a holistic response to rehabilitation and reintegration.
Take part in the conversation on social media using the hashtag #RISEGuideMexLucky.
Please note: This will be a hybrid event in which the plenary sessions (welcome, opening TED-style talks, practitioner conversation, local reflections) will be in-person and webcast live, and the interactive sessions will be in-person only. All registered in-person participants are welcome to attend a reception immediately following the event.
Agenda
8:30am – 9am EST | Registration
9am – 10:15am EST | Opening Plenary
Welcome
- David Yang, Ph.D.
Vice President, Gandhi-King Global Academy, U.S. Institute of Peace
Fireside Chat
- Ian Moss
Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Bureau of Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State - Corinne Graff, Ph.D., moderator
Senior Advisor, Conflict Prevention and Fragility, U.S. Institute of Peace
TED-style Talks
- Chris Bosley
RISE co-author; Acting Director, Program on Violence and Extremism, U.S. Institute of Peace - Mike Niconchuk
RISE co-author; Program Lead, Wend Collective - Lisa Schirch, Ph.D.
RISE co-author; Richard G. Starmann Sr. Endowed Chair and Professor of the Practice of Peacebuilding, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
10:15am – 10:30am EST | Break
10:30am – 12pm EST | Interactive Session A (in-person only)
Room 1: Behavioral Health & Wellbeing
- Brandon Kohrt, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Global Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Global Mental Health Equity, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences - Chynere Best, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, GW Center for Global Mental Health Equity - Ruta Rangel
EQUIP Program Coordinator, GW Center for Global Mental Health Equity
Room 2: Stigma Reduction
- John McCoy, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Organization for the Prevention of Violence - Kris Inman, Ph.D., facilitator
Senior Program Officer, Program on Violence and Extremism, U.S. Institute of Peace
Room 3: Foster Justice and Reconciliation
- Mara Revkin, J.D.; Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Duke Law School - Lamia Lahrech, Ph.D., facilitator
Executive Director, GRACE Cares
12pm – 1pm EST | Lunch (in-person only)
1pm – 2pm EST | Plenary: Practitioner Conversation
- Sabrine Laribi
Project Officer, Tunisia, U.S. Institute of Peace - Noah Tucker
Senior Research Consultant, Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs - Fauziya Abdi
President, Women in International Security (Horn of Africa) - Michael Phelan, moderator
Managing Director, Center for Thematic Excellence, U.S. Institute of Peace
2pm – 2:15 pm EST | Break
2:15pm – 3:45pm EST | Interactive Session B (in-person only)
Room 1: Trauma Recovery
- Heidi Ellis, Ph.D.
Director, Trauma and Community Resilience Center, Boston’s Children’s Hospital - Mike Niconchuk, facilitator
Program Lead, Wend Collective
Room 2: Facilitate Social Belonging
- Salma Mousa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Political Science, UCLA - Jean Baptise “JB” Talla, facilitator
Senior Technical Advisor, Justice and Peacebuilding, Catholic Relief Services
Room 3: Build Community Resilience
- Georgia Holmer
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Royal United Services Institute and former head, Action against Terrorism Unit, OSCE - Charlie Christian, facilitator
Peace and Conflict Senior Advisor, Technical Support Unit, Mercy Corps
3:45pm – 4pm EST | Break
4pm – 5:15pm EST | Plenary: Local Reflections and Closing
- Fatima Akilu, Ph.D.
Executive Director, NEEM Foundation - Cholpon Orozobekova
Director, Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations - Margaretha Hanita, Ph.D.
Board Member, EMPATIKU Foundation - Sarhang Harmasaeed
Director, Middle East Programs, U.S. Institute of Peace - Binalakshmi Nepram, moderator
Senior Advisor on Indigenous Issues, Religion and Inclusive Societies, U.S. Institute of Peace - To be confirmed, closing remarks
