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11th Meeting of the European Policy Planners' Network (PPN)

A focus on lone actors

19 - 20 April 2012
The Hague

The 11th meeting of the European Policy Planners' Network on Countering Radicalisation and Polarisation (PPN) took place in The Hague.

Hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice, the meeting focused on the importance of recognising and combating the threat posed by lone actor extremists, and the training of front-line workers to deal with this threat. Thirty-five government officials attended, representing  PPN member countries as well as the United States and Finland.

HE Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Foreign Minister, addresses an invited audience at an ISD policy breakfast, October 2011
CEDAR Chair Ahmed Larouz, addressing the Social Innovation and Social Action Conference, Lambeth Palace, November 2011
Peter Kellner, President of YouGov and Dr David Muir, Faith in Britain, at the launch conference of the Phoenix Initiative, October 2010
Vanessa Redgrave, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2012, speaking at the University of Oxford, February 2012.
Historian Saul Friedlander, Inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography at the University of Oxford, May 2012
Journalist and blogger Sunny Hundal, delivering a presentation at ISD's Social Media and Intolerance workshop, April 2012
Jonathan Powell, former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, addresses the inaugural Turkey Workshop, London, September 2011
Lord Weidenfeld and Sir Ronald Grierson, co-founders of the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme, April 2010
Leading activists from pro-democracy movements in the Middle East, speaking at a Weidenfeld Debate, February 2012