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 USIP 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.
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
Lisa Grande,welcoming remarks
President and CEO, U.S. Institute of Peace
Opening 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
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 - 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
Practitioner Conversation
- Sabrine Laribi
Project Specialist, U.S. Institute of Peace - Noah Tucker
Senior Research Consultant, Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs - Fauziya Abdi
Chair, Sisters Without Borders - Mona Yacoubian, moderator
Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Center, U.S. Institute of Peace
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
Local Reflections
- Fatima Akilu, Ph.D.
Executive Director, NEEM Foundation - Cholpon Orozobekova
Director, Bulan Institute for Peace Innovations - Mira Kusumarini
Founder and CEO, EMPATIKU Foundation - Sarhang Harmasaeed
Director, Middle East Programs, U.S. Institute of Peace - Joseph Sany, Ph.D., moderator
Vice President, Africa Center, U.S. Institute of Peace - Michael Phelan, closing remarks
Managing Director, Center for Thematic Excellence, U.S. Institute of Peace (TBC)