Agenda - Eradicate Hate Global Summit

Eradicate Hate Global Summit

2026 Agenda

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Plenary programming starts on the main stage in the ballroom at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 15.

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Tuesday, September 15

Working Group Convenings #1
8:00 am - 10:00 am
The working groups are Eradicate Hate’s engine of innovation, transforming ideas generated here at the Global Summit into concrete deliverables that are built and tested through year-round collaboration. Please join us at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center for any of the open sessions below. Those marked ‘closed door’ will not be open to the general public and are invite only.To learn more about the many initiatives our working groups advance, please visit the Eradicate Hate Working Groups webpage.
Convening Schedule

8:00am – 10:00am ET
- Protecting the Protectors (open session; 304-305)
- Training and Career Development for Mental Health Practitioners in Targeted Violence Prevention (closed door; 315-316)
- Countering the Finance of Violent Extremism (closed door; off site)
- Survivors in Action (closed door; 403-404; no A/V)
- K-12 Education (open session; 301-302)
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Working Group Convenings #2
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The working groups are Eradicate Hate’s engine of innovation, transforming ideas generated here at the Global Summit into concrete deliverables that are built and tested through year-round collaboration. Please join us at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center for any of the open sessions below. Those marked ‘closed door’ will not be open to the general public and are invite only.To learn more about the many initiatives our working groups advance, please visit the Eradicate Hate Working Groups webpage.
Convening Schedule

10:00am – 12:00pm ET
- Youth Red Flags (open session; 301-302)
- Judicial Process (open session; 304-305)
- Higher Education (open session; 303)
- City Managers (317-318; closed door; 317-318)
- State Solutions (closed door; 315-316)
- Threat Modeling Workshop (open session; 304-305) - In this applied threat modeling workshop, attendees bring a real-world problem, project, or security concern and work through a structured process to identify key assets, relevant threat actors, and plausible pathways of harm. By the end of the hour, participants will have prioritized risks according to likelihood and impact and will leave with a clear, practical sense of where to focus mitigation efforts first.
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Welcome Remarks
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Ballroom
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Survivors in Action
12:10 pm - 12:50 pm | Ballroom
Survivors of hate-fueled violence play a critical role in both prevention and response. This panel, composed of survivors of multiple forms hate-fueled violence, will discuss both the impact of loss and the courageous steps they have taken to convert an act of hate into a force for good, and ensure that survivor voices continue to inform prevention and response efforts across all sectors.
- Moderator
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Working Group Updates
12:50 pm - 1:05 pm | Ballroom
- ARCHER
- Video Games I
- Survivors in Action
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Keynote featuring Dr. Alfred Garfinkle
1:05 pm - 1:30 pm | Ballroom
Dr. Alfred Garwood is a Holocaust survivor, physician, psychiatrist, and internationally respected expert on trauma whose life reflects extraordinary resilience and purpose. Born in the Przemyśl Ghetto and imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen as a child, he has dedicated his career to advancing the understanding of psychological trauma and ensuring the lessons of the Holocaust continue to educate and inspire future generations.
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The Converging Threat: Understanding Intersecting Ideologies of Hate-Fueled Violence
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Ballroom
Perpetrators of hate-fueled violence increasingly draw from overlapping and blended ideologies—combining racial, ethnic, and religious animus with misogyny and anti-LGBTQ hostility into a single, often unpredictable threat profile. This session brings together experts to examine how these hateful motivations intersect and reinforce one another, both in the U.S. and globally, and what this convergence means for prevention, threat assessment, and intervention efforts.
- Moderator
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Programmatic Updates
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Ballroom
- K-12 Education
- UP End Hate
- Reach Out Resource Hub
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Break
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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A World of Lessons: International Strategies to Counter Hate
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm | Ballroom
Drawing on insights from experts around the world, this panel explores emerging trends in hate-fueled violence, common manifestations of hate across cultures, and lessons from global prevention and response efforts. Panelists will also share innovative ideas for strengthening collaboration and knowledge-sharing among practitioners, policymakers, and communities to more effectively combat hate-fueled violence worldwide
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Legal Frontiers: Law, Liability, and Online Harm
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Ballroom
Over the past year, significant legal developments in both litigation and regulation have impacted the legal landscape governing the online space. In the United States, a number of cases brought by State Attorneys General have advanced novel legal theories against social media companies, while outside of the United States, significant regulatory activity is impacting online spaces. This panel of global legal and regulatory experts will provide a summary of the key legal developments in terms that are instructive for legal experts and laypeople alike.
- Moderator
Promise and Peril: AI’s Role in Enabling—and Preventing—Violence
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Ballroom
This panel will address the complex landscape where artificial intelligence is both being used to plan and prevent targeted violence. Participants will learn how extremist groups exploit AI technologies—such as chatbots and generative tools—to spread hate and facilitate violence. The session also highlights innovative prevention strategies, including the latest research on AI safety, policy interventions, and practical approaches for countering these threats.
- Moderaor
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Networking Reception
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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Speaker Dinner (Invitation Only)
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Wednesday, September 16

Welcoming Remarks and Bridge Builder Award
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Ballroom
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The Emerging Response to the Bondi Beach Massacre
9:20 am - 9:50 am | Ballroom
Following the horrific attack at Bondi Beach in Australia, Australia formed a Royal Commission to investigate the factors that led to the tragedy and make recommendations for the national response. This panel of individuals who provided testimony before the Commission will address Australia’s contemporary extremism and targeted violence landscape, the crisis response, community recovery, and the insights learned through the process. The panel will also discuss ongoing and future efforts to deliver structural reform and social cohesion, and the unique role that Eradicate Hate could play in that process.
- Moderator
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Working Group Updates
9:50 am - 10:05 am | Ballroom
- Common Metrics for Practice and Policy
- Video Games II
- Countering the Financing of Violent Extremism
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Breaking the Silence: Exploring Gender to Engage Every Bystander in Prevention
10:05 am - 10:55 am | Ballroom
Family members, friends, and peers are often the first to notice warning signs of potential violence, but noticing and acting are not the same thing. Understanding who speaks up, who stays silent, and why is a central question for prevention. While most perpetrators of hate-fueled violence are male, evidence remains limited on the ways gender shapes how the people closest to them take action. Communities must urgently lower barriers to reporting, equip boys and men to intervene as bystanders, and embrace shared responsibility for preventing harm before it escalates. This session explores emerging patterns from frontline work with bystanders, draws lessons from adjacent fields like gender-based violence, and asks what it takes to make every bystander an active force for prevention.
- Moderator
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Break
10:55 am - 11:20 am
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Higher Education Meet and Greet
10:55 am - 11:55 am | Room 405
Breakout Sessions
⧉ The Tree of Life: Creating Spaces of Memory
11:20 am - 12:35 pm | Rooms 317 / 318
Join Maggie Feinstein of the 10/27 Healing Partnership and Alice Greenwald, member of The Tree of Life’s Academic Advisory Council, and former President & CEO of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, for a conversation on honoring those taken from us and creating spaces of memory.
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⧉ From Signals to Safeguards: Distinguishing Online Threats to Prevent Hate-Fueled Violence
11:20 am - 12:35 pm | Rooms 315 / 316
This workshop builds advanced skills for distinguishing online “lawful but awful” expression from credible threats of offline harm. Participants will examine cross-sector threat assessment approaches to better prioritize, contextualize, and respond to online signals linked to hate-fueled and political violence.
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⧉ Faith as Frontline Prevention: Lessons in Prevention from the Frontline of Theologically Conservative and Moderate Faith Traditions
11:20 am - 12:35 pm | Rooms 304 / 305
Participants will learn how theologically conservative to moderate faith communities—often underrepresented in prevention spaces—serve as frontline actors against hate-fueled violence by building protective factors such as belonging, agency, and conflict fluency. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to engage these communities in both long-term prevention and crisis response, strengthening cross-sector resilience and expanding the field’s reach into critical but often overlooked populations.
- Moderator
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⧉ Right-Sizing Prevention: Cities and Counties as the Effective Governance Level for Preventing Hate, Extremism, and Targeted Violence in North America
11:20 am - 12:35 pm | Ballroom
As federal and state governments retreat from - or fail to adequately invest in - targeted violence primary prevention, the burden of bridging the gap is shifting to cities and counties. This panel convenes municipalities across the U.S. and Canada to examine how they should be empowered with frameworks, funding, and partners to fill the growing need.
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⧉ Crafting a Primary Prevention Approach to Hate Motivated Violence
11:20 am - 12:35 pm | Rooms 301 / 302
How can communities prevent hate-fueled harm before it takes root? This interactive workshop brings together academic, practitioner, and youth-centered approaches to explore evidence-based strategies for primary prevention of hate-motivated violence. Drawing on findings from the Strong Communities project and the Hearing Unheard Moments initiative, attendees will examine how sectors, including education, public safety, health, local government, non-profits, and youth-serving organizations, can strengthen resilience, foster belonging, and address grievances before they become harmful.Through panel discussions, practical examples, dialogue-based activities, and an interactive visioning exercise, attendees will explore community values, identify barriers to prevention, and develop concrete tools and shared language to create safer, more connected communities where all people, especially young people, feel heard, respected, and included.
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Lunch
12:35 pm - 1:25 pm
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Working Group Updates
12:45 pm - 1:00 pm | Ballroom
- Protecting the Protectors
- Judicial Process
- Nihilistic Violent Extremism
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Research Spotlight
1:00 pm - 1:25 pm | Ballroom
From Jake Paul to Holocaust Denial: Rethinking the “Hate Pipeline” in the Age of Algorithms This session presents original research showing how algorithms can move a user from mainstream content to Holocaust denial in under 90 minutes, without seeking extremism. Drawing on experimental findings and the literature, we challenge the “pipeline” model and identify a key early-intervention point.
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From Headlines to Harm Reduction: Covering a Rising Threat without Normalizing It
1:25 pm - 2:15 pm | Ballroom
This panel looks at how media coverage after an attack shapes public response and attitudes. It will discuss how to honor victims without encouraging copycat behavior, and how reporting can better highlight warning signs and missed chances to intervene. Panelists will share practical ways to strike this balance and support prevention.
- Moderator
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Keynote featuring Shari Redstone and Van Jones
2:15 pm - 2:40 pm | Ballroom
Shari Redstone and Van Jones are influential leaders whose work has shaped media, business, public policy, and social justice. As Chair of Paramount Global and founder of the Shari Redstone Foundation, and as an Emmy Award-winning journalist, CNN political commentator, bestselling author, and founder of multiple social impact organizations, they bring a unique perspective on the power of dialogue and partnership, drawing on their work to strengthen Black-Jewish relations and build bridges across communities.
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Breakout Sessions
⧉ Autism and Radicalization: Bridging the Gaps and Restoring Hope
2:40 pm - 4:00 pm | Rooms 301 / 302
This multidisciplinary, international team will provide education and insight into the vulnerabilities of people on the autism spectrum to radicalization and provide practical strategies for working with individuals, their families, clinicians, courts, law enforcement, and public services to reduce risk and restore hope.
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⧉ Still Standing: A Blueprint for Sustainable Hate Prevention
2:40 pm - 4:00 pm | Rooms 317 / 318
Local groups and civic institutions have led anti-hate response and prevention efforts for decades, some tracing roots back to the 1960s. This workshop draws on that longevity, featuring organizations that have sustained their work through changing funding landscapes, political climates, and emerging threats. Panelists will share lessons on sustainable funding models, resident-led and city-sponsored efforts, and hybrid partnerships spanning campuses, schools, and businesses. A facilitated peer-to-peer discussion will follow that explores what has sustained decades-long collaboration, what has hindered it, and how lasting partnerships translate into long-term hate prevention.
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⧉ Youth Leadership, Stronger Prevention: Intergenerational Strategies from Youth Changemakers
2:40 pm - 4:00 pm | Ballroom
Young people bring unique insight into the risks, challenges, and opportunities shaping their communities, yet they are often excluded from prevention planning and decision-making. This session will elevate the voices of young leaders who are driving efforts to build belonging, support their peers, and prevent hate-fueled violence. It will also feature adults who directly work with youth via prevention programs. Panelists will share lessons learned from youth-adult partnerships and offer real-world examples of how intergenerational collaboration strengthens prevention efforts. Attendees will gain practical tools, strategies, and models for meaningfully integrating youth perspectives and leadership into their own programs, policies, and community-based prevention work.
- Moderator
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⧉ Global Lessons in Early Warning-Early Response for Local Violence Prevention
2:40 pm - 4:00 pm | Rooms 315 / 316
Early Warning–Early Response (EWER) systems have long strengthened community resilience against violence internationally. This session explores how these proven, cross-sectoral models—engaging residents, civil society, and local institutions—can be adapted to prevent hate-fueled and targeted violence in communities around the world. Drawing on case studies and practitioner experience from both global and domestic contexts, panelists will examine what makes EWER effective, how it complements approaches like behavioral threat assessment and management, and what transferable lessons exist for building local infrastructure that identifies early warning signs and mobilizes trusted responders before violence occurs.
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⧉ New Strategies for State and Local Governments to Fill the Gaps in Preventing Hate-Fueled Violence
2:40 pm - 4:00 pm | Rooms 304 / 305
State and local government agencies can play an important role in preventing hate-fueled violence, investigating incidents, and enforcing laws against hate crimes. This panel of state and local government officials will highlight the resources, civil and criminal laws and regulations, and other creative tools needed to fulfill their vital mission to protect and defend targeted communities.
- Moderator
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Break
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm
Profiles of Upstanders and the Power of Delegations to Drive Change
4:25 pm - 5:10 pm | Ballroom
This session highlights individuals and delegations who acted to stop violence, aid the wounded, and prevent future attacks—including first responders who stepped in amid chaos and uncertainty, and a community delegation that turned its Summit experience into lasting local change, from education and law enforcement training to new legislation, and a prevented attack. Panelists will explore what drives people to act despite fear and risk, and how a single Summit experience can translate into sustained, tangible impact back home. These stories underscore why earlier intervention matters, so prevention doesn't have to depend on extreme individual risk once violence is already underway.
- Moderator
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Nihilistic Violence: Activating Prevention Pathways Around the World
5:10 pm - 6:00 pm | Ballroom
Eradicate Hate was among the first organizations to spotlight nihilistic violence, a growing threat in which vulnerable children are groomed online and coerced into self-harm, sexual exploitation, violence (including school shootings), and suicide. This session will provide an update on the threat profile and highlight the Working Group’s solutions, including public education, juvenile justice engagement, and survivor support. The panel will also address the current gaps and challenges, including definitional disputes, the need for interview-based research, the victim-to-perpetrator progression, and how disciplines outside the traditional extremism field can provide tested strategies for addressing some of these issues.
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Speaker Photo
6:00 pm - 6:10 pm
Networking Reception
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Thursday, September 17

AI Roundtable Breakfast (Invite Only)
8:00 am - 9:00 am | Ballroom
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Keynote featuring Dr. Robert Pape
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Ballroom
Robert A. Pape is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he also founded and serves as Director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats. He is widely regarded to be one of the nation’s leading experts on both political violence and national security. His most recent book, Our Own Worst Enemies: America in the Age of Violent Populism, is scheduled for release in September.
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The Cost of Public Service: Confronting Political Violence and Intimidation
9:20 am - 10:10 am | Ballroom
Political violence, threats, and harassment against judges, elected officials, and public servants are creating a chilling effect on democratic participation in the U.S. and globally. This panel will examine the drivers and impacts of political intimidation and focus on practical solutions to protect public officials, strengthen civic trust, improve accountability, and safeguard democratic participation while preserving open debate.
- Moderator
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Break
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Breakout Sessions
⧉ Enhancing School Safety: The Evolving Role of Law Enforcement in Educational Environments
10:20 am - 11:20 am
This panel examines how law enforcement supports school safety through school resource officers, behavioral threat assessment teams, and climate-building initiatives. Panelists will discuss collaborative strategies used in K–12 schools and higher education to prevent violence, strengthen relationships, and create safe, supportive learning environments for students, staff, and communities.
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⧉ What Went Right: Lessons from Temple Israel
10:20 am - 11:20 am
Security professionals often study failures. This panel examines a success. When a devastating terrorist attack targeted Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, years of planning, training, strong partnerships with law enforcement, and an extraordinary community response were put to the test—and they worked. Hear from those directly involved as they walk through the Temple Israel response as a case study in preparedness and coordination.
⧉ A Delegation that Delivers
10:20 am - 11:20 am
In the first year of Eradicate Hate, Salt Lake City sent a delegation of people from many different backgrounds to the Global Summit to learn what they each could do in their own community to prevent identity-based hate. Upon returning home, they formed a local organization that conducted community education, trained law enforcement, launched multifaith initiatives, and helped secured the passage of new hate crimes legislation. This delegation has returned to the Summit each year since, continuing to take ideas back to deliver transformative change in their home community. In this session, members of the delegation provide personal stories and practical tips on how a delegation of individuals can translate their Eradicate Hate experience into tangible initiatives in their own community, and how their efforts came to fruition when they were able to prevent an attack on places of worship in 2026.
- Moderator
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Break
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Covering the Gap: Financing Strategies to Promote Prevention
11:30 am - 12:20 pm | Ballroom
Mass violence carries staggering costs — lost lives, litigation, and liability. What if that cost calculus became the biggest untapped funding source for prevention work? At a time when grants are shrinking, insurance markets offer something rarer: a sustainable, self-renewing revenue stream. This session explores how insurers can use premium discounts to incentivize workplaces, schools, and providers to adopt threat assessment programs. It will also address another key barrier: the lack of liability coverage for clinicians taking on this work. Featuring voices from insurance, risk management, and violence prevention, panelists will show how aligning financial incentives with safety could institutionalize prevention funding, scaling evidence-based work faster than mandates alone.
- Moderator
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Closing Remarks and Survey
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Ballroom
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Post-Summit Programming
Operationalizing BTAM in Pennsylvania
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Rooms 304 / 305
This roundtable brings together operational county and regional behavioral threat assessment teams from across Pennsylvania to share real-world successes, lessons learned, and ongoing challenges. Participants will discuss practical approaches to identifying and managing threats, highlight gaps in current systems, and explore opportunities to strengthen coordination, training, and prevention efforts across communities.
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Allegheny County Stakeholders Meeting
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Rooms 304 / 305
This roundtable convenes stakeholders from across Allegheny County to strengthen and better coordinate threat assessment and intervention efforts across schools and hospitals. Participants will share current practices, identify gaps, and explore practical ways to build a more integrated, collaborative approach to early identification, response, and prevention.
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The Summit offers a unique opportunity to confront the corrosive influence of bigotry and hatred in our society. In order for us to address these challenges, we first must acknowledge their painful and destructive impact in our communities and in our country. I am grateful to serve as a Global Advisor to this timely and powerful initiative.

Tom Ridge Chairman, Ridge Global

Eradicate Hate Global Summit

2026 Agenda

Tuesday, September 15

Working Group Convenings #1

Speakers

Working Group Convenings #2

Speakers

Welcome Remarks

Speakers

Survivors in Action

Moderator

Speakers

Working Group Updates

Speakers

Keynote featuring Dr. Alfred Garfinkle

Speakers

The Converging Threat: Understanding Intersecting Ideologies of Hate-Fueled Violence

Moderator

Speakers

Programmatic Updates

Speakers

Break

Speakers

A World of Lessons: International Strategies to Counter Hate

Speakers

Legal Frontiers: Law, Liability, and Online Harm

Moderator

Promise and Peril: AI’s Role in Enabling—and Preventing—Violence

Moderaor

Speakers

Networking Reception

Speakers

Speaker Dinner (Invitation Only)

Speakers

Wednesday, September 16

Welcoming Remarks and Bridge Builder Award

Speakers

The Emerging Response to the Bondi Beach Massacre

Moderator

Speakers

Working Group Updates

Speakers

Breaking the Silence: Exploring Gender to Engage Every Bystander in Prevention

Moderator

Speakers

Break

Speakers

Higher Education Meet and Greet

Breakout Sessions

⧉ The Tree of Life: Creating Spaces of Memory

Speakers

⧉ From Signals to Safeguards: Distinguishing Online Threats to Prevent Hate-Fueled Violence

Speakers

⧉ Faith as Frontline Prevention: Lessons in Prevention from the Frontline of Theologically Conservative and Moderate Faith Traditions

Moderator

Speakers

⧉ Right-Sizing Prevention: Cities and Counties as the Effective Governance Level for Preventing Hate, Extremism, and Targeted Violence in North America

Moderator

Speakers

⧉ Crafting a Primary Prevention Approach to Hate Motivated Violence

Speakers

Lunch

Speakers

Working Group Updates

Speakers

Research Spotlight

Speakers

From Headlines to Harm Reduction: Covering a Rising Threat without Normalizing It

Moderator

Speakers

Keynote featuring Shari Redstone and Van Jones

Speakers

Breakout Sessions

⧉ Autism and Radicalization: Bridging the Gaps and Restoring Hope

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