Robert Örell
Independent Expert, PCVE/CT; Board Member, Senior Consultant, and Training, Violence Prevention Network USA
2023, 2024
Robert Örell has more than two decades of experience in the P/CVE field working with the rehabilitation and reintegration of violent extremists. For more than fifteen years he provided interventions with clients in exit work. For ten years he worked as a director and manager of exit programs.
Currently, he works as a senior international expert focused on capacity development, training, and setting up exit programs. Robert is a senior consultant & trainer for the Violence Prevention Network USA RESTORE program.
His recent work includes advising policy guidelines and recommendations, research interviews with former members of violent extremism, online counselling, and understanding radicalisation in online gaming communities. He advises on several projects around the world.
Robert co-teaches an academic course on the psychology of violence and hate, addressing violent radicalisation and violent extremism.
Since 2011 he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN), co-chairing the working group on Rehabilitation.
Robert was the director of Exit Sweden for ten years and the program director at Exit USA for three years. In 2020-2021 he advised and contributed to the Council of Europe’s counter-terrorism strategy.
In 2016 Robert held a TEDx at TEDx Vilnius. He studied psychotherapy and social pedagogy.
At the Summit
The effort to eradicate hate requires the active participation of every component of our society, to include governments, the private sector, communities of faith and indeed every aspect of civil society. There is no more urgent task in front of us. The organizers of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit are doing the United States and the world an enormous service by tackling hatred and extremism with a focus on honest dialogue and conversation, genuine learning and practical solutions. This will not happen overnight, but the Pittsburgh community’s leadership in this effort is genuinely inspiring and motivating.
