Title Religion, Identity, and Countering Violent Extremism / convener: Geneive Abdo ; co-author: Nathan Brown

Published Washington, D.C. : Atlantic Council, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (19 pages) : color map, black and white photograph, color photograph Contents Foreword -- Executive Summary -- I The Context and Objectives -- II Religious Identity in a Shifting World -- III The Democratization of Authority within Islam -- IV The Rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham -- V Contemporary Shia-Sunni Rivalry and the Eruption of Violent Sectarianism -- VI State Responses -- VII Policy Implications: What is to Be Done? Summary "In recent decades, Muslims have been debating political and social aspects of their religious teachings in new ways. The religious debates are connected to and sometimes stem in considerable part from underlying political and social trends--demographic shifts; rising education; unaccountable and authoritarian governance; stuttering economic and governmental performance; and corruption. They cannot, however, be wholly reduced to those trends. Religion is not an isolated field, but neither is it simply a mask for other struggles; the terms and outcomes of religious debates matter in their own right. It is precisely for that reason that the debates are receiving increasing attention not merely from those involved in them but also from non-Muslims in various policy communities. In particular, there is escalating alarm in security-oriented circles that radical individuals and movements, making their arguments in Islamic terms, are threatening global and regional security through terrorism, revolutionary activity, and other forms of political violence"--Publisher's description Notes "September 21, 2016"--Table of contents page "A Working Group Report of the Middle East Strategy Task Force." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Atlantic Council, viewed September 21, 2016) Subject Islamic fundamentalism -- Middle East Radicalism -- Middle East -- Religious aspects Religion and politics -- Middle East Ideology -- Middle East -- Religious aspects Ethnic relations. Ideology -- Religious aspects. Islamic fundamentalism. Radicalism -- Religious aspects. Religion. Religion and politics. SUBJECT Middle East -- Religion -- 21st century Middle East -- Ethnic relations -- 21st century Subject Middle East. Form Electronic book Author Brown, Nathan J., author. Atlantic Council of the United States. Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, publisher, issuing body. ISBN 9781619774612 1619774615

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