Naureen Chowdhury Fink (Guest)
Naureen Chowdhury Fink is a Senior Policy Analyst at IPI, where she currently leads the counterterrorism portfolio and works on multilateral approaches to transnational security challenges. While at IPI, Naureen has written on global initiatives to promote deradicalization and disengagement from violent extremism and on nontraditional security challenges in Asia. She is also engaged in projects examining the UN’s approaches to countering global terrorism as well as political violence in South Asia. Among her publications at IPI are, “Bombs and Ballots: Terrorism, Political Violence, and Governance in Bangladesh”; IPI Blue Paper on Global Terrorism; "Countering Terrorism in South Asia: Strengthening Multilateral Engagement" (with Eric Rosand and Jason Ipe); "Beyond Terrorism: Deradicalization and Disengagement from Violent Extremism" (with Ellie Hearne); “On the Borderlines: Politics, Religion and Violence in Bangladesh” with Itty Abraham, Meredith Weiss and Edward Newman, eds. Political Violence in South and Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives (United Nations University Press, 2010). She has also appeared as a media commentator and interviewee and has participated in a number of international conferences on terrorism and radicalization.
Naureen obtained her BA from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), and an MA in War Studies from King’s College London, where she wrote her thesis on diplomatic negotiation and the Arab-Israeli conflict, “Negotiating with the Enemy: The Oslo Accords and their Implications for Israel, the PLO, and Hamas.”
Introduction
FREErad!cals is the ICSR blog. It's a forum for debate and fresh ideas on radicalisation and political violence. It features some of the most innovative, young thinkers, discussing radicals and radicalisation. They are looking at how the challenge has been understood, and how it should be addressed.



