A global culture to fight extremism
Maajid Nawaz, Co-Founder & Executive Director of Quilliam and Founder of Khudi, speaks at TED Global 2011
12 July 2011
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Recognising Maajid's thought leadership on countering extremism through Quilliam and its sister organisation Khudi, Ted invited Maajid to speak at its high-profile TED Global (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) annual conference about the power of ideas in Edinburgh in July 2011. In his talk Maajid asked why transnational extremist organisations succeed where democratic movements have a harder time taking hold.
The following video was kindly and expertly created by Across the Pond Productions as an introduction to Maajid's talk
Slides created by Cristian Flemming of ThePublicSociety.com
Maajid's notes from this talk can be downloaded as a pdf here.
Maajid at TED in the media
Lessons we can learn from Nobel Prize troublemakers
By John Elkington, 13 July 2011.
Maajid Nawaz: A global culture to fight extremism
Exchange Magazine, 14 July 2011
Maajid Nawaz: We need an al-Qaeda for democracy
By Emi Kolawole, 15 July 2011.
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