People

Ghaffar’s work involves:

• Organising and delivering radicalisation
  awareness training
• Providing strategic consultancy for a wide range of
  public and private organisations
• Co-ordinating outreach efforts to a wide variety of
  individuals and groups
• Working with policy makers and practitioners in
  order to raise awareness of issues of identity,
  belonging and alienation of Muslims in the West
 

Tel:  020 7182 7281
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Ghaffar Hussain is Director of Training and Consultancy at the Quilliam Foundation and author of A Brief History of Islamism. He holds a BSc (HONS) in Psychology from the University of Wales. Ghaffar previously worked as a Business Development Manager for a number of IT firms and ran his own business venture.

 
In his youth, he was a very active supporter of a number of non-violent Islamist organizations in the UK. He now works to challenge extremists' ideas and to promote positive modes of political engagement. Ghaffar regularly travels around the UK, North America, and Europe to deliver lectures and organise training sessions for policy makers and practitioners, as well as students and journalists. These sessions focus on raising awareness of radicalisation as a phenomenon, as well as addressing external contributory factors such as identity, alienation and perceived grievances.

Ghaffar has been quoted in a range of international outlets including: The National, Paris Match, The Guardian, Der Speigel, Kultur Austausch, Islamonline, LBC and the BBC. He is also on the Advisory Council of CSARN (City Security and Resilience Networks).