The Roe Green Foundation Conference: SACRED VIOLENCE: RELIGION & TERRORISM (Session 4)

March 30, 2007
Speakers:
Professor Robert M. Chesney, Wake Forest University School of Law
Professor Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University
Dr. S. Amjad Hussain, Professor Emeritus, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, The University of Toledo
Rev. Dr. John C. Lentz, Jr., Forest Hill Church, Cleveland, Ohio
Professor Gregory S. McNeal, Senior Fellow in Counterterrorism and International Law and assistant director, Institute for Global Security Law and Policy
Professor Michel Rosenfeld, Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights, Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Presented by: the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy

Summary: Panel 3: Practical Legal Response to the Roots and Workings of Terrorism

Panel of legal and policy experts will respond to the problems, detailed during the morning session, which are associated with religious extremism and/or religious extremist groups. The panel will then develop and examine potential legislative initiatives to address those problems, and finally will present a proposal.

This year's Roe Green Foundation Conference will examine religiously based terrorism and the potential legal and policy responses. The conference grows out of an interdisciplinary roundtable on Religion and Terrorism held at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in the fall of 2005 and a course on Religion and Terrorism co-taught by professors Amos N. Guiora and Jessie Hill at the law school's 2006 Summer Institute for Global Justice, in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Bringing multidisciplinary perspectives to the topic, the conference employs a unique, interactive format, that of a mock White House Task Force hearing geared toward generating recommendations to the President for dealing with religiously based terrorism. Academic experts from various fields will present papers throughout the morning. In the afternoon, experts in law, religion, and policy, will formulate and recommend draft legislation, using their experience and expertise to integrate the research and ideas presented during the morning.

Category:

Education

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• Case
• Western
• Reserve
• University
• Law
• School
• Sacred
• Violence
• counter
• terrorism
• terroists
• religion
• religious
• extremists
• extremism
• Institute
• Global
• Security
• Policy