Phone : (801) 210-5775
Email : info@americanctr.org
The Center is established out of the necessity to better protect American safety and security, American national and international interests, and the American way of life, by identifying, targeting and destroying extremist terrorist threats.
The mission of The Center is to diminish the capability of the extremist and terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda, ISIS and other terrorist organizations in recruiting, mobilizing, regrouping and re-emerging as new and even more vicious and dangerous terrorist groups Since 9/11 terror attacks, despite international focus, terror groups have been able to re-emerge as stronger, more organized and better equipped. While counterterrorism operations, led by the United States have degraded terrorist operational capabilities, more needs to be done to diminish their potential to recruit and radicalize youth. Recent attacks in London, Vienna and Paris, are a testimony that operational surveillance is insufficient to prevent mass-scale terror attacks that harm innocent civilians and seriously disrupt modern civilized public life.
The direct cost of the September 11 attack has been the loss of 2,996 innocent lives. The United States is estimated to have incurred several tens of billions of dollars in direct economic losses due to the terrorist attacks and the terror threats over the years. In addition, the United States is estimated to have lost tens of billions of dollars due to fluctuations in financial markets as a result of terrorist attacks and terror threats, and the disruptions in US companies' ability to do business overseas. The United States alone now spends billions annually on departments directly engaged in combating or preventing terrorism. Combating extremism and terrorism is vital to ensuring a stable economy and fiscal markets for the benefit of American people and American businesses.
The Center's aim is to preserve and protect the values of the modern, civilized and democratic world, the values of personal freedom, dignity and integrity.
The Center will support the implementation of the White House's National Strategy for Counterterrorism and United States Department of Homeland Security's Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence.
The Center is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and operates through affiliates in London, Paris, Vienna and throughout the Middle East. The Center is a legal organization and is subject to US federal laws and regulations.
The Center coordinates its work with, and supports legitimate and democratic governments, and lawful security and intelligence agencies across the World, as well as with United States diplomatic missions in foreign countries.
Over the past two decades, terrorist groups have been successful in diversifying their tactics, networking across countries and continents, and moving terrorists and assets across borders. Al Qaida continues to operate active and sleeping cells and ISIS went as far as to establish an “Islamic State” spreading geographically across Syria and Iraq. The Center will support democratic governments and lawful security agencies to build their capacities to understand, mitigate and counter such advancements of tactics. The Center goal is to help democratic governments to advance their strategies to meet the ever-evolving new terror threats. It has become apparent that security agencies are insufficient to counter extremism and terrorism through their existing standard operating procedures. The Center will support strategies that are based on combined power of the intelligence and security agencies, democratically elected government, local levels of governing institutions, civil society, good-will and law-abiding citizens, youth groups, political parties, media, private sector, to reaffirm the resolve, and enhance and improve national strategies and capabilities to identify and combat terrorist and extremist groups as well as terror threats before they emerge.
The Center trains lawful security agencies on combating extremism and terrorism and ensures inter-agency and international coordination by effectively sharing knowledge, skills, successful techniques, tactics and effective operational capabilities. Countries in Europe and the Middle East are in need of a platform to share experiences and further build capabilities to coordinate, cooperate, and improve their national preparedness and prevention capabilities. The Center's work is based on enabling strong partnerships in enhancing and improving counter-terrorism capabilities and efforts. Through training, The Center will support foreign partners to better address terror threats in order to prevent these threats from undermining the interest of the United States and the interest of the free and modern democratic world. The training is aimed at identifying areas of improvement of coordination and cooperation to enhance capabilities to better identify, neutralize and eliminate terror threats.
The Center supports comprehensive research on understanding the methods and tactics used by extremist groups to attract new recruits to their ranks. The research is also aimed at understanding organizational structures, hierarchy, communication plans, channels and interconnectivity, and the (mis)use of cyberspace by various extremist and terrorist groups. The Center's research is aimed at building effective training programs and counter-messaging strategies for preventing terrorist groups from exploiting current advanced technological tools and platforms to recruit and mobilize online. Terror groups utilize technological advancements of the democratic World, and weaponize modern social platforms, in their mission to terrorize and ultimately annihilate the democratic world. The Center's research is aimed at using the modern social media tools and platforms to counter and combat terrorist and extremist groups' messaging and ideology.
A key element of radicalizing youth is their lack of trust in democracy and in the democratic governing systems and institutions. The Center supports efforts to create strategic public engagement plans with youth that are vulnerable to radicalization, and build youth's confidence and trust in democratically elected institutions. Through these programs, Center empowers and enables government's capacities to engage media, civil society, private sector, youth groups and organizations, modern clerics, youth that are vulnerable to radicalization, to prevent and counter terrorism and extremism. This flagship program is aimed to provide avenues for youth to engage in political processes and instilling feelings of self-worth and relevance among youth, which are presented as key to combating extremism and terrorism.
Members of extremist groups who have been captured and incarcerated have demonstrated an ability to radicalize and recruit from the general population in those facilities and their communities. The Center understands the need to develop effective programs to de-radicalize, reeducate and monitor imprisoned terrorist fighters and those influenced by extremist ideologies. The program will focus on including familial and community support networks to ensure the progress of deradicalization is maintained and the deradicalized youth are in turn used to counter and combat extremist and terrorist ideology. The effectiveness of reeducating and deradicalizing youth is crucial in the ability to disrupt, diminish and destroy extremist and terrorist groups' ability to recruit and mobilize.
Many countries have developed their own individual national strategies. The United Nations, EU, OSCE and other inter-governmental agencies have developed plans and allocated resources to combating extremism and terrorism. However, there is a grave discrepancy in strategy and methods. The extremist and terrorist groups' ability to organize more uniformly begs the need for far better coordination and cooperation at the international level. Political agendas are often at the heart of serious attempts to unify strategies and attempts to coordinate and cooperate at the national level. The Center will engage various countries, their policy-makers and relevant stakeholders in a process that is aimed at ensuring proper, meaningful and effective sharing of concepts, goals and objectives. Terrorists goals and objectives are uniformed and unified, and therefore they can be only defeated with a more uniformed, unified and a forceful, willful and comprehensive platform to combat extremism and terrorism at the international level.
Extremist and terrorist groups have been successful in utilizing the internet and social media outlets to recruit across borders and continents. They have been able to sell their distorted religious messages of Islam to brainwash, recruit and mobilize effectively. They have been successful because they have been consistent and adamant in enforcing a false common identity and a feeling among extremists and terrorists “of belonging to a greater Godly cause”. The Center will engage with vigor to undermine terrorist groups ideology through consistent and wide-spread counter-messaging strategy and on-line media campaigns. The Center will discredit terrorist narratives and fully expose their vicious, inhumane and morbid ideology. The Center will expose how un-Godly and inhumane terrorist ideology is. The Center will work with European and Middle Eastern governments to educate masses of schoolkids on threats of extremism and terrorism, work with clergy and religious leaders to create a platform of educating believers on the threats of extremist ideology, and work with security agencies to put in place training programs to train police and military on the threats of extremist and terrorist narratives. The counter-messaging program will be complemented by a campaign on non-violent communication, conflict resolution and conflict mitigation, as a substitute to address grievances and points of contention.
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