3:30pm to 3:33pm Moderator Introduction:
Dr. Atique Mirza, President, CT APPNA Chapter

 

3:33pm to 3:40pm - Session III opening remarks by moderator - watch his opening remarks on YouTube.
Session Moderator: Dr. Saud Anwar

Saud Anwar MD, MPH, FCCP, has specialized in Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care medicine at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He then joined the department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Yale University and completed his fellowship in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and earned his Masters in Public Health (MPH) at Yale University. He is currently also serving as Chair of the Department of Family Practice and Internal Medicine of two of the regional hospitals in Connecticut and Vice Chair of ethics committee for the two hospitals.
Dr. Saud Anwar has served as the President of the Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee. PAKPAC since 1989 has been a nationwide, membership based, not for-profit advocacy organization registered with the US Federal Election Commission. PAKPAC's mission is to advance and strengthen U.S.-Pakistan relations, while working to preserve, protect and promote ideals of civil liberties cherished by all Americans.
Dr. M. Saud Anwar is also the founder and current Co-Chair of American Muslim Peace Initiative. Their work includes strengthening the intra-faith and interfaith understanding within Islam and between Islam and other religions. AMPI work has included help and support to under privileged communities in United States, and peace missions to Middle East and South Asia.
Dr. Anwar is the Founder and the Past-President of Pakistani American Association of Connecticut. He is one of the Founders of Association of Pakistani Professionals (AOPP). He has served as the chairperson for The Disaster Management Committee of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America (APPNA) and the Legislative, Advocacy and Governmental Affairs Committee of APPNA. He has served as the Vice President of Pakistan Public Health Foundation, and Board of Directors of Ibtida, an organization working towards children and women literacy in rural parts of Pakistan
Dr. Anwar’s activities and volunteerism to coordinate a response in the aftermath of September 11th earned him official recognition from the American Red Cross. He has testified to the 109th Congress for the Committee on Homeland Security about the American Muslim Community. He has also testified to the State of Connecticut legislature on multiple occasions. He is currently the Chair of the Human Relations Commission for the town of South Windsor and member of the States Commission for the Asian Pacific American Community. For his services to the immigrant communities as well as to the State of Connecticut in his various roles his work has been recognized by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State and many legislators of the Connecticut General Assembly.

 

3:40pm to 4:00pm: Ambassador Husain Haqqani, Ambassador of Pakistan to United States
“The Pakistan –United States Partnership for Prevention of Radicalization" - Watch it on YouTube.

Husain Haqqani is currently serving as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States in Washington, DC. A trusted advisor of former Pakistani Prime Minsiter, Ms Benazir Bhutto, Ambassador Haqqani is known as a Professor at Boston University and former Director of the Center for International Relations. He is also the Co-Chair of the Hudson Institute's Project on the Future of the Muslim World as well as editor of the journal ‘Current Trends in Islamist Thought' published from Washington DC.
Haqqani came to the U.S. in 2002 as a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC and an adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He is a leading journalist, diplomat, and former advisor to Pakistani Prime ministers. His syndicated column is published in several newspapers in South Asia and the Middle East, including Oman Tribune, Jang, The Indian Express, Gulf News and The Nation (Pakistan). Haqqani started his journalism career with work as East Asian correspondent for Arabia - The Islamic World Review and Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review . During this period he wrote extensively on Muslims in China and East Asia and Islamic political movements. Covering the war in Afghanistan enabled him to acquire deep understanding of the militant Jihadi groups.
Haqqani has contributed to numerous international publications, including The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times , International Herald Tribune, Foreign Policy, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic and The Financial Times . He regularly comments on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Islamic politics and extremism on BBC, PBS, CNN, NBC, Fox News and ABC. Haqqani also had a distinguished career in government. He served as an advisor to Pakistani Prime ministers Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Nawaz Sharif, and Benazir Bhutto. From 1992 to 1993 he was Pakistan's ambassador to Sri Lanka.
Mr Haqqani's 2005 book ‘Pakistan Between Mosque and Military' has been praised in major international journals and newspapers as a path-breaking book on Pakistan's political history. Other recent publications include Pakistan: Avoiding the Traps of the Past (Policy brief, Carnegie Endowment, 2002); The Gospel of Jihad (Foreign Policy magazine, September-October 2002); Islam's Medieval Outposts (Foreign Policy, November-December 2002; Islam's Weakened Moderates (Foreign Policy, July-August 2003); Political Islam beyond the Middle East: Pakistan and Afghanistan (in ‘Political Islam: Challenges for U.S. Policy', Aspen Institute, July 2003), Think Again: The Causes of Islamist Terrorism (Foreign Policy, January 2006).

 

4:00pm to 4:15pm: Margo Schlanger
“Securing America while Protecting our Civil Rights" - Watch it on YouTube.

Margo Schlanger, Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, DHS (CRCL). CRCL office’s activities include particular attention to outreach and communication with American Arab, Muslim, Sikh, Somali, and South Asian communities. Congress established this position, reporting directly to the Secretary, to, among other things, “assist the Secretary, directorates, and offices of the Department to develop, implement, and periodically review Department policies and procedures to ensure that the protection of civil rights and civil liberties is appropriately incorporated into Department programs and activities,” and to “review and assess information concerning abuses of civil rights, civil liberties, and profiling on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion, by employees and officials of the Department.
Professor Margo Schlanger joined the University of Michigan Law School as a new faculty member in Fall 2009, bringing her expertise in civil rights, prison reform, torts, and empirical legal studies. Prior to that, she had been a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard from 1998 to 2004. She earned her J.D. from Yale in 1993; while at Yale, she served as Book Reviews Editor of the Yale Law Journal and received the Vinson Prize. She then served as law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998, Prof. Schlanger was a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, where she worked to remedy civil rights abuses by prison and police departments and earned two Division Special Achievement Awards in the process. Prof. Schlanger is the founder and (when not on leave) the director of the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, a web-based repository of information and documents relating to large-scale civil rights injunctive cases. The Clearinghouse is housed at the law school.
Prof. Schlanger, a leading authority on prisons and inmate litigation, was the reporter for the American Bar Association's revision of its Standards governing the Legal Treatment of Prisoners. She served on the Vera Institute’s blue ribbon Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, and she worked as an advisor on development of proposed national standards implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act. She has testified before the Prison Rape Elimination Commission about litigation and its role in preventing sexual abuse in jails and prisons, and before Congress in support of proposed amendments to the Prison Litigation Reform Act. She has served as chair of the Association of American Law School’s section on Law and the Social Sciences. In future years, Prof. Schlanger will teach torts, constitutional law, and classes relating to civil rights (such as Civil Rights Injunctions) and to prisons (such as the Constitutional Law of Incarceration).

 

4:15pm to 4:30pm: Dr. Steve Eichel
“The Psychological Web of the Extremist Mind and How to undo it?" - Watch it on YouTube.

Dr. Steve K. D. Eichel helped in the understanding and management of the “Beltway Sniper” Lee Malvo’s case as well as other terrorist cases in custody. He is Forensic Psychologist with experience and interest in violent extremism. His efforts in treating extremists from many faith communities gives him an insight into better prevention, identification and treatment of these cases before they reach the point of forensic psychology.
Dr. Eichel received his B.A. from Columbia University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a licensed psychologist since 1982. After completing a clinical psychology internship at the Devereux Foundation, he worked at the Irving Schwartz Institute for Children & Youth, followed by several years as the director for a large urban mental health center in Camden, NJ. He was then appointed consulting forensic psychologist to the Family Court and juvenile justice systems of Camden County (NJ). Returning to Pennsylvania, Dr. Eichel served as Clinical Director of the St. Francis Homes for Boys from 1989-1994, and directed the well-regarded Widener University-affiliated clinical psychology internship there. He also worked as a training consultant to the University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ and as a family therapist for Community Centered Treatment, a multisystemic family therapy program funded by the Montgomery County (PA) family court and juvenile justice system.
Dr. Eichel is on the faculty of Villanova University's drug & alcohol counseling program and he is an Adjunct Professor in the counseling psychology program at Arcadia University where he has taught the course on advanced trauma counseling. He has srved as President of the Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis (GPSCH). Dr. Eichel was the 2006-07 President of the American Academy of Counseling Psychology, one of the national academies of advanced practitioners (ABPP diplomates), and is a mentor to future ABPP candidates. Dr. Eichel is the 2009-10 Chair of the Council of Presidents of Psychology Specialty Academies and is active in the Independent Practice Section of the Society for Counseling Psychology (APA Division 17). He chairs the Psychology & Law Committee of the Delaware Psychological Association and was appointed in 2008 to the Delaware Board of Examiners of Psychologists. Dr. Eichel has written articles on therapy, hypnosis, and cults, and has authored two book chapters; he has presented over 150 workshops, papers and panels to local, state, regional and national professional associations.

4:30pm to 4:45pm: Michael Langone
“Violent Extremism- Rehabilitation Process." - Watch it on YouTube.

Michael D. Langone, Ph.D., a counseling psychologist, is International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA’s) Executive Director. He was the founder editor of Cultic Studies Journal (CSJ), the editor of CSJ’s successor, Cultic Studies Review, and editor of Recovery from Cults. He is co-author of Cults: What Parents Should Know and Satanism and Occult-Related Violence: What You Should Know. Dr. Langone has spoken and written widely about cults. In 1995, he received the Leo J. Ryan Award from the "original" Cult Awareness network and was honored as the Albert V. Danielsen visiting Scholar at Boston University. Founded in 1979, the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) is a global network of people concerned about psychological manipulation and abuse in cultic groups, alternative movements, and other environments. ICSA is tax-exempt, supports civil liberties, and is not affiliated with any religious or commercial organizations. ICSA's mission is to apply research and professional perspectives to the problems encountered by family members and former group members adversely affected by a cultic involvement and to forewarn those who might become involved in potentially harmful group situations.

 

4:45pm to 5:00pm: Alejandro J. Beutel
“Building Bridges to Strengthen America" - Watch it on YouTube.

Alejandro J. Beutel is Muslim Public Affairs Committee's Government Liaison. Alejandro has authored several academic papers, articles and reports on topics of Islam, international security, religious liberty and democratization. In addition, Alejandro has addressed several government, academic and civil society forums on these topics. He has also been quoted and featured in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, CNN, Al-Jazeera English, IslamOnline.net, Fox News, the Huffington Post, and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.
Alejandro is also most recently the author of MPAC’s new Countering Violent Extremism and Counterradicalization policy paper “Building Bridges to Strengthen America.” He is also the creator and manager of the "MPAC Post-9/11 Terrorism Incident Database", which tracks and analyzes Muslim and non-Muslim violent extremist plots against the United States since September 11, 2001. Currently a Master's Degree candidate in Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park, Alejandro received his Bachelors of Science in International Relations and Diplomacy at Seton Hall University.

 

5:00pm to 6:00pm: Questions and Answers.

 

6:00pm Closing remarks by - Zaheer Sharaf, President, Pakistani American Association of Connecticut.