Fighting Radicalism, not ‘Terrorism’: Root Causes of an International Actor Redefined

In the years since the September 11th attacks, Western policymakers, analysts and academics have debated the best approaches to confronting and ending terrorism. Brookings Fellow Omer Taspinar argues that the global fight against extremist violence must move beyond the “war on terror” to a broader strategy of fighting radicalism with human development – an approach that would address the political, economic and social conditions that foment violent radicalism.