About the Hybrid Event
The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us. As the 2024 United States presidential election approaches, communities across America and around the globe are still struggling to understand how so many people are being radicalized and why they are increasingly attracted to violent movements.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss will discuss how tomorrow’s far-right nationalists are being recruited in surprising places, from college campuses and mixed martial arts gyms to clothing stores, online gaming chat rooms, and YouTube cooking channels. Instead of focusing on the how and why of far-right radicalization, Miller-Idriss seeks answers in these physical and virtual spaces where hate is cultivated.
She demonstrates how young people on the margins of our communities are targeted in these settings, how the path to radicalization is a nuanced process of moving in and out of far-right scenes throughout adolescence and adulthood, and reveals innovative strategies we can use to combat extremist radicalization.
Moderation: Rolf Büllmann, former Washington Correspondent for Bayerische Rundfunk
On Tuesday, October 2024, 7 p.m., the Munich Dialogues on Democracy Book Club will discuss Cynthia Miller-Idriss' book Hate in the Homeland. Find more information on the book discussion here.
Photo: Cynthia Miller-Idriss ©Elliott O'Donovan Photography
About the Speaker and Moderator
Elliott O'Donovan Photography
Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a professor at the American University in Washington, D.C., where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) in the Center for University Excellence (CUE). She has testified before the U.S. Congress, has briefed the U.N. Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee, and frequently serves as a keynote speaker and expert panelist on trends in white supremacist and far-right extremism to global academic and policy communities. She appears regularly in the media as an expert source and political commentator, including recent appearances on CNN with Fareed Zakaria, PBS News Hour, MSNBC Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Today Show, and Good Morning America as well as in global media outlets in over a dozen countries. Her most recent book is Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right (Princeton University Press, 2020).
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Rolf Büllmann has been a journalist with the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and German Public Radio (ARD) for more than 25 years. He reported from the Middle East, worked as a parliamentary correspondent in Berlin during the Merkel years and was the BR's Bureau Chief in Washington, D.C., during Obama’s second term and Trump's first year as President. After his return to Germany, he joined the BR’s current affairs radio shows Welt am Morgen and Welt am Abend on Bayern 2 as host and editor.
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Organizers
A part of the Munich Dialogues on Democracy Speakers Series, a cooperation between The Yale Club of Germany e.V. (Munich Chapter) and the Amerikahaus - Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations.
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