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Larry Attree

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Larry Attree (@LarryAttree) is a globally recognized expert on peace, conflict, and security issues. Former Head of Global Policy and Advocacy at Saferworld, he has more than two decades of experience and has influenced global agreements on peace, governance, and development themes, including the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States, the Busan Partnership, and the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals. As architect of Saferworld’s peacebuilding responses to crises and threats program, Larry authored and edited numerous studies on stabilization, statebuilding, counterterrorism, countering violent extremism, peace, human rights, security, justice, and development. He has a long track record in peace, rights, and security strategy and in program design, management, training and evaluation, conflict research and analysis, high-level policy advice, advocacy, and coalition building. He has lived and worked for peace in the Balkans, South Asia, Africa, and the Pacific with the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Saferworld and others.

 

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Protesters wearing face masks display anti-terror bill placards during a rally at a university campus in Manila on July 4, 2020. Then-President Duterte signed a contentious anti-terrorism bill into law that critics feared would be used to silence dissent and give the government a new weapon to target opponents.  (Photo by AC DIMATATAC/AFP via Getty Images)

The UN’s Counterterrorism Office Wants a Seven-Fold Budget Increase. First, Tackle Underperformance and Risks.

Sep. 6, 2022
U.S. President George W. Bush speaks 08 November, 2001, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Police and other uniformed people stand behind him.

Two Decades Later, Still Reckoning With 9/11

Sep. 9, 2021 and
Silhouettes of Patrick Zaki, an Egyptian postgraduate student at the University of Bologna, Italy, who has been detained in Egypt since February 7, 2020, sit on every chair placed in the Aula Magna of the University Library of Bologna. The silhouettes are drawn by the artist Gianluca Costantini in action to demand the immediate release of Patrick. July 16, 2020

Biden’s Global Priority No. 1: Turn the Authoritarian Tide

Dec. 8, 2020
A French soldier looks at a child as he patrols in the streets of Gossi, center Mali, on March 25, 2019.

The International Security Echo-Chamber: Getting Civil Society Into the Room

Jul. 31, 2019 , and 1 more

U.N. Peace Operations Should Get Off the Counter-Terror Bandwagon

Sep. 4, 2018 and

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