<span class="vcard">Eric Rosand</span>

Eric Rosand

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Eric Rosand (@eric_rosand) is the Executive Director of the Strong Cities Network. He has more than two decades of experience working with governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, academics, and the private sector on international counterterrorism and P/CVE issues. This includes more than six years as a senior official at the U.S. State Department, where he was the international policy director for the White House CVE Summit and led efforts to develop and launch the Global Counterterrorism Forum, its inspired institutions, and the Strong Cities Network. He previously was a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and served as co-director of the Global Center on Cooperative Security, and as a lawyer at the U.S. State Department and at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

His writings, including on the role of cities and other local actors in P/CVE, have appeared in a wide range of publications such as the American Journal of International Law, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Global Observatory, Just Security, The Hill, Lawfare, Order from Chaos, Time, and War on the Rocks. He holds a BA in history from Haverford College, a JD from Columbia University School of Law, and an LLM (Hons) in international law from Cambridge University. He is also on LinkedIn.

The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Strong Cities Network nor its members or partners.

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The sign is in the colors of the rainbow flag, and the man is surrounded by a crowd of people all looking forward, presumably toward a speaker.
A picture shows the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate. Children are pressed against a chain link fence during a security operation by the Kurdish Asayish security forces and the special forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces, on August 26, 2022. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
People hold a banner as riot police patrols in background during a march called by the UAS union to call for better security measures against terrorism, in Ouagadougou on September 16, 2019. (Photo by IISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)
Members of the Kenyan polices General Service Unit (GSU) take part in a joint exercise hosted by the US embassy to build counter-terrorism capabilities, in Nairobi, Kenya, on October 30, 2021. They wear camouflage and headgear and carry large guns while walking past a truck with police lights.
A US army instructor walks next to Malian soldiers on April 12, 2018 during an anti-terrorism exercise at the Kamboinse - General Bila Zagre military camp near Ouagadougo in Burkina Faso. The Malian soldiers stand facing a hill while holding guns.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and Diplomats take part in the Global Counterterrorism Forum in Istanbul on June 7, 2012. They sit at tables arranged in a large horseshoe in a large opulent room.
A US army instructor walks next to Malian soldiers on April 12, 2018 during an anti-terrorism exercise at the Kamboinse
Members of a displaced family sit outside a UNHCR tent in the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp in the al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria on August 25, 2020, where families of Islamic State (IS) foreign fighters are held.
Two waving flags of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
paper work displayed on a glass panel during a hackathon competition reads "ISIS Inc Extremist Club"
Fully veiled women walk behind a man with a gun in the northern Kuridish-Syrian city of Qamishli as Uzbek women and children linked to the Islamic State group are handed over to diplomats from the Central Asian country for repatriation, on May 29, 2019.
A crowded prison cell is filled with men suspected of being affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on October 26, 2019. They sit and lay side by side on thin cots on the floor.
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