“The Challenge and the Potential Promise of AI in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism,” by Alistair Millar, Fourth Freedom Forum (3 September 2026).
Adapted from a shorter article published in February 2026 in The Sanctions Age, authors Alistair Millar and Nathanael Tilahun argue that the evolution of sanctions into instruments of systemic economic isolation and punishment demands a normative consolidation that arrests and reverses this trend.
“Moving Beyond the Security Council’s Impasse to Support Afghanistan,” by Aref Dostyar, CJ Pine, and George A. Lopez, IPI Global Observatory, (25 March 2026).
“To Support Peace Efforts, the West Needs a Coordinated Way to Effectively Reduce Sanctions,” by Stephen J. Fallon and George A. Lopez, Just Security, (27 February 2025).
This study by the Fourth Freedom Forum’s 2024 Howard S. Brembeck Fellow, Amina Ahmed, emphasizes the critical role the Afghan diaspora plays in lobbying their host nations for meaningful support for Afghans in Afghanistan, refugees, and those trapped in limbo without legal status in countries like Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey. In essence, this brief serves as a call to action for the diaspora to organize and advocate effectively for their fellow Afghans.
Noor Ghazi, an Iraqi-American activist, tells Anna Romandash about her journey to peacebuilding, her work with US and Iraqi students and peace activists, and how she supports youth in her home country recover from war trauma. Published in Peace Insight.
“Noor Ghazi: Helping bring peace to her fellow Iraqis,” in Peace Insight, 6 June 2023.
Published in Manara Magazine, Fourth Freedom Forum Brembeck Fellow Anna Romandash interviews Yanar Mohammed, a well-known Iraqi feminist, for her perspective on Iraq twenty years after the US-led war as it still struggles with the consequences of the war.
“Women’s Freedom in Iraq: A Conversation With Yanar Mohammed,” in Manara Magazine, 4 May 2023.
Made possible with support from the European Union, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the German Federal Foreign Office, the Securing the Future Initiative (a project of The Soufan Center and the Fourth Freedom Forum) launched in September 2021 on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
This report provides an independent review and assessment of the United Nations Security Council’s counterterrorism activities over the past two decades. The report’s findings and recommendations are informed by desk research, surveys, and numerous off-the-record interviews with experts and practitioners, and the authors’ combined experience of working on multilateral counterterrorism issues for more than 50 years.
“Five Goals For Ethical Post-sanctions Peacebuilding,” by George A. Lopez and Beatrix Geaghan-Breiner, Peace News, (September 2022).
Proceedings from a sanctions conference on Sanctions, Incentives, and Human Security: Economic Statecraft and Humanitarian Crises; hosted at Wilton Park from 16-18 May 2022 in partnership with the Fourth Freedom Forum and the Sanctions and Security Research Project.
