Cutting the Lifeline of Terror: What's Next After Iraq?

July, 2004

Joined by moderator Stephen Heintz, president, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, responder Richard N. Haass, president, Council on Foreign Relations, and Ruth A. Wooden, president, Public Agenda. Proposes a counterterrorism strategy to win over Muslim moderates and stem the recruitment of new terrorists. The full transcript of the session is available for download in Adobe Acrobat format, as is Mr. Yankelovich's PowerPoint presentation.

Public Agenda's founder, Daniel Yankelovich, has drawn on decades of public opinion experience to suggest a different approach to U.S. counter-terrorism strategy. Based on analysis of public opinion in the Islamic world, Europe and in the U.S., Mr. Yankelovich's approach is designed to win over Muslim moderates and stop or at least stem the recruitment of new terrorists. Read more about his approach, presented at an event co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Public Agenda.

Download Daniel Yankelovich's presentation on public opinion, foreign policy and the global struggle against terrorism. The presentation requires the free Adobe Acrobat reader. Find out more about Daniel Yankelovich, a distinguished social scientist as well as founder and chairman of Public Agenda.

Stephen Heintz, who moderated the session, is president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Find out about their latest intiative, U.S. in the World: Talking Global Issues with Americans, a Practical Guide from The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Aspen Institute.

Find out more about responder Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, author and a former director of policy planning at the State Department and director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution.