Academic Fellowships

After 9/11, numerous colleges and universities added terrorism and homeland security courses to their curricula. Many professors and graduate students who taught these courses complained of having insufficient access to the top practitioners or the latest research in the field. In response, FDD created the Academic Fellowship program for university professors entitled “Defending Democracy, Defeating Terrorism.”

The program features an intensive, 10-day course on terrorism and the threat it poses to democratic societies. Using Israel as a case study, professors are given access to top researchers and officials who provide cutting-edge information about the terrorist threats to democracies worldwide. ...More

 

Summer Workshop on Teaching about Terrorism (SWOTT)

FDD is the principal sponsor of the Summer Workshop on Teaching about Terrorism (SWOTT). This unique, U.S.-based effort to provide college professors with the tools they need to teach about the threat of terrorism and the methods used to combat it was inaugurated in 2005 and includes classes that encompass all facets of terrorism studies and field trips to military and other national security-related installations. Program participants also are provided access to an archive of syllabi of terrorism courses. ...More

Arab and Muslim Speaker's Bureau

While learning from Western thinkers about the threat of terrorism and the need to support democracy is critical to fostering understanding about Islamist and other forms of terrorism, exposure to people who have lived with the threat of terrorism every day in countries ruled by dictators, can give students and professors an even deeper understanding of terrorism’s immediate threat. FDD created an Arab and Muslim Speakers Bureau in January 2005 to meet this important need. ...More