In anticipation of the upcoming White House summit on countering violent extremism (CVE), the Brookings Institution on February 4 convened an expert panel to discuss the efficacy of current and past U.S. approaches to CVE, strategies deployed by other countries, and ideas on improving CVE efforts in the future.

The discussion was moderated by Daniel Byman, senior fellow and research director at the Center for Middle East Policy (CMEP) at Brookings, and featured panelists Bruce Riedel, director of the Brookings Intelligence Project and senior fellow at the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and CMEP; Anastasia Norton, manager at the strategic consulting firm Monitor 360 and former senior analyst in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center; and William McCants, director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings and fellow at CMEP.