What You Can Expect
- 8+ Planeries (ex: Past to Present, From Iraq and Afghanistan to Palestine and Iran, The Global War on Terror’s Blueprint (domestically and globally), Immigration and the Carceral State)
- 4+ Workshops: (ex: Exposing and Targeting War Profiteers, Journalistic Responsibility: Countering State Propaganda)
- Gallery Exhibit for War on Terror Timeline: Shattering Justice and Remaking the Muslim Threat
- Connecting with Conference Speakers and Participants from Diverse Fields: Scholars, Organizers, Advocates, Survivors, Journalists
Conference Goals
- Interrogate the War on Terror as an enduring system of power that has evolved into a permanent global infrastructure of state violence, shaping law, policy, and public discourse.
- Expose the role of Islamophobia + xenophobia and analyze how racialized narratives have justified surveillance, detention, militarization, and national security policies
- Center the experiences of impacted communities and highlight the human costs of the War on Terror on Muslim and marginalized communities.
- Critically examine legal and political frameworks that has facilitated ongoing state violence under the guise of “counterterrorism.”
- Highlight and learn from resistance movements from grassroots organizing to narrative interventions to policy change.
- Envision abolitionist futures by fostering collective imagination around dismantling this infrastructure and build systems rooted in justice, care, and collective liberation.
25 years of the war on terror 