Shaping the Media
FDD spokespeople appear in national, international, and Arabic-language media outlets on average seven times a day, seven days a week to deliver powerful, effective messages about the need to fight terrorism and promote democratic values.
Winning the War of Ideas Internationally
Building on our numerous European activities launched in February 2004, FDD's reach is now being expanded in Europe through a partnership with the European Foundation for Democracy, an anti-terrorism, pro-democracy think tank and advocacy group headquartered in Brussels, as well through relationships with similar organizations in Brussels, Paris, London, Berlin and other European capitals.
Training Campus Anti-Terrorism Advocates
At a time when college campuses are under the sway of apologists for terrorism, FDD has trained hundreds of professors and students as pro-democracy, anti-terrorism advocates and activists. A key part of the training is an intensive fellowship program in Israel and Washington, D.C., examining how democracies defend themselves from terrorism. We also run a separate U.S.-based program that trains professors in how to teach about terrorism. As a result of our training, professors have launched new courses on terrorism and students have held hundreds of on-campus events and registered hundreds of media appearances. FDD students have gone on to jobs in the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, the military, the Peace Corps, and the White House and have won Fulbright and Truman scholarships to continue their studies.