Jared Cohen: Don't Pursue Ideas With Obvious Conclusions

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Jared Cohen: Don't Pursue Ideas With Obvious Conclusions


About this presentation


Drawing on his extensive research into radical extremism, Google Ideas Director Jared Cohen launched a new program that will bring together former militants and extremists from around the world to foster an "intellectual collision." Through his narrative, Cohen shares the importance of unstoppable passion, the value of misperceptions, and why we shouldn't mind being called crazy.


About Jared Cohen


Jared Cohen is the Director of Google Ideas and an Adjunct Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2006 to 2010 he served as a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff and a close advisor to both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, where he was not only the youngest member of Policy Planning in history, but also one of the few appointees kept on in both administrations.


He was one of the principal architects of what has become known as “21st century statecraft”, which is a new approach to foreign policy that leverages and harnesses the power of connection technologies and new stakeholders for defense, diplomacy, and development.


Prior to his time in government, Cohen traveled extensively throughout Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Afghanistan, where he spent time interviewing terrorists from groups like Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda to better understand the recruitment process, the nature and root causes of radicalization, and the dynamics between the terrorist groups and the communities they live in.


Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Cohen
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