What's the relationship between ICLEI's Resilient Cities & the ISD's Strong Cities?
CALL for a DIGG
The Strong Cities Network is a subset of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in London (ISD)
https://www.isdglobal.org/programmes/policy-government-advisory/strong-cities-network/
ISD also combats "extremism" including opposed groups like Q group: see this article by Kelly Weill of the Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-fringe-groups-are-using-qanon-to-amplify-their-wild-messages?source=articles&via=rss, 2019-02-20.
Notice how similar ISD's Strong Cities movement is to ICLEI's resilient cities idea. Both use a local base to promote globalist rule, although Strong Cities emphasizes the targeting of "extremism" in its charter.
Passage below is from https://strongcitiesnetwork.org/en/about-the-scn/frequently-asked-questions/
What is the Strong Cities Network?
The Strong Cities Network is the first ever global network of mayors, policymakers and practitioners united in building social cohesion and resilience to counter violent extremism in all its forms.
We connect cities, towns and regions around the world to share their local best practice on an international scale and collaborate at the subnational level to prevent violent extremism and the conditions in which extremism and radicalisation can take hold in communities.
The Strong Cities Network is made up of member cities in every major global region, each with specific lessons, practice or challenges surrounding violent extremism. We work with mayors and local political leaders and frontline practitioners spanning multiple sectors in each member city. We also work closely with civil society groups and partner organisations in many areas.
We believe that local communities are uniquely placed to counter violent extremism and create stronger and safer cities. We serve as a platform for communities, CVE professionals and local political leaders to connect with their counterparts around the world and learn from the breadth one another’s experience. Our programming spans training, research, project implementation and capacity-building, and learning resources aimed at enriching understanding of – and enabling more effective local responses to – the challenge of violent extremism.
In sourcing and sharing best practice in local CVE, the Strong Cities Network does not aim to create a ‘blueprint’ for local strategies. We are characterised by the diversity of our membership and the various forms of violent extremism present in each city. Our priority is to help cities identify where there is leading local practice, assess what factors can support good practice in a given context, and adapt and improve upon their own strategy design and implementation with a full appreciation of the specificity of one context to another.
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There is moar info on ISD and Strong Cities at QResear.ch, but the best resource is the Information Warfare thread, which was recently deleted from this board by META, but exists in archive form here:
https://archive.fo/E0oJm