This US State Department-sponsored International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) is for fifteen religious and community advocates from Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, exploring ways to combat terrorism and the terrorist networks that are taking root. And provide participants an opportunity to learn about strategic planning and explore government and civil society organizations in the United States that seek to tackle similar issues.

The delegations program from Detroit, MI will provide participants with a deeper understanding of community‑based efforts designed to build strong community resistance to violent extremism and promote tolerance and how different sectors of American society work together to resist violent extremism.