David Cortright

Options for cooperative non-military means of countering terrorism and preventing violent extremism.

“Reshaping United Nations Counterterrorism Efforts,” with James Cockayne, Alistair Millar, and Peter Romaniuk, Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation (March 2012).

“Winning Without War: Nonmilitary Strategies for Overcoming Violent Extremism,” Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 21, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 197-225.

Friend, Not Foe: The Role of Civil Society in Preventing Violent Extremism with Alistair Millar, Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf, George A. Lopez, Kristen Wall, Eliot Fackler, and Joshua Weaver, Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law 2 no. 2, (Spring 2012), 238 – 256.

“The Ethics of Drone Warfare,” audio interview on Interfaith Voices, with Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University (26 January 2012).

“License to Kill,” Cato Unbound, (January 2012).

“Does U.S. Drone Use Set a New Precedent for War?” PBS News Hour (10 October 2011)

“The scary prospect of global drone warfare,” Op ed. CNN Opinion (19 October 2011).

“Killing Bin Laden,” video interview on Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, (3 May 2011).

Preface, Countering the Politics of Fear, by Frank van Lierde (The Hague: Cordaid, 2010).

“Opposing Escalation in Afghanistan,” The Nation, (27 August 2009).

“The Right Fight,” Peace Not Terror, edited by Mary Susannah Robbins (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008): 15–19.

“Winning in Afghanistan: How to splinter the Taliban and support Afghans,” Sojourners 38, no. 3 (March 2009): 9.

Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat, co-edited with George A. Lopez (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, Fall 2007).

Recommendations for Improving the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee’s Assessment and Assistance Coordination Function, with Alistair Millar, Jason Ipe, George A. Lopez, Tona Boyd, and Linda M. Gerber, a joint research project of the Counter-Terrorism Evaluation Project of the Fourth Freedom Freedom Forum and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (September 2005).

“Can the UN Battle Terrorism Effectively? “ USA Today Magazine (January 2005): 62-64.

An Action Agenda for Enhancing the United Nations Program on Counter-Terrorism, with Alistair Millar, Linda Gerber, and George A. Lopez, a joint research project of the Fourth Freedom Forum and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (September 2004)

“‘War on Terror’ or Real Security?’“ with George A. Lopez, Sojourners (January 2004): 30-34.

“Proposed: A More Effective and Just Response to Terrorism,” USA Today Magazine (January 2002): 1-3.

“A Stark Vision of the World,” Sojourners (November-December 2001): 25, 27.