Social media platform to share global anti-terrorism practices

A social media network was launched here today to encourage the sharing of best practices worldwide to counter terrorism.
The Strategies on Aftercare and Reintegration (SOAR) Network aims to develop a repository of information, resources, ideas and strategies for efforts in terrorist rehabilitation and social integration.
The platform was launched at the East Asia Summit Symposium on Religious Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration, the Channel News Asia reported.
It will be managed by the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies of Singapore.
Apart from the ICPVTR, the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies in Afghanistan and Singapore's Religious Rehabilitation Group are among organisations that will contribute to the repository.

ICPVTR head Rohan Gunaratna said: "It's a network that will bring national, regional and global partners together to understand the threat and to respond."
A Facebook page has already been set up for the network.
The two-day symposium ended today.