Author, commentator, Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion
Douglas Murray is Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC), a non-partisan think-tank in Westminster, London.
Founded in 2007 to promote human rights, tolerance and greater cohesion among the UK's ethnic and religious communities
and within wider British society, the CSC is the first think-tank in the UK to specialise in studying radicalisation and extremism
within Britain. Murray's writings have appeared across the British and foreign press. A columnist for Standpoint magazine,
he writes for many other publications, including the Spectator, and appears regularly across the British and foreign broadcast
media. In 2005 he published the critically acclaimed Neoconservatism: Why We Need It which Christopher Hitchens praised in the Washington Examiner as ‘a very cool but devastating analysis’ The British historian Andrew Roberts hailed him ‘The right's answer to Michael Moore’ continuing, 'This book shows how to fight and win the War on Terror'.
In 2007 Murray co-authored Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership with
Gen. Dr. Klaus Naumann, Gen. John Shalikashvili, Field Marshal The Lord Inge, Adm. Jacques Lanxade, Gen. Henk van den Breemen and Benjamin Bilski. In 2008 he co-authored Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech within Muslim communities a report for the Centre for Social Cohesion. Murray is a trustee of the European Freedom Fund, a member of the Advisory Board of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and a member of the International Advisory Board for NGO Monitor.
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