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The world is faced with the necessary, if unasked for, task of effectively countering globally coordinated and financed extremist-based terrorism. This lecture presents Professor Fang’s comprehensive structural approach that China is utilizing to counter that threat. Under the title of “The Law of Triangle Motion,” the synergistic interactions between a) government leadership, b) psychologically informed, legislative, educational, economic and defensive countermeasures to extremist ideology, and c) involvement of the people and society, will be described in detail. Complimentary political mechanisms will be discussed.
Note this lecture will be translated live by translator

Qiang Fang is a Professor at Northwest University of Political Science and Law in Xi’an, and one of China’s pioneers in the field of legal (forensic) psychology and a pioneer and leading contributor to Chinese research on extremism and terrorism. He was awarded the titles of “Outstanding Expert” and “Prominent Jurist” along with an “Expert Prize” and an “Allowance for Life” from the State Department of China. He was also a writer for the Chinese Encyclopedia, the Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychology, and the Chinese Contemporary Psychology Textbook. Professor Fang’s works have received various awards including: An Introduction to Legal Psychology, The Shanxi Provincial First Prize for Outstanding achievement in the Philosophical and Social Sciences, and the Shanxi Provincial Education Committee’s Humanity Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award.