Violent Extremism and Moms, What Customers Want, Movies

Violent Extremism and Moms, What Customers Want, Movies

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 5, Episode 288

  • Dec 2, 2016 5:00 pm
  • 2:25:05 mins

The Most Overlooked Resource in Fighting Violent Extremism? Moms (20:04) Daniel Koehler is the director of the German Institute on Radicalization and Deradicalization Studies. He studied religious studies, political sciences and economics at Princeton University and Free University Berlin. He has since conducted risk assessment and deradicalization evaluations of terrorist offenders in prison and trained various U.S. government agencies. He is also a fellow at George Washington University's Program on Extremism. According to experts on violent extremism, Islamic State recruitment in the United States is reaching record levels. ISIS recruiting efforts have shifted their focus to young adults and even young teenagers. Daniel Koehler believes mothers are an important resource in combating violent extremism.   Dr. Matt Tips: How to Make a Citizen's Arrest (1:01:24) The world can be a dangerous place. If the situation presents  itself making a citizen's arrest can be a complicated thing. Our correspondent Harlin J. Hickum shares some tips. What do Customers Want? (1:07:06) Denise Dahlhoff is the research director of the Wharton School’s Baker Retailing Center where she is responsible for the center’s knowledge creation and dissemination initiatives. Her background is a mix of qualitative and quantitative market and academic research, consulting, publishing, and teaching. One of the more popular topics that we talk about in today’s world is the difference we see between different generations. Between baby boomers, Gen X, and millennials we find big differences, but a few similarities. One similarity that each generation has is the love of holiday season shopping and the spirit of gift giving around Christmas. Denise Dahlhoff discusses her research on how different generations shop differently and how that will apply this holiday season.  Parent Previews - Moana and Loving (1:54:55) Rod Gustafson from Parent Previews joins the show to review the new movies Moana and Loving