Jordan employing ‘institutionalised’ anti-terror approach — Hammad

AMMAN — National anti-radicalisation and counterterrorism efforts have gone beyond a phase-based approach to become more sustainable and institutionalised, Interior Minister Salameh Hammad said Monday.

In remarks to the Jordan News Agency, Petra, Hammad added that programmes and short- and long-term strategies have been put in place to completely eradicate radical ideology in Jordan under Royal directives.

In line with this comprehensive anti-terrorism approach, he explained that the Interior Ministry has opened an anti-radicalism directorate tasked with following up on ministries’ and public agencies’ implementation of the 2014 policy document on combating extremism and violence, Petra said. 

Retired Maj. Gen. Sharif Omari was appointed to head the Interior Ministry’s directorate on combating radicalism and violence, starting from November 1.

Hammad also said the directorate will conduct a periodic review of the policy document to achieve more efficiency in realising its objectives and benefit from the expertise of other countries in the field, according to Petra.

The minister added that the newly established directorate works on enhancing values of social justice, human rights, public freedoms and transparency, stressing that nurturing creativity and promoting dialogue through the educational system are a basic ingredient of the anti-radicalisation approach.