Impact and Partnerships
To amplify impact and awareness, the Miller Center leverages expertise from strategic partnerships in law enforcement, counter-terrorism, homeland security, community relations, and academia.
Miller Center for Policing Excellence and Community Resilience Process
- The mission is achieved through individualized site assessments of a given community’s situation and security needs, then adjusting deliverables to meet those needs.
- The work performed is tailored to the needs of the individual communities.
- Site assessments are only performed after an invitation from either a vulnerable community, a government entity, or both.
Deliverables have included:
- Conducting research in the form of extensive interviews
- Developing and implementing training based on that research
- Sharing best practices identified from other sites
- Introducing similarly situated officials from different sites to share common challenges and develop common approaches
- Engaging in follow-up visits and programming
- Exposing select officials and community members to the history of the Holocaust and genocide prevention efforts through strategic partnerships, most notably with the International March of the Living
Impact
Jewish Communities
- Evaluated best security practices for Jewish communities throughout Europe, including Paris, London, Brussels, Copenhagen, Prague, Budapest, Malmo, Stockholm.
- Presented aspects of direct assistance at FBI Headquarters in July 2015 and June 2019, Egmont Institute in Brussels in November 2016, University of Ottowa in October 2018.
Brussels
- Researched police community relations in Brussels in the wake of the attacks on the airport and subway
- Conducted extensive videotaped interviews of youth, business owners, crime prevention officers, and police
- Development and delivery of training to Brussels police. See Philadelphia Inquirer feature
- Delivery of joint training, Molenbeek community and Brussels police
- Worldview: Rutgers team’s antiterror ideas travel far
Paris
- Embedded with Jewish community in Paris during ISIS terror attack on kosher grocery and Charlie Hebdo attack in January 2015.
- Rutgers team experienced first-hand the Paris Jewish community’s security protocols in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.
Poland
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When the government of Poland adopted the Holocaust Speech law that prohibited accusations of complicity, the Miller Center assisted in the preparation and filing of an amicus brief with the Polish Constitutional Tribunal on behalf of the 1939 Club (Jews from Poland who emigrated in the wake of the Nazi invasion).
- Rutgers Center on Community Protection, New Jersey Bar Association to Proceed With Holocaust, Genocide Prevention Program at Auschwitz Despite New Polish Law
Sweden
- Provision of direct aid to Malmo
- Funding for the most basic measures to enhance security of the Jewish Community—identification vests, cameras, other software/equipment.
- Memorandum of Understanding; Meeting in Stockholm with Swedish national police regarding vulnerable populations, associated crime problems
- New Jersey police will help Stockholm stop the shootings
- To Combat Gang Violence in Sweden, Rutgers Fosters Law Enforcement Relationships Spanning the Atlantic
United Kingdom
- Project in a West Midlands municipality in the United Kingdom. Original industrial revolution city (Wedgwood China) with large Brexit population and also a Muslim population led by Islamists.
- Partnership with Staffordshire University.
- Videotaped interviews, training under development, as well as monograph.
- Visit to Brussels with Miller Center workshop veterans
Chicago
- Chicago — advice to Interfaith Council in wake of 1,000 shootings, city upheaval
Whitefish, Montana
- Intervention with Jewish community in the wake of threats from neo-Nazi websites and spokespeople.
- Development and delivery of crisis leadership training to Whitefish city government, police, regional partners and community organizations
- International summit addresses violence against people of faith
Partnerships
International March of the Living (MOTL)
- The International March of the Living is an annual educational program, bringing individuals from around the world to Poland and Israel to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hatred.
- Articles/General Information
- Paul S. Miller Distinguished Lecture Series
- Other Programs
- April 2018: Continuing Legal Education Program on Holocaust and Genocide Prevention
- April 2019: Inaugural Deans Program – Educating Deans on Holocaust and Genocide Prevention
- April 2020: Miller Center Participates in 2020 Virtual March of the Living Ceremony
- November 2020: Miller Center Co-Sponsors Virtual Kristallnacht Commemoration
- April 2021: Medicine and Morality: Lessons from the Holocaust and COVID-19
Network Contagion Research Institute
- The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) is a neutral and independent third party whose mission it is to track, expose, and combat misinformation, deception, manipulation, and hate across social media channels. Acting as a public benefit corporation, NCRI is a not-for-profit organization that seeks to explore safe ways to audit, reveal challenges, devise solutions, and create transparency in partnerships with social media platforms, public safety organizations, and government agencies.
- Reports:
State of New Jersey
Stockton University
- The Miller Center and Stockton University’s programs in human security and genocide prevention have entered into a strategic partnership to pursue complementary projects and joint fund raising, working toward the creation of a joint Center for Human Security promoting worldwide work on issues relating to human security, including the study of and the development of solutions for mass violence and issues facing vulnerable communities, and the fostering of programming in genocide prevention.
- Building Resilience in the New Threat Paradigm: Targeted Violence against People of Faith – event in Atlantic City bringing together perspectives from every site where we have worked.
- International summit addresses violence against people of faith
- Two Honored for Efforts to Combat Faith-Based Terrorism
- Atlantic City summit on hate calls on faith groups to work together
Homeland Security Advisory Council
- HSAC White Paper, Security of faith-based communities. Site visits to Whitefish, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Jackson Mississippi, Louisiana, Minneapolis, NJ, Oak Creek Wisconsin.