The Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI), in coordination with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Center for Civil‐Military Relations (CCMR), organized a three day Conference on “Countering Violent Extremism through Strategic Communications,” on 16‐18 January 2012 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Major General (Retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, Security Affairs Adviser to Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh, inaugurated the Conference on 16 January 2012. The Conference brought together 47 participants from Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Participants included civilian government officials, senior military officials and officials of law enforcement agencies.