On 11 April 2016, the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID) convened the first meeting of its Advisory Forum: a consultative body that can convene up to 100 members from world religions, religious organizations, and cultural institutions. 

During the inaugural meeting in Vienna, the newly appointed Advisory Forum members met with KAICIID’s Board, experts and advisers, as well as Austrian stakeholders and members of the international community, to discuss the challenges of countering and preventing violent extremism, an issue very relevant to the work KAICIID and its partners are doing in places like the Central African Republic and Iraq and Syria.