Bjørn Magnus Jacobsen Ihler (born June 30, 1991) is a Norwegian peace activist and public speaker who chairs of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism's Independent Advisory Committee.[1] He is a co-founder of the Khalifa Ihler Institute[2] and was a founding member of the project Extremely together project [3] through the
Kofi Annan Foundation.[4]
His work in countering violent extremism has led him to talk to many former members of extremist and radical groups. A BBC profile of his work has noted that "He claims the unusual and unenviable record of meeting more reformed extremists than anyone else."[11]
Ihler has said that he believes
Anders Behring Breivik should be treated humanely by the Norwegian prison system.[12] He told BBC Radio 4 that "Breivik denied us all humanity and all human rights. But that does not ever make it right for us to deny him the same thing. If we do that, we follow the same logic as him I think.”[13]