Iraq is an enabling environment, but most people are not radicalised. Why? On 31 October – 2 November 2022, the MERI Forum 2022 was held in Erbil, Iraq. PREVEX kick-started the forum with the panel Prevention of Violent Extremism...
Staying safe by being good? The EU’s normative decline as a security actor in the Middle East
Photo: Son Tung Tran Why does the EU continue to fund and cooperate with authoritarian regimes in the MENA region at the expense of its liberal values? In this article, post-doctoral researcher Erik Skare delves into the European Union’s...
MERI Forum 2022
On 31 October-2 November 2022, the MERI Forum will take place in Erbil, Iraq. The MERI Forum is a high-level policy event that is held annually in Iraq, bringing together local, national and international policymakers, academics, civil society leaders,...
Podcast: Bridging or Dividing People?
13-17 June 2022, NUPI and Atlantic Initiative researchers met for field research in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We visited the cities of Sarajevo, Mostar and Trebinje, and talked to local stakeholders about the issues of radicalisation and violent extremism, as...
PREVEX at Insaniyyat Forum Tunis 2022
Photo: Johanna-Maria Hülzer/Berghof Foundation On 20-24 September 2022, Insaniyyat – the International Forum for Humanities and Social Sciences – took place in Tunis, Tunisia. Bringing together more than 1300 researchers, academics and artists from 35 countries from the Maghreb,...
PREVEX mentioned on ScienceNorway.no
Photo: Getmilitaryphotos / Shutterstock / NTB) The Norwegian award-winning science news magazine, ScienceNorway.no (Forskning.no), recently posted an article about the PREVEX panel at Arendalsuka 2022, Most people are not radicalised. Based on research carried out within the PREVEX universe...