Photo: hovic – old aleppo album/CC BY-SA 2.0. Presented here are two recent PREVEX deliverables, a working paper on enabling environments, drivers, and occurrence/non-occurrence of violent extremism in the Middle East, and a policy brief summarizing lessons learnt on the EU’s...
Preventing violent extremism: the Balkans
Photo: M1key.me/CC BY 2.0. Presented here are two recent PREVEX deliverables from Work Package 5, a working paper on the drivers of violent extremism in the Western Balkans, and a policy brief summarizing lessons learnt on the EU’s prevention measures...
Preventing violent extremism: North Africa and the Sahel
Photo: United Nations Photo/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Presented here are two recent deliverables from PREVEX, a working paper on enabling environments, drivers, and occurrence/non-occurrence of violent extremism in North Africa and the Sahel, and a policy brief summarizing lessons learnt...
Field work and Violent Extremism
In October 2021, Morten Bøås (NUPI) published the policy brief “Field Work and Violent Extremism” with the Atlantic Initiative (NGO), addressing some of the most serious challenges associated with conducting field work in environments characterized by violent extremism. There...
Controlling the State in the Political Theory of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad
In November 2021, Erik Skare (Sciences Po, Paris) published the article “Controlling the State in the Political Theory of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad” in the special issue of Religions “Islamist Movements in the Middle East”. As existing scholarship...
The status of (preventing and countering) violent extremism in Albania
January 2021 – More than five years have passed since 1353 men, women, and children travelled from the Western Balkans to Syria and Iraq. Since then, western Balkan governments have taken substantial measures to prosecute those that travelled to join a...