On Monday 27 June from 15 PM to 17 PM, the Horizon 2020-funded sister projects PREVEX, CONNEKT and PAVE organised a joint event to discuss with EU policy officers on the issues tackled by the projects, including radicalisation, violent extremism, and prevention in the MENA and the Balkan region. The event was held at the European Parliament and hosted by Ernest Urtasun, Member of the European Parliament, and moderated by Roger Albinyana, Managing Director of the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed). PREVEX was represented by PI Professor Morten Bøås (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs).
In his presentation, Bøås drew heavily on the work PREVEX has done in the Sahel and North Africa to explain why most people in some of the most enabling environments in the world are not attracted to violent extremist ideologies, but seek to resist it actively or more subtly.
In addition to Prof. Bøås, participants included Johanna-Maria Hülzer, Junior Project Manager at the Berghof Foundation and member of the PAVE project, and Lurdes Vidal, CONNEKT’s Scientific coordinator and Director of the Arab and Islamic World Department at the IEMed.
Read more from our work with the Sahel and North Africa here.
