What is the role of the EU and other external stakeholders in preventing violent extremism in the Western Balkans? Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and Atlantic Initiative (AI) from Sarajevo organized a virtual roundtable discussion to share the...
The role of the EU in preventing violent extremism in the Middle East
What is the role of the EU in the fields of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) in the Middle East? The backdrop of the café debate was provided by the publication of the ‘D7.1 Policy brief summarising the...
Balkan states failing to address the threat from far-right extremism
In this article by Balkan Insight citing one of PREVEX’s latest policy briefs, the authors argue that Balkan governments fail to take the threat from far-right extremism seriously. After the launch of the US “War on Terror”, militant Islamism...
A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad
PREVEX-researcher Erik Skare has recently published the book: A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith Awareness, and Revolution in the Middle East. Find the book HERE Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most important yet least understood...
Salafism as a Contested Concept
A new study by PREVEX-researcher Simeon Evstatiev just published by Brill in January 2021. The study regards Salafism as a contested concept that stirs up heated debates in Muslim circles as well as among Western Islamicists and social scientists....
Counter-terrorism in Bosnia
PREVEX recently published a policy brief on the strategies employed by external stakeholders such as the EU in the Balkans. Balkan Insight has picked up on the lessons learned in the brief and have written a very interesting analysis...