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...
PREVEX at the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) in Serbia
On 26-28 October 2021, the 11th Belgrade Security Forum, Testing Humanity, was arranged in Belgrade, Serbia. The topic of the academic part (day 1) was Resilience and the PREVEX project contributed as a strategic partner. The conference opened with...
NATO Workshop – Terrorism and Radicalisation
On 22 September 2021, PREVEX-researcher Luca Raineri from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Italy will intervene as an expert on the Sahel at the NATO Defence College workshop in Rome on “Terrorism and Radicalisation”. Luca Raineri is attached...
The Sahel and us
The shore of North Africa and Europe, the Sahel faces major challenges - demography, migration, climate change - exposing young people to violent extremism. In this article, PREVEX-researcher Abdoul Wahab Cisse describes the multifaceted Sahel region. It is a...
The mystery of resource mobilization by jihadist rebels
Jihadists in the Sahel have opportunistically sought resources - kidnapping, smuggling - but it remains to be seen whether gold mining is a game-changer. In this article, the principal investigator in the PREVEX-project, Morten Bøås, delves into the realm...
Roundtable – Religion and Extremism in the Western Balkans
In cooperation with the Centre for the Study of Religions (CSR) at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) Sofia organized a roundtable “Religion and Extremism in the Western Balkans” held on July 7, 2021...