The UN recently made a new call for states to repatriate their citizens from camps in Syria. About 19,000 children come from Iraq and 8,000 from elsewhere. Western Balkan countries, as many others, have been hesitant to bring all...
European Café Debate: The EU and preventing violent extremism in the Balkans
What is the role of the EU and other external stakeholders in preventing violent extremism in the Balkans? Presented here are initial findings from Albanian speaking cases – Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia – in the European Café Debate...
European Café Debate “External actors’ efforts in preventing violent extremism in the Western Balkans – lessons learned and a look ahead”
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...
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...
World Café: Violent extremism in the Western Balkans
The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (Tirana) and the Group for Legal and Political Studies (Prishtina) are pleased to invite you to a virtual round table discussion “External actors’ efforts in preventing violent...
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...