Preventing violent extremism – Strengthening local community resilience As the EU Horizon 2020-funded projects PAVE and PREVEX are coming to a close, researchers from both projects will present key findings, and discuss the joint policy recommendations on the prevention...
From radicalisation to violence: the factors shaping Egyptian radical youths’ decisions whether to take up arms
Photo by Mohamed ELamine Msiouri/Pexels On 3 July 2013, the Egyptian military ended the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule after one year in power. Supporters of the Muslims Brothers rejected this political move and insisted they would remain on the streets...
Regional comparisons
Photo: Kyle Wagaman/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Presented here are two recent PREVEX publications from Work Package 8, a cross-regional background study and a policy brief comparing the EU and other stakeholders’ prevention strategy towards violent extremism in the Balkans and...
Preventing violent extremism: the Middle East
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...
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...
Moderate Islamist Parties in the MENA Region and Europe
In June, Djallil Lounnas (Al Akhawayn University) published a book chapter, entitled “Moderate Islamist Parties in the MENA Region and Europe: Between the Democracy-Human Rights and the Stability-Security Nexus” and was published in the Routledge Handbook of EU-Middle East Relations edited...