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On Tuesday, 6 July 2021, the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) Sofia organized a workshop entitled “Violent Extremism in North Macedonia”. The workshop aimed to foster the preparation of the CAS team within PREVEX for the envisaged fieldwork in the Western Balkans, particularly in the Republic of North Macedonia. In addition to PREVEX-researchers, a number of external experts held presentations.
During the presentations and the discussions, a set of interrelated issues were debated, including the link between ideology and local context in shaping enabling environments for violent extremism; the contextually informed understanding of violent extremism; as well as the factors for its occurrence and non-occurrence in the region. A particular emphasis was put on the role of the state and the applicability of the concept of fragile states in the case of North Macedonia.
Programme
- Chair: Prof. Dr. Simeon Evstatiev – Sofia University, PREVEX
16:30–16:45 OPENING
- Prof. Dr. Diana Mishkova – CAS Director, PREVEX
16:45–17:30 IDEOLOGY AND CONTEXT: “OCCURRENCE AND NON-OCCURRENCE” OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM IN NORTH MACEDONIA
- Ideology and Drivers, Dr. Stoyan Doklev – Sofia University, PREVEX
- Context and Fieldwork, Dr. Evlogy Stanchev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, PREVEX
- Discussing and Nuancing the Questionnaires
17:30–18:00 EXTREMISM IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE MEDIA OF NORTH MACEDONIA
- Nikolay Krastev, journalist – presentation
18:00–18:45 VIOLENT EXTREMISM AND RADICALISM IN NORTH MACEDONIA: DRIVERS, CONTEXTS AND ENABLING ENVIRONMENTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PUBLIC POLICIES AND STRATEGIES
- Prof. Dr. Marjan Gjurovski, St. Kliment Ohridski University, Republic of North Macedonia – main presentation
18:45–19:15 DISCUSSION
