Adib Bencherif
Adib Bencherif is an adjunct professor at the School of Applied Politics at the University of Sherbrooke. He teaches courses in applied political science and courses on Africa and the Middle East. He is also a research associate at the Sahel Research Group of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida, at the UNESCO-PREV Chair and at the Francopaix Center of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair at UQÀM. He obtained his PhD at the School of Political Studies of the University of Ottawa and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Sahel Research Group of the University of Florida (2019-2021). Her main research interests focus on security issues, identity issues, and political violence in North Africa and the Sahel. His research focuses on nomadic communities, specifically the Tuareg. An advocate of an applied social science approach, he provides training in political risk analysis and regularly participates in consulting activities to facilitate conflict analysis and resolution and the prevention of radicalization. He has published numerous scientific articles in French and English and co-edited a book on political risk analysis (PUM).
Olivier Champagne-Poirier
Olivier Champagne-Poirier is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Sherbrooke. He co-founded the International Crisis & Risk Communication Association and serves on its board of directors. He is a member of the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire sur les risques et les crises (LIRiC) and the Laboratoire de recherche sur les publics de la culture (LRPC). He also serves on the scientific committees of the journal Climatoscope and the Jasmin Roy Sophie Desmarais Foundation. He specializes in qualitative research methods and is interested in various transdisciplinary issues, ranging from the socio-media impacts of crises (health, industrial, or environmental) to barriers to cultural democratization. His work has been published in collective works and national and international scholarly journals, such as the International Journal of Qualitative Method, Les Cahiers du Journalisme, Infodemic Disorder, Communicating Risk and Safety, Qualitative Health Research, and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Emmanuel Choquette
Emmanuel Choquette is a professor of communication in the Department of Communication at the Université de Sherbrooke. He is also a professor-researcher with the “Groupe de recherche en communication politique” (GRCP), a co-investigator with the “Centre pour l’étude de la citoyenneté démocratique” (CÉCD) and a member of the “Observatoire de l’humour” (OH). His work focuses on political communication, discursive strategies, social cohesion issues and humour studies. He has conducted post-doctoral research at the UNESCO-Prev Chair and the Centre for Research on Social Innovations and Transformations (CRITS) aimed at developing effective communication strategies to combat hate speech. He is also interested in the representation and “negative stereotyping” of cultural and religious minorities in the public space, particularly through humorous discourse.
Pablo Madriaza
Pablo Madriaza is professor of social work at the Université du Québec en Outaouais in Canada. He holds a degree in psychology and a master’s degree in anthropology, both obtained in Chile, as well as a master’s degree and a doctorate in sociology, obtained in France. He has participated in numerous research projects and publications on violence and social conflict, including school violence, delinquency, and social movements. The last period of his career has been devoted to the study of the prevention of violent extremism and hate-motivated acts, particularly from the perspective of intervention practices and program evaluation. He is particularly interested in analyzing such socio-political violence from a critical, decolonial and postcolonial approach.
Simon Thibault
Simon Thibault is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Université de Montréal. He is a researcher with the Groupe de recherche en communication politique (GRCP) and the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CÉRIUM). He is also a member of the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), an organization of hundreds of researchers whose mission is to provide scientific insight for action on threats to the global information environment. His research focuses on issues affecting the practice of journalism and the media in Quebec and Canada. He is also interested in the politicization of the media, as well as online disinformation and manipulation.
