On March 7, 2022, the UNESCO Chair in the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Extremism (UNESCO-PREV) presented to the Political Commission of the International Organization of La Francophonie the results of a study on the prevention of violent extremism in the Francophone space.
Cross-sectional study on prevention and violent extremism in the Francophone space
On March 7, 2022, the UNESCO Chair in the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Extremism (UNESCO-PREV) presented to the Political Commission of the International Organization of La Francophonie the results of a study on the prevention of violent extremism in the Francophone space.
Improving evaluation in the prevention of violent extremism is everyone’s business! An international exploratory study
The UNESCO-PREV Chair publishes an international study on the experiences, challenges and learnings of actors involved in the evaluation of programs and practices in the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism in 9 Western countries.
First annual review of the prevention of violent extremism in the literature is released
We are pleased to present the first annual review of the prevention of violent extremism in literature produced in partnership with the CPRMV.
New report : Constraints and opportunities in evaluating programs for prevention of violent extremism: how the practitioners see it
A new report on practitioners and the evaluation of prevention of violent extremism written by our experts has just been released.
New article about COVID-related discrimination
Discrimination related to COVID is a disturbing reality. In this context, a new article presents correlations between socio-cultural characteristics and the experience of discrimination.
New article about the analysis of ultraviolent terror propaganda in videos produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2015 and 2016
This paper examines aspects of violent, traumatic terrorist video propaganda produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) within the theoretical confines of abjection and the use of utopian/dystopian themes.
New Article on the Link Between the Internet and Violent Extremism
Vivek Venkatesh, one of the UNESCO-PREV Chair’s co-holders, alongside Tiana Gaudette (Simon Fraser University) and Ryan Scrivens (Michigan State University), recently published a new article titled “The Role of the Internet in Facilitating Violent Extremism: Insights from Former Right-Wing Extremists” in Terrorism and Political Violence.
New Article on Futures Thinking in Black Metal
Vivek Venkatesh, co-holder of the UNESCO-PREV Chair, and Jason Wallin have co-authored a new article titled “No satisfaction, no fun, no future: Futures thinking in black metal”.
Published in Metal Music Studies (volume 6, issue 2), this article aims, according to the authors, to think the burgeoning theoretical orientation known as accelerationism alongside black metal, particularly as black metal harnesses accelerationist strategies of negation and opposition on behalf of surveying a world out-of-step with its “normative” conceptualization.
New Article on Violent Extremism and Former Extremists
“Converging Patterns in Pathways in and out of Violent Extremism: Insights from Former Canadian Right-Wing Extremists” is a new article by Maxime Bérubé, Ryan Scrivens, Vivek Venkatesh, and Tiana Gaudette, published in Perspectives on Terrorism (Volume 13, Issue 6).