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Find the latest news related to the activities led by the UNESCO Chair in Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Extremism and its network, including notable interventions of our experts in the media, in this section.
Marie-Eve Carignan at the CÉRIUM’s summer school

Marie-Eve Carignan, co-holder of the UNESCO-PREV Chair, will be taking part in the CÉRIUM – Laboratoire de politiques publiques du CPDS et de la Maison API : Trouver des solutions pour lutter contre l’isolement social! This Thursday, May 29, she will be taking part in this school, which aims to gain a better understanding of public policy development through a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. Taking place from Monday May 26 to Saturday May 31, this event is organized in collaboration with the Centre de recherche sur les politiques et le développement social (CPDS) and UdeM’s Maison des affaires publiques et
Participation to the Université de Sherbrooke’s “Analyse des risques géopolitiques et transversaux” summer school

From Monday May 26 to Friday May 30, several of our members are taking part in the “Analyse des risques géopolitiques et transversaux” summer school. On Monday May 26, postdoctoral researcher Mathieu Colin is presenting “L’analyse du risque terroriste à l’évaluation des risques de radicalisation”, alongside Ghayda Hassan. On Tuesday, May 27, Sylvana Al-Baba Douaihy, General Coordinator, will give a talk entitled “Les guerres hybrides et le risque informationnel : le cas de la guerre russo-ukrainienne”. On Wednesday, May 28, co-holder David Morin will take part in the colloquium on North American cross-border risks. He will lead a round table
Members of the UNESCO-PREV Chair at the 2025 Congresses of the Canadian Communication Association, the Canadian Political Science Association and the Canadian Philosophical Association in Toronto!

Members of the UNESCO-PREV Chair at the 2025 Congresses of the Canadian Communication Association, the Canadian Political Science Association and the Canadian Philosophical Association in Toronto! Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference On Tuesday, June 3, Sylvain Bédard, Scientific Coordinator of the UNESCO-PREV Chair, will present on a panel entitled “Identity, mistrust and political radicalization”, during which he will present “From mistrust to mistrust, the ordinary sources of extremism in Canada”. 2025 Congress of the Canadian Association for Communication On Wednesday, June 4, Sylvain Bédard, co-presenter Marie-Eve Carignan and research assistant Perrine Hely will present “Climatoscepticisme et réseaux sociaux :
Canadian Political Science Association 2025 Conference in Toronto

On Tuesday, June 3, Sylvain Bédard, Scientific Coordinator of the UNESCO-PREV Chair, will be at George Brown College for the Canadian Political Science Association‘s annual conference on “The Politics of Belonging: Conflict, Community, Curriculum”. He will take part in a panel entitled “Identity, mistrust and political radicalization”, during which he will present “From mistrust to mistrust, the ordinary sources of extremism in Canada”. On the same day, he will chair the panel on “Health, social policy and political cleavages”. For further information: https://cpsaconference.ca.
The Chair at the 62th congress of the Société québécoise de science politique

From May 21 to 23, 2025, several members of the Chair will be taking part in the 62nd Société québécoise de science politique congress. Marie-Eve Carignan, Ph.D. will take part in the opening conference: “L’ébranlement des démocraties libérales : quand la fin de l’histoire n’est pas celle annoncée”. Our members will also be involved in a number of workshops and round tables throughout the conference: Workshop 4 – Regards croisés sur la santé démocratique: élections, participation citoyenne et légitimité politique Panel 2: La communication politique en contexte électoral 📌 DANG Thi Huong, Perrine Hely, Simon Thibault Marie-Eve Carignan, Ph.D. and
Marie-Eve Carignan at the Festival international de journalisme de Carleton-sur-Mer

📌 Marie-Eve Carignan, Ph.D., co-holder of the UNESCO-PREV Chair, will be taking part in the FIJC Festival du journalisme de Carleton-sur-Mer from May 15 to 19. 🔎 Here are the panels she will be taking part in : Saturday, May 17 – « Informer à l’heure de la post-vérité » from 10 a.m. – « Populisme : de Berlusconi à Trump » from 11:30 a.m. Sunday, May 18 – « Peut-on encore sauver la vérité? » from 11:30 a.m. – « Être informé, c’est être libre : Est-ce toujours le cas? » from 3pm. – « La menace des oligarques