OUR LATEST NEWS

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.

“Death and Fanatisms”: A Special Issue from Frontières Journal Coordinated by CEFIR’s Team

The latest issue released by Frontières, a scientific journal focused on the study of death, spotlights the Centre d’expertise et de formation sur les intégrismes religieux, les idéologies politiques et la radicalisation (CEFIR) and represents the culmination of research work begun in 2017. Coordinated by Martin Geoffroy, Director of CEFIR, and Ali Dizboni, Co-Researcher (affiliated with the Collège militaire royal de Kingston), this issue is themed Death and Fanatisms, which was also the subject of a conference organized by CEFIR at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit back in November 2017.

The Role of Youth and Women in the Prevention of Radicalization

Officially launched on February 23rd, 2018, the UNESCO-PREV Chair has seen two very busy years in Québec, in Canada and  internationally. In the last twelve months, the Chair’s team aimed to strengthen and structure its network on the national level and, more importantly, on the international level.

A New ISD Report on Extremism and Deradicalization

ISD’s new report titled “An imprecise science: Assessing interventions for the prevention, disengagement and de-radicalisation of left and right-wing extremists” by Jacob Davey, Henry Tuck and Dr Amarnath Amarasingam is now available online. In it, the authors examine the global fight against extremism and online deradicalization and offer an evaluation of the effectiveness and challenges of different approaches.   To read the report, please click here.

New UNESCO-PREV Chair General Coordinator

We are pleased to welcome Sylvana Al Baba Douaihy as the UNESCO-PREV Chair General Coordinator.    Sylvana is an engineer with a master’s degree in Multimedia and Networks from l’Université des pères Antonins in Lebanon (2007). Although initially trained in multimedia engineering, Sylvana has a deep passion for politics, religion and modernity. For this reason, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in contemporary religious studies at Université de Sherbrooke, under the supervision of Professor Sami Aoun. Her thesis focuses on loyalties during the speeches of the Two-Year War in Lebanon from 1975 to 1976. Sylvana is also a teacher in the continuing

New PREV-IMPACT Project Coordinator

The Unesco-PREV Chair is pleased to introduce Lydie Christelle Belporo, PREV-IMPACT Project Coordinator. Lydie holds two master’s degrees in international relations and law from Université de Montréal, and has published a book and numerous articles on the link between multinationals and human rights violations. She has held research and coordination positions with the Réseau des opérations de paix de l’Université de Montréal and the International Bureau for Children’s Rights in Montreal for a project in Burundi. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Criminology at Université de Montréal and her research interests focus on trajectories leading to

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