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As part of the 40th session of the UNESCO General Conference, UNESCO-PREV co-Chair, Vivek Venkatesh, will be participating in Challenges and Solutions in the Prevention of Violent Extremism Through Education: Promoting Evidence-Based Activities for Youth Resilience and Engagement. Organized and moderated by UNESCO, this side event will feature interactive debate among experts and practitioners around ‘effective’ PVE-E activities. For more information, please click here.

The UNESCO Chair in Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism is leading PREV-IMPACT, a new research project which aims to develop evaluation models for primary, secondary and tertiary PVE programs adapted to the Canadian context through action research.

The UNESCO-PREV Chair Annual Reports provide a comprehensive overview of its organizational structure; statistics; actions, activities and impacts; financial partnerships and grants. The 2018 Annual Report is now available and includes structure-related actions, such as team member recruitment, website creation, the gradual implementation of internal structures, the initial phase toward a global mapping of expertise and bank of specialists set to expand over the coming years. It also contains several major research projects, scientific publications, and numerous training, awareness and knowledge transfer activities. To view the 2018 Annual Report, please click here.

 The City of Bogotá, Colombia and its Chamber of Commerce invited Pablo Madriaza, the General Coordinator of the UNESCO-PREV Chair, to lead a two-day workshop on the prevention of radicalization leading to violence in schools from August 26 to 29, 2019. Representatives of various public sector institutions attended the event whose aim was to develop a preventive protocol against violent radicalization adapted to secondary schools. Much of Colombia’s recent history has been marked by the presence of extreme left and right-wing armed groups, some of which are recognized by Public Safety Canada as terrorist groups, including the FARC [Fuerzas Armadas

The UNESCO Chair in Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Extremism (PREV) is looking for a GENERAL COORDINATOR (RESEARCH PROFESSIONAL). To learn more about the position and the application process, please click here. Please apply by Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 5 pm the latest.

Vivek Venkatesh, Director, Project SOMEONE, and Éric Bellavance, historian, biblical scholar and course lecturer at Université de Montréal, McGill University and Concordia University, recently edited Praising and/or Cursing God Through Music, a special issue of Théologiques, a journal from the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences at Université de Montréal. Fifteen local, national and international researchers contributed to this publication that explores this subject from the point of view of a variety of academic disciplines.  The issue is now available online here.