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.
Project CounteR
The UNESCO-PREV Chair is pleased to announce the successful completion of a project by a long-standing partner: Les Militants des Savoirs. The CounteR project consortium has developed a privacy-friendly situational awareness platform designed to predict terrorist and criminal violence, combat radicalization and protect citizens. This innovative tool enables the detection of radical content online. Funded by Horizon Europe – the EU’s flagship research and innovation program – this three-year project has played a crucial role in the fight against radicalization, aimed at ensuring a safer world. CounteR is a revolutionary early warning tool, functional in 12 languages, which actively monitors
4th study day “Accéder à soi. Accéder à l’autre. Diversité des expressions culturelles, médias et migration”
On May 9 and 10, the 4th study day “Accéder à soi. Accéder à l’autre. Diversité des expressions culturelles, médias et migration” will be held. The event is organized by the Chaire UNESCO sur la diversité des expressions culturelles, the Chaire UNESCO pour les droits de l’homme et la démocratie, the Observatoire de la diversité et des droits culturels, the Centre de recherche Cultures-Arts-Société and the Centre d’études sur les médias. UNESCO-PREV Chair co-holder Marie-Eve Carignan will take part in a round table discussion on the participation of migrants in the creation, production and diffusion of cultural expressions and media
Conference at Université Paris-Est Crétail
On May 3, UNESCO-PREV Chair co-holder Marie-Eve Carignan will give a conference at Université Paris-Est Créteil as part of the study day “Penser les rapports au savoir : Démarches critiques et sciences participatives”. Her presentation is entitled “Mieux comprendre le rôle de diverses initiatives d’éducation aux médias et à l’information (ÉMI) au Québec : présentation des projets le Détecteur de rumeurs de l’Agence Science-Presse, #30 secondes avant d’y croire du Centre québécois d’éducation aux médias et à l’information (CQÉMI) et les As de l’information des Coops de l’information”. For further information: click here.
“Relation entre la désinformation et le radicalisme et l’extrémisme politiques” panel
On April 29, Marie-Eve Carignan, David Morin and Vivek Venkatesh, all co-holders of the UNESCO-PREV Chair, will take part in a panel entitled “Relation entre la désinformation et le radicalisme et l’extrémisme politiques” as part of a symposium organized by Concordia University’s Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP). For further information : click here.
Publication of the “Insights into Covid-19 Related News Media Discourse and Public Health Authorities’ Digital Communication”
Marie-Eve Carignan, co-holder of the UNESCO-PREV Chair, and Olivier Champagne-Poirier, associate professor of the UNESCO-PREV Chair, have published a report on strategic communications during COVID-19. In this report, produced for the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, media coverage of the pandemic and communication on the Facebook pages of public health agencies in Belgium, the UK and the USA were analyzed. To read the report, click here.
Harvard Divinity School Conference
UNESCO-PREV Chair postdoctoral researcher Mathieu Colin will present a conference at the Harvard Divinity School, Program for the Evolution of Spirituality, on April 25. His presentation is entitled “Hail Resistance: Spiritual Resistance to Christian Hegemony Within The Satanic Temple“. “Founded in the US by Malcolm Jarry and Lucien Greaves at the end of the year 2012, the Satanic Temple (TST) is both a non-theistic religion, a secularist group and a satanic group fighting for the strict separation of Church and State (Laycock 2020, Introvigne 2016). The Satanic Temple aims at raising the question of the integration of non-Christians as respectful