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.
“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
11e Atelier international du GRCP
The 11th Atelier international du GRCP will be held on April 18 and 19. Two members of the UNESCO-PREV Chair are on the organizing committee: Marie Eve-Carignan, co-titular, and Pr. Emmanuel Choquette, associate professor, accompanied by Pr. Carol-Ann Rouillard, professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Sherbrooke. One of the event’s presenters, Sylvain Delouvée, is a collaborator with the UNESCO-PREV Chair. His presentation is entitled: “Rumeurs(s) et réalité(s): une analyse (socio-)cognitive des dynamiques de la désinformation politique”. For further information, click here: https://www.grcp.ulaval.ca/evenements/atelier-international-2024-11e-edition
Study day on the transdisciplinary challenges of climate information and misinformation
On April 9, a study day will be held to take a transdisciplinary and multifaceted look at climate information and misinformation. “Climate information and misinformation are cross-cutting phenomena that affect the disciplines within which climate change is studied. In order to fully understand the consequences of these phenomena, it is important to encourage dialogue between the various disciplines and stakeholders. Thanks to the support of the federating research themes “climate change and the environment” and “living together”, the UNESCO-Prev Chair and Climatoscope, this is exactly what is proposed by the present study day.” The following are invited to take
Semaine de la citoyenneté – “Rebâtir nos sociétés”
UNESCO-PREV Chair co-holder Pr. Marie-Eve Carignan will give a lecture as part of the 12th edition of Semaine de la citoyenneté, entitled “Rebâtir nos sociétés”. “While the problem of misinformation is not new, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the dangers of this phenomenon. Canada is facing an “infodemia” that is leading some people to adopt more extremist positions, increasing social polarization and potentially compromising public safety. This adherence to misinformation is strongly linked to a distrust of government, the media and law enforcement agencies. How, in this context, can we disentangle the true from the false? What is conspiratorial thinking?