Publications
A new study by PREVEX-researcher Simeon Evstatiev just published by Brill in January 2021. The study regards Salafism as a contested concept that stirs up heated debates in Muslim circles as well as among Western Islamicists and social scientists....
January 2021 – More than five years have passed since 1353 men, women, and children travelled from the Western Balkans to Syria and Iraq. Since then, western Balkan governments have taken substantial measures to prosecute those that travelled to join a...
Presented here are three policy briefs summarising the EU and other stakeholders’ prevention strategies towards violent extremism in the Balkans, North Africa and the Sahel, and the Middle East. What are the dominant external approaches and narratives behind the...
Working paper and policy brief on the implementation of the EU's policies toward preventing violent extremism in neighboring regions -the western Balkans and the broader MENA region. ...
The crucial case of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara. In this article, PREVEX-researcher Luca Raineri argues that while jihadism appears to be on the rise in Africa, the explanations of violent extremist groups’ capacity to foment jihadi...
In this paper in the French journal Sécurité Globale, PREVEX researcher Djallil Lounnas, drawing on interviews conducted in June 2019 in Algeria, explores how the AQIM in Algeria reacted to the Hirak and actually did not manage to benefit...
