Synchronising findings from both PREVEX-generated and external research outputs, this policy brief presents three key lessons from the analysis of the EU’s measures to prevent violent extremism (PVE) across the MENA, the Maghreb/Sahel and the Balkans region. The first...
Photo: Kyle Wagaman/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Presented here are two recent PREVEX publications from Work Package 8, a cross-regional background study and a policy brief comparing the EU and other stakeholders’ prevention strategy towards violent extremism in the Balkans and...
Photo: hovic – old aleppo album/CC BY-SA 2.0. Presented here are two recent PREVEX deliverables, a working paper on enabling environments, drivers, and occurrence/non-occurrence of violent extremism in the Middle East, and a policy brief summarizing lessons learnt on the EU’s...
Photo: United Nations Photo/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Presented here are two recent deliverables from PREVEX, a working paper on enabling environments, drivers, and occurrence/non-occurrence of violent extremism in North Africa and the Sahel, and a policy brief summarizing lessons learnt...
In October 2021, Morten Bøås (NUPI) published the policy brief “Field Work and Violent Extremism” with the Atlantic Initiative (NGO), addressing some of the most serious challenges associated with conducting field work in environments characterized by violent extremism. There...
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...
