Photo by Meruyert Gonullu on Pexels. Experts had gloomy predictions about violent Islamist extremism and terrorism in Serbia. Sanjak – the southwestern region in Serbia populated by a Muslim majority – was dubbed a Jihadist hotbed as it was...
Migrants are leaving, but hatred remains: The anti-migrant extreme right in Serbia
Photo: Esthr/CC BY-NC 2.0. Migrants in Serbia are facing a rising security threat from extreme far-right groups. Migrants were not the topic of extreme right-wingers during the migration-management crisis of 2015 and 2016, when about a million refugees passed...
Regional comparisons
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...
Preventing violent extremism: the Balkans
Photo: M1key.me/CC BY 2.0. Presented here are two recent PREVEX deliverables from Work Package 5, a working paper on the drivers of violent extremism in the Western Balkans, and a policy brief summarizing lessons learnt on the EU’s prevention measures...
Roundtable – Religion and Extremism in the Western Balkans
In cooperation with the Centre for the Study of Religions (CSR) at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) Sofia organized a roundtable “Religion and Extremism in the Western Balkans” held on July 7, 2021...
Workshop – Violent Extremism in North Macedonia
On Tuesday, 6 July 2021, the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) Sofia organized a workshop entitled “Violent Extremism in North Macedonia”. The workshop aimed to foster the preparation of the CAS team within PREVEX for the envisaged fieldwork in...