In March 2022, Professor and PREVEX-researcher Ulf Engel (University of Leipzig) posted a blog series in which he analyse how African states have responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, African countries’ voting patterns in the UN General Assembly,...
PREVEX-researcher and PI Morten Bøås will participate in a seminar on current dilemmas and challenges in regards to stabilisation initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark. The seminar will take place today, 29 March at 12.30-17.00 at...
The Fragility Forum is a biennial event that brings together policymakers and practitioners from humanitarian, development, peace and security communities; public and private sector; academia; and civil society, exchanging innovative ideas and knowledge to improve development approaches in fragile,...
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...
On 9 December 2021, at Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome, PREVEX-researchers Francesco Strazzari, Luca Raineri (both Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, SSSA, Italy), Abdoul Wahab Cissè (the Alliance for Rebuilding Governance in Africa, ARGA), Morten Bøås, Alessio Illocchi...
