VORTEX — Coping with Varieties of Radicalization into Terrorism and Extremism

Results in brief

Coping with Varieties of Radicalization into Terrorism and Extremism

VORTEX (Coping with Varieties of Radicalisation into Terrorism and Extremism) represents an innovative and integrative doctoral network of practitioners and academics for training of doctoral candidates in radicalization studies. The understanding of radicalization is currently trapped between securitisational approaches and socio-cultural contextual explanations, influencing political agencies, practitioners, and scholars alike. One approach focuses on immediate and short-term security needs of European societies. Another approach stresses long-term structural factors, such as socio-economic marginalization, as a breeding ground for extremism, radicalization, and extremist world views and cognitive mindsets. This DN aims not only to identify a theoretical a methodological gap between the two approaches, but also to develop new evidence-based innovative strategies to countering and preventing ideological and behavioural radicalization. VORTEX will provide an integrated and thus meaningful research programme not only but primarily for doctoral candidates to pursue their research in a fruitful and meaningful dialogue among relevant disciplines and in a dense web of supervision, training and interaction to jump start both successful and relevant careers. Bringing together a network of academic and non-academic participating organizations from 14 countries on three continents, dealing with both religious and secular radicalisation, this DN will explore and compare different varieties of radicalization in several empirical settings. Practice-based research with associated partners, connecting doctoral candidates to future job markets and audiences, will offer the opportunity to investigate radicalisations on several levels, ranging from local to global and from cognitive to behavioural. We propose an advanced learning program, combining theoretical and instrumental knowledge at transnational and interdisciplinary levels.

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Project objective

VORTEX (Coping with Varieties of Radicalisation into Terrorism and Extremism) represents an innovative and integrative doctoral network of practitioners and academics for training of doctoral candidates in radicalization studies. The understanding of radicalization is currently trapped between securitisational approaches and socio-cultural contextual explanations, influencing political agencies, practitioners, and scholars alike. One approach focuses on immediate and short-term security needs of European societies. Another approach stresses long-term structural factors, such as socio-economic marginalization, as a breeding ground for extremism, radicalization, and extremist world views and cognitive mindsets. This DN aims not only to identify a theoretical a methodological gap between the two approaches, but also to develop new evidence-based innovative strategies to countering and preventing ideological and behavioural radicalization. VORTEX will provide an integrated and thus meaningful research programme not only but primarily for doctoral candidates to pursue their research in a fruitful and meaningful dialogue among relevant disciplines and in a dense web of supervision, training and interaction to jump start both successful and relevant careers. Bringing together a network of academic and non-academic participating organizations from 14 countries on three continents, dealing with both religious and secular radicalisation, this DN will explore and compare different varieties of radicalization in several empirical settings. Practice-based research with associated partners, connecting doctoral candidates to future job markets and audiences, will offer the opportunity to investigate radicalisations on several levels, ranging from local to global and from cognitive to behavioural. We propose an advanced learning program, combining theoretical and instrumental knowledge at transnational and interdisciplinary levels.

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Participants

MALMO UNIVERSITET · MALMOECoordinatorSweden
Department of Prisons and Probation Service · Kbenhavn KDenmark
FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER · TrentoItaly
GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY · YogyakartaIndonesia
HELSINGIN DIAKONISSALAITOKSEN SAATIO SR · HelsinkiFinland
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · HelsinkiFinland
INSTITUTUL ROMAN PENTRU ACTIUNE, INSTRUIRE SI CERCETARE IN DOMENIUL PACII - PEACE ACTION, TRAINING & RESEARCH INST OF ROMANIA · CLUJ NAPOCARomania
Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft · JenaGermany
Kommon Ground · MalmöSweden
Mindanao State University -Iligan Institute of Tecnhology · Iiligan CityPhilippines
ORGANE DE COORDINATION POUR L'ANALYSE DE LA MENACE-COÖRDINATIEORGAAN VOOR DE DREIGINGSANALYSE-OCAM-OCAD · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
OSLO KOMMUNE · OsloNorway
PHILIPPS UNIVERSITAET MARBURG · MarburgGermany
PRIF - LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FUR FRIEDENS- UND KONFLIKTFORSCHUNG · FRANKFURT AM MAINGermany
STICHTING INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR COUNTER-TERRORISM · Den HaagNetherlands
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME · NEW YORKUnited States
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO · TorinoItaly
UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI · Cluj-NapocaRomania
UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT · UtrechtNetherlands
UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · OsloNorway
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA · OrlandoUnited States
VIOLENCE PREVENTION NETWORK GGMBH · BerlinGermany

VORTEX · Coping with Varieties of Radicalization into Terrorism and Extremism

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Coping with Varieties of Radicalization into Terrorism and Extremism

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