VORTEX - Variations of Radicalization, Terrorism and Extremism (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

Official website for the conference VORTEX - Variations of Radicalization, Terrorism and Extremism (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)  The VORTEX conference draws from a multi-national, multi-sectoral and inter-disciplinary collaboration. It will address contemporary varieties of radicalisation, terrorism, and extremism as imminent, pressing, and urgent threats to European and global politics.  VORTEX operates from the vantage point that the universal Human Rights regime, the normative foundations of the EU such as laid down in its treaties or the Copenhagen criteria are exposed to considerable pressure – both from increasingly illiberal forms of governance and from the rise and persistence of violent extremism across the political and ideological spectrum. The scientific rationale of VORTEX is centered around a comparative and comprehensive analysis of the full radicalization cycle and its internal and external dynamics from intervention to prevention, re-integration and resi