VORTEX - Variations of Radicalization, Terrorism and Extremism (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
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VORTEX - Variations of Radicalization, Terrorism and Extremism (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
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 resilience – which constitutes a novel approach.
The conference aims to address this double pressure by inviting contributions from within and outside academia in which examples from a wide range of empirical settings through the entire radicalization cycle will be presented. To assemble such cases to one venue serves the overarching aim to innovate the research area guided by significant research questions such as:
• what stimulates the disassociation of individuals and groups from the socio-political mainstream?
• how are worldviews of radical dissent forged, how are identity and meaning created and disseminated (online and offline)?
• how is violence rationalized and normalized and how have the psychologies of populism and conspiracy in particular propelled radicalization?
On the other side of the radicalization circle, the VORTEX conference will discuss
• potential answers to how social work can prevent radicalization, with a particular focus on
• how biographical and gender-sensitive approaches can be deployed constructively and furthermore
• how we can build resilience to radicalization into violent extremism by taking transnational perspectives into consideration.
An overarching approach is furthermore
• to study the knowledge generated at each point of the cycle: who creates knowledge about radicalization, why and for which purposes – a process by which our entire understanding of what ‘radicalization’ constitutes (and how to counter it) is shaped.
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