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This report compares findings on cumulative extremisms across six different countries in the Western Balkans and the MENA region. Focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Serbia, as well as Lebanon and Iraq, it is aimed to create a synthesis of different empirical insights from a set of field-based studies carried out within the context of the PAVE project.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Isak Svensson, Desirée Nilsson

Socio-political community dynamics in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, as well as Iraq, Lebanon, and Tunisia are impacting violent extremism, while at the same time being impacted by violent extremism. In this report, community vulnerability and resilience against violent extremism are explored by assessing the role of the absence or dysfunctions of state and religious authority figures.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Marie Kortam

This report provides a synthesis of studies on vulnerability and resilience of communities to religious and ethno-political radicalisation in the Western Balkans and MENA region. It summarises findings relating to trends in ethno-political and religious extremism and online vs. offline dynamics of radicalisation.

• Year2022

This report summarises the PAVE project’s findings on cumulative extremism in the Western Balkans.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Sead Turčalo, Jelena Brkić-Šmigoc, Mirza Smajić, Veldin Kadić, Muamer Hirkić, Maja Halilovic Pastuovic, Goran Tepšić, Nemanja Džuverović, Gillian Wylie

Interactions between states and religious institutions in the Western Balkans are intricate and can have an impact on fuelling or preventing violent extremism. Two countries in the Western Balkans were the focus of the PAVE project’s research for this report: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Maja Halilovic Pastuovic, Goran Tepšić, Nemanja Džuverović, Sead Turčalo, Jelena Brkić-Šmigoc, Mirza Smajić, Veldin Kadić, Muamer Hirkić, Gillian Wylie

Dieser Artikel stellt zentrale Ergebnisse einer bundesweiten Expert*innenbefragung zum aktuellen Radikalisierungsgeschehen in Deutschland vor. Er ist ein Kapitel im MOTRA-Monitor 2021 und somit Teil einer Reihe von MOTRA-Monitor-Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Radikalisierungsprävention.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Michaela Glaser, Beatrix Austin

This report is the first in the policy insight series on gender-inclusive conflict transformation, which will be published throughout 2022 and 2023. This first issue aims to contextualise and critically review current policies and practices in peace negotiations and post-war transitions, based on testimonies shared by network members during activities conducted since 2018, and complemented by relevant academic references. Through a participatory process of joint analysis, the series will present the experiences, aspirations and lessons learned from women in or associated with RLMs with regard to gender-inclusive approaches to peace negotiations and post-war peacebuilding.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Claudia Cruz Almeida, Véronique Dudouet, Victoria Cochrane-Buchmüller

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase of mass nonviolent movements around the globe, taking the street and the online space to demand radical reforms towards greater democracy, justice, peace or equal rights. External support to nonviolent movements can help prevent violent escalation, mitigate repression, protect civic space, facilitate conflict transformation and foster sustainable peace. In a global context where the shrinking of civic space is coupled with the proliferation of protests, the European Union needs to develop a strategy to deal with nonviolent movements consistently and effectively. This paper explores the role that different EU institutional actors can play in supporting nonviolent movements and puts forward some basic recommendations to develop a more coherent conceptual framework and factor peaceful protests into the EU’s external action.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Sergio Rodríguez Prieto

In diesem umfassenden Bericht zu Friedensbildung im deutschsprachigen Raum, schaffen wir einen Überblick zu aktuellen Entwicklungen, Ansätzen und Chancen der Friedensbildung. Unsere Forschung zeigt, dass Friedensbildung nicht nur hochaktuell ist, sondern gerade im schulischen Kontext an Bedeutung gewinnt. Wir schlussfolgern damit, dass Friedensbildung nur dann weitflächig und nachhaltig einen Unterschied macht, wenn sie strukturell im Bildungssystem verankert ist und sich auf qualifiziertes Lehrpersonal und außerschulische Bildungsakteur*innen stützen kann.

• Year2022
• Author(s)Cora Bieß, Assia Bitzan, Uli Jäger, Anne Kruck

Das Paper setzt Friedensbildung in Bezug zu verschiedenen Nachbardisziplinen, wie der politischen Bildung, dem globalen Lernen, der entwicklungspolitischen Bildung, der Menschrechtsbildung, der Demokratiepädagogik, der Global Citizenship Education, der (inter-)religiösen Bildung, der Umweltbildung und der Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE).

• Year2022
• Author(s)Cora Bieß