Preventing Violent Extremism, Development and Gender workshop

Thursday 05 May, 1pm-5pm,

In person workshop at the University of Warwick.

In the last few years, the Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) agenda has come to dominate global security agendas and is presented as a shift away from the ‘hard’ security approaches of the ‘war on terror’ towards a ‘softer’ focus on addressing the underlying drivers of violence, such as poverty, unemployment and marginalisation. In this context, PVE frameworks are increasingly used by development actors. Whilst a number of scholars have questioned the effectiveness of PVE in reducing violent extremism, less attention has been given to how the agenda has been taken up by development actors in the Global South and the gendered and racialised consequences of such activities.

This workshop will support work that Nicola Pratt, Juanita Elias and Jennifer Eggert are currently developing in this area. We are keen to hear from scholars whose work explores the impact of PVE frameworks on international development work, with a specific focus on women’s groups and/or faith-based organisations in the Global South and how these initiatives are being reshaped by the new context for development workers in a (post)COVID world.

Confirmed workshop speakers include:

• Sahla Aroussi (University of Leeds)
• Katherine Brown (University of Birmingham)
• Amal Abu-Bakare (University of Liverpool)
• Rizwan Mustafa (Staffordshire University)

• Alice Finden (University of Durham)
• Sherine McCarthy (NatCen)
• Emeka Thaddeus Njoka (University of Birmingham)
• Ahmed Abozaid (St Andrews University)

• Jacqui True (Monash University)

If you would like to attend the workshop, then please email Juanita juanita.elias@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window - spaces at the workshop are limited.