Schedule

Thursday, June 20

09.00 - 17.00 Registration, Eilert Sundt Building (ESH)

10.00-10.15 Welcome, Tore Bjørgo, Director of C-REX, Auditorium 1, ESH

10.15 – 11.00 Keynote lecture: Grievance Fuelled Violence: The Intersection of Mental Health, Radicalism, and Targeted Violence by Emily Corner, Auditorium 1, ESH

Break

11.15 – 12.45 Session 1

• Terrorism in movies, literature, and the media, Auditorium 2, ESH
• Jihadi ideology and culture, Auditorium 3, ESH
• Perspectives on practitioners and agencies in counter-terrorism, Auditorium 4, ESH
• Approaches to data collection and data sources in terrorism research, Auditorium 7, ESH

12.45 – 13.45 Lunch in the foyer of Eilert Sundt Building (ESH)

13.45 – 15.15 Session 2

• Terrorist imagery and propaganda, Auditorium 2, ESH   
• Impacts of Prevent strategies on populations, Auditorium 3, ESH 
• Disengagement, deradicalisation, and recidivism, Auditorium 4, ESH
• New insights on Boko Haram, Auditorium 6, ESH
• Understanding Risk, Auditorium 7, ESH

Break

15.30 – 17.00 Session 3

• Attitudinal effects of terrorism, Auditorium 2, ESH
• Evaluating efforts to counter violent extremism, Auditorium 3, ESH
• Jihadism and counterterrorism in sub-Saharan Africa, Auditorium 4, ESH
• Computational and formal methods in terrorism research, Auditorium 6, ESH
• Documenting the Islamic State, Auditorium 7, ESH

17.15 – 18.30 Reception

Friday, June 21

09.00 – 10.30 Session 4

• Right-wing extremism: Engagement and disengagement, emergence and decline, Auditorium 2, ESH
• Jihadism trends in South-East Asia, Auditorium 3, ESH
• Prevention in education, Auditorium 4, ESH
• Understanding Islamic State in the digital space, Auditorium 6, ESH
• Terrorism Studies and Primary Source Terabytes: Evolution, Challenges, and Opportunities, Auditorium 7, ESH

Break

10.45 – 11.45 Roundtables

• A Minor threat? Discussion on the future of the children of jihadi fighters, Auditorium 1, ESH

• Roundtable on online data, Auditorium 7, ESH

11.45 – 12.45 Lunch in the foyer of Eilert Sundt Building (ESH)

12.45 – 14.15 Session 5

• Right-wing extremism: Ideology, online activism, and violence, Auditorium 2, ESH

• Gender perspectives on terrorism, Auditorium 3, ESH

• Emergence of extremism, Auditorium 4, ESH

• Theories and concepts in terrorism studies, Auditorium 6, ESH

• Qualitative data in terrorism research, Auditorium 7, ESH

Break

14.30 – 16.00 Session 6

• Organisational perspectives on terrorism, Auditorium 2, ESH
• Crime and terrorism, Auditorium 3, ESH
• Counter-narratives, media and strategic communication, Auditorium 4, ESH
• Radicalisation and violent extremism in national and local settings, Auditorium 6, ESH
• Incident data in terrorism research, Auditorium 7, ESH

16.15– 17.00 Keynote lecture: Foiled plots: the untapped data resource in terrorism studies by Petter Nesser, Auditorium 1, ESH

17.00 Closing remarks, Organization Committee

Saturday, June 22

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