This workshop - organised under the auspices of the H2020 DRIVE project - brings together scholars, practitioners, professionals, and community groups who work on understanding radicalisation to address these questions. The DRIVE project specifically focuses on the need to understand the significance of social exclusion in radicalisation, which necessitates carrying out research on hard-to-reach communities and involves asking complex and sensitive questions. In order to ensure that quality data can be generated, free from bias and prejudice, we need to remain understanding of the sensitivities and at the same time introduce initiatives that help generate in-depth, viable, and penetrating insight.
This workshop, open and free to all, explores the challenges of doing research on extremism presented by some of the leading scholars in the field in Europe.
Main speakers at the event are Tahir Abbas (Leiden University), Cathrine Thorleifsson (C-REX), Joel Busher (Coventry University), Jennifer Philippa Eggert (University of Warwick) and Chris Allen (University of Leicester).