The Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism (EUCTER) brings together scholars, experts and practitioners from several European countries to discuss the new challenges posed by the ever-evolving violent extremist threat and analyse the strategies implemented to prevent and counter it.
Violent extremism continues to pose a multifaceted threat to the security of European countries. Against the growing diversification, decentralisation and de-territorialisation of this phenomenon, what policies and strategies are being implemented by decision-makers and practitioners? What role does the European Union play to prevent and counter this threat? Finally, what lessons can be drawn from the increasing securitisation of migration when it comes to policy responses to prevent and counter violent extremism? To answer these questions, the Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism (EUCTER) brings together scholars, experts and practitioners from several European countries to discuss the new challenges posed by the ever-evolving violent extremist threat and analyse the strategies implemented to prevent and counter it.
Pol Morillas, Director, CIDOB
Christian Kaunert, Coordinator of EUCTER, Dublin City University and University of South Wales
Preventing Violent Extremism in the Balkans: Insights from the H2020 CONNEKT Project Lurdes Vidal, Director of the Arab and Islamic Department, European Institute of the Mediterranean
P/CVE and DRR practices in Belgium – Facts, challenges and considerations on Human Rights
Reka Varga, Junior Research Fellow, Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations
Preventing Violent Extremism: What Role for Religious Actors?
Alberto Martín Álvarez, Distinguished Researcher, Department of Public Law of the University of Girona
Does gun control legislation affect terrorism? A cross-sectional analysis using the 2018 Small Arms Survey
Oldrich Bures, Professor of International Political Relations and Head of the Center for Security Studies, Metropolitan University Prague, and Alexander Burilkov, Researcher Leuphana University of Lüneburg (online)
The independent lone actor: threat and response
Uri Ben Yaakov, Senior Researcher, Reichman University
Moderated by: Moussa Bourekba, Researcher, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
The European Union as a Counter Terrorism Global Actor
Christian Kaunert, Coordinator of EUCTER, Dublin City University and University of South Wales, and Sarah Leonard, Professor of International Security & Co-Coordinator of EUCTER, University of the West of England Bristol
Moderated by: Bogdan Stefanachi, Professor, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași
Combating Migrant Smuggling by Sea in Spain: Judicial Use of the Information Obtained from the Victims and Frontex
David Fernández Rojo, Assistant Professor, University of Deusto
The border spectacle: racialised and gendered crisification of human mobility at EU borders
Lorenzo Gabrielli, Senior Researcher at GRITIM, University Pompeu Fabra
Disposable lives: the necropolitics of migration and the securitizing localization of prejudice
Javier Renteria, PhD student, Ramón Llull University
Same Challenge, Different Outcome? The EU’s Response to Coercively Engineered Migration
Leonie Klüver, PhD Candidate, Maastricht University
Moderated by: Valeria Bello, University Blanquerna-URL
The Barcelona attacks in Spanish media: A Case Study from H2020 BRIDGES Project
Moussa Bourekba, Researcher, CIDOB
Conspiracies and Extremism on Social Media
David Tuxworth and Orpen Bella, Researchers at the Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute, Cardiff University
Online Hate Speech and Extremism: Insights from the European Observatory on Online Hate Speech
Olivier Cauberghs, Coordinator LEAs, Textgain
Between fragmentation and integration: The role of the UN in the criminalization of cyberterrorism
Xing Fan, PhD Candidate, Maastricht University
Moderated by: Sara Poli, Professor of European Union Law, University of Pisa
Christian Kaunert, Coordinator of EUCTER, Dublin City University and University of South Wales
