Vulnerability and Resilience to Violent Extremism

This book examines the actors that shape societal dynamics leading to, or preventing, violent extremism from taking roots in their communities, including state representatives, religious institutions and civil society actors.

Juline Beaujouan is a post-doctoral research fellow with the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep) based at the University of Edinburgh, as well as a senior researcher with Open Think Tank in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Véronique Dudouet is a senior advisor at the Conflict Transformation Research Department at Berghof Foundation. She was also coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 research project PAVE from 2020 to 2023. Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic is a research fellow at the School of Religion at Trinity College Dublin, where she teaches in the areas of sociology of conflict, race, ethnicity, and identity. She is also a radicalisation expert for the Western Balkans as part of the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN). Johanna-Maria Hülzer works in the Conflict Transformation Research Department at the Berghof Foundation in Berlin, where she is part of the coordinating team of the PAVE project on community resilience to violent extremism. Marie Kortam is an associate researcher at the French Institute of the Near-East (IFPO) in Beirut and a member of the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). She is also a research fellow at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH) in Paris, France. Amjed Rasheed is a lecturer of Politics and International Relations of the Middle East at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. He is also a senior researcher at Open Think Tank in Kurdistan, where he specialises in International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Political Islam.

1. Introduction 2. Understanding radicalisation, extremism and resilience: An integrative approach to existing knowledge PART I: STATE ACTORS 3. State, clientelism and extremist groups in Serbia: Between vulnerability and resilience 4. State resilience, communities' vulnerability and violent extremism in Iraq 5. Preventing violent extremism in Lebanon: The role of hybrid state institutions PART II: RELIGIOUS ACTORS 6. Building resilience or increasing vulnerability to extremism in communities? Different perspectives on the role of religious actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina 7. Vulnerability and resilience to violent extremism in Sunni and Maronite political communities in Lebanon 8. Influential actors, religiosity and political power in Tunisia PART III: CIVIL SOCIETY ACTORS 9. Ethnopolitical radicalisation in Kosovo: Media narratives and civil society response 10. Understanding the prevention of radicalisation in North Macedonia: A study of two localities 11. Interactions among government actors and civil society organisations to prevent violent extremism in Lebanon 12. Conclusion