AVERT Research Symposium 2022

SYMPOSIUM RECORDINGS

21 November 2022


Keynote Address - Terrorism in a Time of Ideological Promiscuity: A Catalyst for Re-thinking Approaches to Motivation

Professor John Horgan
Georgia State University


Session 1 - Interventions and the Public Sphere

Building Democratic Resilience: How the Public Sphere Responds to Violent Extremism
Dr Jordan McSwiney (presenting), Associate Professor Selen A. Ercan, Dr Peter Balint and Professor John S. Dryzek

Helping Intimate Bystanders to ‘Act Early’: The UK’s Terrorism Prevention Initiative
Professor Paul Thomas


Session 2 - Interventions: Policy and Practice Challenges

Embracing the Ambiguity in Countering Violent Extremism Policy
Mark Duckworth

The Role of Rehabilitation Under the Terrorism (HRO) Act 2017
Joana Wong


Session 3 - Violent Group Mobilisation: Implications for Interventions

Dogwhistles: The Mobilising Effects of Far-right Violent Subtext on Political Supporters
Dr Kurt Braddock

The Fusion-secure Base Hypothesis: Can Identity Fusion Reduce Intergroup Violence?
Jack Klein (presenting) and Professor Brock Bastian


Session 5 - Interventions and Risk

Disguised Compliance: Implications for CVE Practice and Indicators of Disengagement
Professor Adrian Cherney (presenting) and Dr Daniel Koehler

Justice and Risk Assessment: The Subjectivity of Screening for Early Radicalisation Processes
Annemarie van de Weert



Session 6 - Gender Based Approaches to Intervention

Gendered Radicalisation and “Everyday Practices”: An Analysis of Extreme Right and Islamic State Women-only Forums
Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, Dr Alexandra Phelan (presenting) and Dr Ayse Lokmanoglu

Intersectionality and Rehabilitation: How Gendered, Racial and Religious Assumptions Structure Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Women Returnees
Dr Helen Stenger

Project ADAPT: Analysing Domestic Abuse and the Prevention of Terrorism
Dr Caitlin Clemmow

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Session 7 - Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Interventions

Are We Resilient? How the “Public Health” Model of CVE Leaves us Vulnerable to Violent Extremism
Dr Malcolm Haddon and Associate Professor Julian Droogan (presenting), and Lise Waldek

Contending with “Borderline Content”
Rita Jabri Markwell



Session 8 - Youth-focused Interventions

Case Management Approaches for Youth Offenders Engaged in Extremism: From Early Intervention to Minors Convicted for Terrorism
Steve Barracosa

Muslim Australian Youth and Countering Violent Extremism Strategy: Towards an Effective Community Engagement Model
Lit Col (r) Emad Al-hammadin


Session 9 - Intervention Assessment and Management Approaches

Developing a Needs Assessment Tool Using the Pro-integrated Model to Develop Intervention Targets and Track Change
Dr Kelly Mischel

Working with Those at Risk: Multidisciplinary Interventions in the Swedish Assessment Model to Deal with Concerns for Violent Extremism
Dr Lenita Törning and Edvin Sandström

Religious Assessment and Intervention: The Use of Religious Supports Within the Proactive Integrated Support Model (PRISM) in Corrective Services NSW
Dr Mariam Farida


Session 10 - International Development and the Design of Appropriate Interventions to Violent and Hateful Extremism (Panel)

Critical Issues for Development NGOs Regarding Interventions for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE)
Dr Leanne Kelly

Violent and Hateful Extremism in Mindanao, and its Implications for Conflict Sensitive Development Programming by International NGOs
Professor Anthony Ware

Disengagement, Rehabilitation and Targeted CVE Interventions in Indonesia, and the Implications for the International Development Community
Professor Greg Barton


Session 11 - Southeast Asian Intervention Perspectives

The Role of Formers in CVE Interventions: Lessons from the Indonesian Experience and Beyond
Associate Professor Julie Chernov Hwang

Gender, COVID-19 and P/CVE Strategies in the ASEAN Region: Implications for the WPS Agenda
Dr Alexandra Phelan and Irine Gayatri (presenting), and Professor Jacqui True


Session 12 - Measuring and Evaluating Interventions

To Measure or not to Measure? Practices of and Rationale Behind Impact Assessment in European and Northern American Tertiary Prevention Intervention Programmes
Heidi Maiberg

A New Scale to Measure Allport’s Scale of Prejudice: The Prejudice Motivated Behavioural Intentions (PMBI) Scale
Dr Matteo Vergani (presenting), Dr Thierno Diallo and Professor Kerry O’Brien


Session 13 - Narrative-based Interventions

Narrative Based P/CVE Intervention for Indonesia’s Foreign Domestic Workers
Dr Noor Huda Ismail

Credible Voice: An Inhibitor or Catalyst of Radicalisation? The Case of DeBintal in Indonesia
Unaesah Rahmah and Nawridho A. Dirwan

Drawing to Disrupt: Alternative Narratives to the Manosphere
Dr Vivian Gerrand

Session 14 - Understanding Non-involvement in Terrorist Activity (Panel)

(Non-)involvement in Terrorist Violence: Understanding Variety in Radicalisation Outcomes
Associate Professor Bart Schuurman

Protecting Against Terrorism Involvement: Exploring the Relationships Between Risk and Protective Factors
Assistant Professor Sarah L. Carthy

Understanding the Non-occurrence of Violence in Post-Good Friday Northern Ireland: How the “Internal Brakes” on Violent Escalation Work and Fail
Jennifer Dowling