Events
AVERT regularly hosts events and webinars featuring the latest research on topics related to violent extremism, terrorism, radicalisation and countering violent extremism
Recent events
Emerging Global Perspectives on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism
Online event
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 08:30 - 09:30 am AEDT
Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 10:30 - 11:30 pm CET
The AVERT Research Network held a webinar on Thursday, 20 March 2025. This webinar brought together contributors from Crime & Delinquency's latest issue on terrorism and violent extremism to discuss global P/CVE approaches. The panel, chaired by Dr. Jared Dmello, explored studies from different regions and methods, highlighting the need for continual collaboration in the field.
Dr. Marketa Kocmanová's presentation discussed how the violent extremism can be countered through community ties, ideological approaches, and family attachment. Using ethnographic and netnographic methods, the research highlighted intra-community protective factors and challenges perceptions of marginalized groups as passive in security efforts.
Dr. Jordan McSwiney examined how violent extremism threatens the public sphere, and proposed a democratic resilience framework to strengthen responses, outlining strategies to counter extremism while upholding democratic principles.
Dr. Josep Garcia-Coll's presentation evaluated whether violent extremism prevention programs should be tailored to context or to individual users. His findings suggested that user-tailored approaches that enhance individual experiences are more effective than broad contextual adaptations.
Launch of the 2025 Global Terrorism Index
Institute for Economics and Peace represented by Thomas Morgan.
Hybrid Event
Thursday, 13 March 2025
14.30 - 15.30 AEDT
In-person: Deakin Downtown, Tower 2 level 12/727 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3008
Virtual: Zoom
On 13 March, the AVERT Research Network held a hybrid event for the launch of the 2025 Global Terrorism Index from the Institute of Economics and Peace.
This annual report provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism. Thomas Morgan, Chief Research Officer at the Institute for Economics and Peace will present on the 2025 Index’s key findings, detailing the impact of terrorism across 163 countries and independent territories.
Event recordings
2025
AVERT Webinar with Dr. Rik Peels - Cognitive and Behavioral Radicalization: An Explanatory Split
AVERT Hybrid Event - 2025 Global Terrorism Index Launch
AVERT Webinar - Emerging Global Perspectives on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism
2024
AVERT Webinar with Dr. Mario Peucker - Understanding and Countering the Rise of the Far-Right
AVERT Webinar with Dr Suraj Lakhani - The nexus between videogaming and violent extremism
AVERT Webinar with Dr Aaron Y Zelin - The Evolution of the Islamic State
AVERT Webinar with Dr Julia Ebner - Is There a Language of Terrorists?
AVERT Webinar with Dr Imogen Richards - The Far Right and the Environment in Australia.
AVERT Webinar with Professor John Horgan - Terrorist Minds
AVERT Webinar - Research on Radicalisation Countering Radicalisation: Where have we got to and ways forward.
AVERT Webinar with Jade Hutchinson - “The Far-Right Online Ecosystem”: How a Network of Platforms and Devices Shape Far-Right Violent Extremism
AVERT Webinar with Dr Lauren Moulds and John Young - Rethinking CVE Interventions: a needs based approach to supporting extremists and terrorist offenders
AVERT Webinar with Professor Stuart Macdonald - “Outlinks”: Violent Jihadist Online Propaganda Dissemination Strategies
2023
AVERT Webinar with Professor Daniel Byman - The October 7th Attacks: Hamas Goals, Israeli Response and Global Impacts
December 2023
AVERT Webinar with Professor Sébastien Brouillette-Alarie - Systematic review of the reliability and validity of risk tools for violent radicalization: Is the evidence base solid?
9 November 2023
AVERT Webinar with Associate Professor David Malet - Ukraine Foreign Fighters: Volunteers on the Right Side or the Far-Right’s ISIS?
1 August 2023
AVERT Webinar with Emma Belton - Understanding the progression to violence: Background characteristics and risk factors for radicalisation to violent extremism
July 6, 2023
AVERT Webinar with Dr Marc-André Argentino - QAnon as a New Religious Movement and its Implications for Violent Extremism
MAY 19, 2023
AVERT Webinar with Dr Vivian Gerrand - Understanding conspiritual radicalisation and militant wellness movements: harnessing alternative health capital?
18 October 2023
AVERT Webinar with Professor Joel Busher - Pathways Towards and Away From Violence During Waves of Far Right Protest
April 19, 2023
AVERT Webinar with Professor Paul Thomas - The State of British Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE)
MAR 6, 2023
2022
AVERT Webinar with Dr Imogen Richards - Far Right Identitarianism and the Great Replacement Conspiracy in Australia
AUG 8, 2022
AVERT Webinar with Prof. Dr. Jan-Willem van Prooijen - Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
JUN 20, 2022
AVERT Webinar with Annemarie van de Weert. - The Role of Subjectivity in the Early Detection of Violent Extremism Among Youth
MAY 18, 2022
AVERT Webinar with Professor Maura Conway - Online Extremism and Terrorism: What to Watch for in 2022
APR 14, 2022
2021
TSAS AVERT Religion and the Far Right 2
OCT 25, 2021
AVERT Webinar: Rethinking US Efforts on Counterterrorism: Toward a Sustainable Plan 20 Years after 9/11
SEP 20, 2021
AVERT Webinar - Afghanistan and the Return of the Taliban
SEP , 2021
AVERT Webinar with Associate Professor Tahir Abbas - Islamophobia, Reciprocal Radicalisation and CVE
AUG, 2021
Ryan Scrivens - Online Behaviour of Right Wing Extremists
AUG 5, 2021
AVERT Webinar with Professor Winnifred Louis: When Deradicalisation Goes Wrong?
JUN 21, 2021
Joint AVERT-TSAS Webinar: Religion and the Far Right
JUN 21, 2021
AVERT Webinar: Critical Perspectives on CVE and PVE
MAY 31, 2021
AVERT Speaker Series: Dr Shiri Krebs on “Counterterrorism & Predictive Technologies”
MAR 19, 2021
2020
AVERT International Speaker Series: Maura Conway
DEC 11, 2020
AVERT International Speaker Series: John Horgan
NOV 20, 2020
AVERT International Speaker Series: Dr Haroro J. Ingram and Dr Craig Whiteside
NOV 17, 2020
AVERT Webinar with Dr Helen Young
NOV 8, 2020
AVERT International Speaker Series: John Morrison on “Talking Stagnation”
OCT 20, 2020