AVERT Research
Symposium 2022
THE SPACE BETWEEN: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR CVE INTERVENTIONS
21-22 November – Deakin University, Melbourne
AVERT Research Symposium 2022 - The Space Between: New Directions for CVE Interventions
The 2022 AVERT Research Symposium was held on November 21-22 at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Access the Symposium program and recordings of the sessions below.
Interventions in countering violent extremism (CVE) have traditionally been focused on three dimensions: one, building resilience to violent extremism in general society, two, diverting individuals and groups identified as being particularly at risk of radicalisation to violence, and three, disengaging and/or reintegrating those who have already become confirmed violent extremists.
The word intervention comes from the Latin meaning ‘coming in between’. Yet, conceptual understandings of what we are trying to ‘come between’ in relation to violent extremism and those who may be or already have mobilised to violence have been under-examined. While identifying risk has been critical to defining the scope and parameters of intervention design and programming, it is less clear where vulnerability sits in relation to how we think about and apply intervention mechanisms.
The 2022 AVERT Research Symposium will engage with the latest research and practice perspectives on these issues, bringing together Australian and international researchers, practitioners and policymakers at the forefront of the field, presenting the latest research and practitioner evidence and insights.
SYMPOSIUM THEME
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Professor John Horgan
Georgia State University
John Horgan is a Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University’s Department of Psychology where he also directs the Violent Extremism Research Group (VERG). Professor Horgan is one of the world’s leading experts on terrorist psychology. His work is widely published, with books including The Psychology of Terrorism (now in its second edition and published in over a dozen languages worldwide), Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland’s Dissident Terrorists; Walking Away from Terrorism, Leaving Terrorism Behind, and Terrorism Studies: A Reader. He is an Editor of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, Consulting Editor of American Psychologist, Contributing Editor of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and serves on the Editorial Boards of several additional publications including Politics and the Life Sciences, Legal and Criminological Psychology, Journal for Deradicalization, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict and Journal of Strategic Security. He is a member of the Research Working Group of the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. He has held positions at the University of Massachusetts (Lowell), Penn State, University of St. Andrews, and University College, Cork. Professor Horgan’s research has been featured in such venues as The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, CNN, PBS, NPR, Vice News, Rolling Stone Magazine, TIME, Nature, Scientific American and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Professor Horgan’s latest book, Terrorist Minds, will be published by Columbia University Press in 2022.