Webinars
AVERT regularly hosts online webinars featuring leading researchers on violent extremism, terrorism, radicalisation, and countering violent extremism.
2026

AVERT Webinar with Kat Fuller — De/Transition, Disinformation, and Digital Moral Panic: The Politics of Anti-Trans Narratives

AVERT Webinar with Dr Bettina Rottweiler — Introducing the Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) Database

AVERT Webinar with Lydia Khalil and Dr Keiran Hardy — The Sovereign Citizen Movement: Global and Local Threats

AVERT Webinar with Dr Ali Fisher — Jihadism and the Bondi Attack: Disrupting IS and AQ Strategy in 2026
2025

AVERT Webinar with Rahel Kellich — Education in Christian Fundamentalism: Current Developments and Challenges for Civic Education

AVERT Webinar with Dr Nell Bennett — The Bureaucracy of Violence: Organisational Survival and the Challenge of Disengagement

AVERT Webinar with Dr Arie Perliger — Exploring the Religious Dimensions of American Far-Right Extremist Discourse

AVERT Webinar with Dr Emma Belton — Public Release of the Profiles of Individual Radicalisation in Australia (PIRA) Database

AVERT Webinar with Dr Imogen Richards — The Aesthetic Politics of Far-right Environmentalism

Rethinking religion and radicalisation: The role(s) of religion in far-right extremist movements

AVERT Webinar with Dr Julie Chernov Hwang — The Disbanding of Jemaah Islamiyah

AVERT Webinar with Dr Joel Busher — Violence escalation and inhibition during far-right protest waves

AVERT Webinar with Dr Keiran Hardy — How (Not) to Argue with a Sovereign Citizen

AVERT Webinar — Emerging Global Perspectives on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism

AVERT Hybrid Event — 2025 Global Terrorism Index Launch

AVERT Webinar with Dr Rik Peels — Cognitive and Behavioral Radicalization: An Explanatory Split
2024

AVERT Webinar with A/Prof 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: Where have we got to and ways forward

AVERT Webinar with Jade Hutchinson — "The Far-Right Online Ecosystem"

AVERT Webinar with Dr Lauren Moulds and John Young — Rethinking CVE Interventions: a needs based approach

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

AVERT Webinar with Professor Sébastien Brouillette-Alarie — Systematic review of the reliability and validity of risk tools for violent radicalization

AVERT Webinar with Associate Professor David Malet — Ukraine Foreign Fighters: Volunteers on the Right Side or the Far-Right's ISIS?

AVERT Webinar with Emma Belton — Understanding the progression to violence: Background characteristics and risk factors

AVERT Webinar with Dr Marc-André Argentino — QAnon as a New Religious Movement and its Implications for Violent Extremism

AVERT Webinar with Dr Vivian Gerrand — Understanding conspiritual radicalisation and militant wellness movements

AVERT Webinar with Professor Joel Busher — Pathways Towards and Away From Violence During Waves of Far Right Protest

AVERT Webinar with Professor Paul Thomas — The State of British Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE)
2022
AVERT Webinar with Dr Imogen Richards — Far Right Identitarianism and the Great Replacement Conspiracy in Australia
AVERT Webinar with Professor Jan-Willem van Prooijen — Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
AVERT Webinar with Annemarie van de Weert — The Role of Subjectivity in the Early Detection of Violent Extremism Among Youth
AVERT Webinar with Professor Maura Conway — Online Extremism and Terrorism: What to Watch for in 2022
2021
TSAS AVERT — Religion and the Far Right
AVERT Webinar — Rethinking US Efforts on Counterterrorism: Toward a Sustainable Plan 20 Years after 9/11
AVERT Webinar — Afghanistan and the Return of the Taliban
AVERT Webinar — The Gendered Dimensions of Violent Extremism
AVERT Webinar with Dr Amarnath Amarasingam — Examining Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings Two Years On
AVERT Webinar — White Nationalist Extremism: Definitions, Dimensions, and Research Directions