Panel programme
Each symposium consists of three or four papers that are thematically related. The symposium will have a chair and a discussant. Each paper session will take a maximum of 30 minutes (20 minutes presentation by author(s), followed by 10 minutes discussion with the audience). A symposium will be 90 minutes, including 30 minutes for discussion and Q&A.
April 24, 14:30-16:00
1A: Women, gender and violence
Conference room: Wallenberg
Chair: Thomas Johansson
Sara Mahmood: Women’s Roles and Agency in the Islamic State of Iraq & Syria (ISIS): A Discourse Analysis of Dabiq
Anne Birgitta Nilsen: Women at risk on Facebook
Lisa Kaati, Tim Isbister & Katie Cohen: Gender balance in user generated comments posted on immigration critic alternative media
1B: Interfaith, Prevention and Countering Violent Extremism
Conference room: Sydamerika
Chair: Ylva Odenbring
Lenita Törning: The role of interfaith projects in countering radicalisation and extremism in the United Kingdom
Sacharias Wirén: The Army of God – an examination of religiously motivated violence from a psychology of religion perspective
Peter K. Forster: An Applied Approach to Countering Violent Extremism: Case Studies from the Balkans
1C: Media, Cultic Milieus and Radicalization
Conference room: Antarktis
Chair: Göran Larsson
Philip K. Creswell: Feds Everywhere: Risk-Mitigation Strategies among Hacktivists in Anonymous Chat Rooms
Rick Latham Lechowick: The Power of Name-Calling: A Connection Between Terminology and Treatment as Demonstrated in the Islamic State’s Genocide Against the Ezidis of Northern Iraq
Thomas Lindgren: Religious Radicalization in Indonesia
1D: Education and Preventing Violence
Conference room: Europa
Chair: Roger Säljö
Sami Adwan: Empowering Voices of Israeli and Palestinian Teens through Writing
Claudia Lenz & Solveigh Moldrheim: How to recognize and respond to the dimension of prejudice in bullying and offenses in schools
April 24, 16:00-17:30
2A: Nordic Perspectives
Conference room: Sydamerika
Chair: Robin Andersson
Lars Gudmundson: Learning Democracy at Utøya
Nerina Weiss:
Moral outrage and Utopia: the mobilization of pro-Kurdish activists
Sindre Bangstad: Dancing around the golden calf? Countering ‘radicalization’ into violent extremism in Norway 2010-2016.
2B: The Wars in Syria and Iraq
Conference room: Antarktis
Chair: Egdunas Racius
Jan Christoffer Andersen & Sveinung Sandberg: Islamic State Propaganda - Between social movement and subcultural provocation
Marco Nilsson: Radicalization Processes – from Sweden to the Jihadi Groups in Syria
Akhmet Yarlykapov: Networking ISIS in Russia: why it happens and how it works
2C: Media Approaches to the Study of Violent Extremism
Conference room: Wallenberg
Chair: Roger Säljö
Michael Krona: Weaponizing media and sympathizers – ISIS decentralized social media strategies
Gustav Larsson: Framing the Official Propaganda of the Islamic State
Andreas Önnerfors: “One percent for our country“: Studying the dynamics of online and offline-radicalization in the German far-right platform ‘einprozent.de‘
2D: Right Wing Violence
Conference room: Europa
Chair: Thomas Johansson
Tore Bjørgo: Soldiers of Odin: Making the streets safer for our women?
Mattias Gardell: Urban Lone Wolf: A Case Study
Viggo Vestel: Radical right wing anti-Islamism versus radical Islam in a Norwegian context: polarising relations with global roots"
April 25, 10:00-11:30
3A: Nordic Perspectives
Conference room: Europa
Chair: Robin Andersson
Lars Gule: The Prophet’s Ummah – a Norwegian salafi-jihadist group
Liselotte Frisk & Tomas Axelson: An evaluation of the Swedish ”Kunskapshus” [Houses of knowledge] in four Swedish cities; Borlänge, Örebro, Göteborg and Stockholm
Leena Malki & Daniel Sallamaa: Terrorism as a matter of definition: The public debate around ideologically motivated violence in Finland, 1990-2015
3B: Methodological Approaches
Conference room: Wallenberg
Chair: Christer Mattsson
Jonas Svensson: Sacralisation, desecration and violence – exploring the interconnections
Hasnain Govani, Lisa Kaati, Katie Cohen & Tim Isbister: Computerized text analysis of propaganda from the Islamic state
Emma Bäck, Hanna Bäck, Niklas Altermark & Holly Knapton: A throw from the extreme: Political attitude shift following inclusion by a radical group in the Cyberball paradigm
3C: Historical Dimensions
Conference room: Antarktis
Chair: Göran Larsson
Anas Al Khabour: Radicalism and cultural heritage
Eli Göndör: The Influence of Sayyid Qutb on Violent Extremism
Susanne Olsson: Traditionalist strategies of othering in ‘Abbasid Baghdad
3D: Terrorism before Terrorism
Conference room: Sydamerika
Chair: Roger Säljö
Mats Fridlund: Terrorisms before Terrorism - Representing modes & meanings of rebel and regime extremist violence, 1848-1917
Emin Poljarevic: Islamism between Theory and Practice
Therese Sandrup: A shift of focus, or a loss of focus? Exploring counter-radicalization work in a Norwegian police district.
April 25, 14:30-16:00
4A: Nordic Perspectives
Conference room: Europa
Chair: Christer Mattsson
Niklas Altermark, Emma Bäck & Hampus Nilsson: Countering Radicalisation: An overview of Swedish municipalities’ prevention strategies
Anders Bo Christensen & Thea Theresen Nöddegaard: Preventing radicalization in Denmark
Christina Kiernan: Collaborative interventions in Stockholm city aiming to improve protective factors, reduce criminality and, overall, strengthen the resilience against radicalisation.
4B: Global Perspectives
Conference room: Sydamerika
Chair: Thomas Johansson
Marte Nilsen: Monks in Movements: Buddhism and Political Conflicts in Myanmar and Thailand
Denis Brylov: The processes of radicalization in the Ukrainian Muslim community in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine
Ahmad Akhlaq: Embeddedness and Radicalisation of Youth in One Islamist Organisation in Pakistan
4C: Ending Jihadi Conflicts
Conference room: Wallenberg
Chair: Göran Larsson
Isak Svensson & Daniel Finnbogason: How Jihadist States End
Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs: A Matter of Faith? Mediation attempts with Boko Haram in Nigeria
Desirée Nilsson & Isak Svensson: How Do Islamist Conflicts End? Religious claims and civil war outcomes, 1975-2015
4D: Nordic Perspectives
Conference room: Antarktis
Chair: Robin Andersson
Haisam A Rahman: Local prevention of violent extremism in Gothenburg
Tore Bjørgo & Ingivild Magnaes Gjelsvik: Right-Wing Extremists and anti-Islam Activists in Norway: Constraints against Violence
Iram Khawaja: Homegrown religious radicalization and the quest for belonging
April 25, 16:00-17:30
5A: Interventions and Resistance
Conference room: Europa
Chair: Ylva Odenbring
Jari Taponen & Karin Creutz: World politics, otherness and violent extremism
Marius Linge & Sveinung Sandberg: Resistance to jihadism within the young and silent Muslim majority
Line Lerche Mørck, Lone Maj Clausen & Tina Wilchen Christensen: Social practice ethics – researching sensitive mo(ve)ments with “formers”
5B: Eastern perspectives
Conference room: Sydamerika
Chair: Göran Larsson
Egdunas Racius: Virtual absence of political religious radicalism/extremism in the Baltic States: assessment through the demand-supply prism’
Oleg Yarosh: Neo-fundamentalist Islamic discourse in Ukraine and problem of religious extremism
Natalia Kutuzova: Literature of radical Islam in Belarus: in search of religious tradition
5C: Nordic Perspectives
Conference room: Wallenberg
Chair: Christer Mattsson
Hamed El-Said: Who are the Foreign Fighters?
Hans Abrahamsson: In the Great Transformation of our Times: "violent extremism as politics by other means"
Tina Wilchen Christensen: ‘Radicalisation’ as an outcome of a social ‐ political struggle
5D: Comparative Perspectives of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism
Conference room: Antarktis
Chair: Lina Khatib
Intissar Kherijiln & Maher Zoglami: “Understanding the Factors that Attract Tunisian Youth to Violent Extremist Groups
An Individual-Centric Approach”
Kristen Kao & Ellen Lust: “Examining Community Level Drivers of Radicalization Across Contexts in the Middle East”
Diab Badayneh & Khawla Al Hassan: “Radicalizing Syrians Refugees in Jordan: Causes and Consequence”
Fares Braizat & Walid Al Khatib: “Changing Trends in Popular Support for Radical Movements and Youth Radicalization in Jordan”
April 26, 10:00-11:30
6A: Leaving Violence
Conference room: Europa
Chair: Christer Mattsson
Peter Nustad & Ida Cathrine Ruud: Dembra - Democratic preparedness against racism, antisemitism and undemocratic attitudes
Robert Örell: Perspectives from the grey zone. A presentation of Exit Sweden – disengagement, re-integration and building a new social identity
Alida Skiple: The Swedish Tolerance Project in practice and theory
6B: Eastern perspectives
Conference room: Sydamerika
Chair: Göran Larsson
Egdunas Racius: Virtual absence of political religious radicalism/extremism in the Baltic States: assessment through the demand-supply prism’
Oleg Yarosh: Neo-fundamentalist Islamic discourse in Ukraine and problem of religious extremism
Natalia Kutuzova: Literature of radical Islam in Belarus: in search of religious tradition
6C: Name-Calling and Surveillance
Canceled
6D: Measuring Radicalization and Tendencies Towards Violent Extremism
Conference room: Wallenberg
Chair: Lina Khatib
Edgar Jones: Vulnerabilities to Recruitment and Radicalisation: A UK Population study
Oluf Gotsche-Astrup & Lasse Lindekilde: Measuring Violent Extremism and the Extremist Mindset: Result from a Danish Validation Study”
Kristen Kao & Ellen Lust: Measuring Violent Extremism in Surveys: The use of Experimental Techniques to get Sensitive Questions
Lasse Lindekilde: Mitigating impacts of terririst attacks involving weapons and firearms in Europe: factors influencing intention to "run, hide, tell" in the UK and Denmark
Mark Tessler:
April 26, 13:00-14:00
7A: The Swedish National Coordinator Against Violent Extremism
Canceled