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Amir Dziri: “Over the past decade, the Swiss Center for Islam and Society has strengthened its academic standing”

Fribourg, Switzerland. To mark the Swiss Center for Islam and Society’s tenth anniversary, its co-director Amir Dziri gave an interview to Pluriel.

to 28/11/22 to 30/11/22

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Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam: for a France-Quebec referential | EJC 2022

The 34th Entretiens Jacques Cartier will take place in Quebec from 28 to 30 November 2022. A group of Canadian and French researchers will hold a one-day conference on the theme of radicalisation studies. A...

14/10/21

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Conference / Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam

EPISTEMOLOGICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL APPROACHES AND ISSUES Initiated within the framework of the Entretiens Jacques Cartier in 2019, a collaboration between the Centre for the Study of Cultures and R...

to 14/04/21 to 26/05/21

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Webinars on the prevention of religious radicalisation

The Research Centre “Religions, Rights and Economy in the Mediterranean Area” (REDESM), based at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria in cooperation with the PriMED project to prevent ...

17/03/21

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Trying jihadism in France: perspectives on the trials of jihadist networks since 2015

Online lecture organised by the Swiss Centre Islam and Society on the occasion of the presentation of a new training programme entitled “Preventing Extremisms. Ideologies, Religions and Violence(s)...

For a preventive Islamic de-radicalization. The Re-Configuration of the Humanities within an inter-religious approach. (Milan)

Research group held by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. The return to the humanities is not only necessary, but crucial for the promotion of a de-radicalising approach to both societi...

HIWAR – Building bridges with Islam (Madrid)

Project HIWAR was conceived on the grounds of a group of researchers from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas that had the committed dedication to converse, get closer to and build bridges with Islam. Makin...

Epistemological and methodological issues in studies on violence in the name of Islam (Montreal)

This group aims to provide food for thought on the following questions: Are the available conceptual and epistemological methods and tools adequate enough to decipher the specific and complex discourses, pr...

Dynamics of Islamic radicalization in Europe: prevention and educational policies (Closed)

Since the “Arab Springs” breakout in 2011, Islamist radicalization in Europe progressively grew as ISIS spread violence and chaos in Iraq, Syria and Libya. The so-called “Islamic State” brought a new vision...

publication

Sayyid Qutb. Architect of Radical Islamism

• Mounia Ait Kabboura

publication

Salafist Movements in Europe: Between Local and Transnational Mobilizations

• Mohamed-Ali Adraoui

videos

Radical evil and the Canadian multiculturalist otherness

• Mounia Ait Kabboura

The “radical evil” that tore Europe apart in the 20th century was totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt). Today, this evil has been reincarnated into a barbaric radicalisation that undermines societies...

publication

Thinking Jihadist Radicalisation: Actors, Theories, Transformations

• Elyamine Settoul

videos

Between Standardization And Otherness: Being A Muslim In The In The French Armed Forces

• Elyamine Settoul

Already present since the colonisation process, the question of Islam within the French army has reappeared strongly with the settling down of the populations resulting from the great waves of industrial im...

article

Religious radicalization. Process of a controversial concept

• Mohamed-Ali Mostfa

Introduction : I would like to seize the opportunity of my first participation to the Mediterranean website to raise the issue of radicalisation as a concept, which has permeated the political and media dis...

videos

Methodology for analysing radicalisation discourses and counter-discourses

• Bénédicte Du Chaffaut

Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference « Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam, Epistemological, methodological and ethical approaches an...

videos

The radical discourse and civilisational stake

• Mohamed-Ali Mostfa

Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference « Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam, Epistemological, methodological and ethical approaches an...

article

Innovative social work practices by Islamic grassroots organizations in Switzerland

• Baptiste Brodard

In Switzerland, specific issues related to Muslims have recently emerged in public debates. In addition to the question of radicalization, Muslim migrant populations are affected by social problems such as ...

publication

A Response to Public Discourse? Intracultural Islamic Social Work in a Plural Society

• Hansjörg Schmid
• Baptiste Brodard

publication

Muslim students at school

• Antonio Cuciniello

article

Studies of radicalization leading to violence in the name of Islam: mapping theoretical actors to better understand epistemological and ethical issues

• Wael Saleh

Original title : “Les études de la radicalisation menant à la violence au nom de l’islam : cartographier les acteurs théoriques pour mieux comprendre les enjeux épistémologiques et éthiques” Abs...

formations

Certificate of advanced studies (CAS) Preventing Extremism. Ideologies, religions and violence(s)

Target group People working in education, prisons, security, social work and anyone interested in becoming a contact person for issues related to extremism in their professional environment. Content The phe...