Vulnerability and Resilience to Violent Extremism An Actor-Centric Approach

1. Introduction

Juline Beaujouan, Véronique Dudouet, Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, Johanna-Maria Hülzer, Marie Kortam, and Amjed Rasheed

2. Understanding radicalisation, extremism, and resilience: an integrative approach to existing knowledge

Javier Ruipérez Canales, Josep García Coll, Roberto Muelas Lobato, and Inmaculada Marrero Rocha

PART I: STATE ACTORS

3. State, clientelism, and extremist groups in Serbia: between vulnerability and resilience

Goran Tepšić and Nemanja Džuverović

4. State resilience, communities’ vulnerability, and violent extremism in Iraq

Amjed Rasheed and Juline Beaujouan

5. Preventing violent extremism in Lebanon: the role of hybrid state institutions

Rudayna Al-Baalbaky

PART II: RELIGIOUS ACTORS

6. Building resilience or increasing vulnerability to extremism in communities? Different perspectives on the role of religious actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Muamer Hirkić and Sead Turčalo

7. Vulnerability and resilience to violent extremism in Sunni and Maronite political communities in Lebanon

Marie Kortam

8. Influential actors, religiosity, and political power in Tunisia

Fethi Rekik and Sadok Damak

PART III: CIVIL SOCIETY ACTORS

9. Ethnopolitical radicalisation in Kosovo: media narratives and civil society response

Ramadan Ilazi, Ardit Orana, and Dorjeta Rukiqi

10. Understanding the prevention of radicalisation in North Macedonia: a study of two localities

Ioannis Armakolas and Bledar Feta

11. Interactions among government actors and civil society organisations to prevent violent extremism in Lebanon

Marie Kortam

12. General conclusion

Biography

Juline Beaujouan is a post-doctoral research fellow with the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep) based at the University of Edinburgh, as well as a senior researcher with Open Think Tank in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Véronique Dudouet is a senior advisor at the Conflict Transformation Research Department at Berghof Foundation. She was also coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 research project PAVE from 2020 to 2023.

Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic is a research fellow at the School of Religion at Trinity College Dublin, where she teaches in the areas of sociology of conflict, race, ethnicity, and identity. She is also a radicalisation expert for the Western Balkans as part of the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN).

Johanna-Maria Hülzer works in the Conflict Transformation Research Department at the Berghof Foundation in Berlin, where she is part of the coordinating team of the PAVE project on community resilience to violent extremism.

Marie Kortam is an associate researcher at the French Institute of the Near-East (IFPO) in Beirut and a member of the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). She is also a research fellow at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) in Paris, France.

Amjed Rasheed is a lecturer of Politics and International Relations of the Middle East at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. He is also a senior researcher at Open Think Tank in Kurdistan, where he specialises in International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Political Islam.