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Programme

Here you can find the programme of the Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism 2021.

The schedule is in Eastern European Time (EET), GMT +02:00.

The detailed information about the panels and the papers presented are found here.

(Some minor changes might be updated still.)

Wednesday 10 March
Thursday 11 March
Friday 12 March

Wednesday 10 March

11:45-12:00 Welcoming words: Leena Malkki (University of Helsinki)

12:15-13:45 Paper sessions 1 

  • Panel 1: Role of ideology in violent extremism
  • Panel 2: Propaganda, media and radicalization
  • Panel 3: Do we really need historians in the field of combatting extremism and prevention?  

13:45-14:15 Break 

14:15-15:45 Roundtable: Conspiracy thinking and theories

15:45-16:00 Break 

16:00-17:30 First keynote speaker – Mia Bloom (Georgia State University)

  • Women, children and violent extremism

17:45-18:45 Virtual afterwork 

Thursday 11 March

11:00-12:30 Paper sessions 2 

  • Panel 4a: Dynamics of right-wing extremism (1. session) 
  • Panel 5: Non-radicalization and radicalization  
  • Panel 6: Cities and violent extremism  
  • Panel 7: New approaches and methods in terrorism research  

12:30-13:00 Break 

13:00-14:30 Second Keynote speech – Atte Oksanen (University of Tampere)

  • School shootings and Online Communities

14:30-15:00 Break 

15:00-16:30 Paper sessions 3 

  • Panel 4b: Dynamics of right-wing extremism (2. session) 
  • Panel 8: Risk and protective factors  
  • Panel 9: Nordic perspectives to Jihadism and the Syrian conflict  
  • Panel 10: Women and violent extremism  

16:45-17:45 Virtual afterwork 

  • Includes a short tour on the places of political violence in Helsinki

Friday 12 March

11:00-12:30 Paper sessions 4 

  • Panel 11a: Social construction on terrorism and violent extremism (1. session) 
  • Panel 12: Reciprocal radicalisation, polarisation and resilience  
  • Panel 13: Conflictual Agency and counterhegemonic struggles against increasing Islamofobia 

12:30-13:00 Break 

13:00-14:30 Roundtable: Research on Radicalisation – Ways forward

14:30-15:00 Break 

15:00-16:30 Paper sessions 5 

  • Panel 11b: Social construction on terrorism and violent extremism (2.session)  
  • Panel 14: Fear, conspiracies and violent extremism  
  • Panel 15: Dilemmas of counterterrorism  

16:45-17.45 Meet & Greet the Organisers 

  • Meet Leena Malkki (NCVE 2021 organiser) and the future organisers from Gothenburg (NCVE 2022). An opportunity to give feedback and to expresses wishes and ideas for the next conference.