Challenging the youth assumptions behind P/CVE: acknowledging older extremists
Challenging the youth assumptions behind P/CVE: acknowledging older extremists
Maja Halilovic Pastuovic Gillian Wylie School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandMaja Halilovic Pastuovic is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies in Trinity College Dublin and radicalisation expert for the Western Balkans as part of Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN). She is coordinator of GEMS: Games as a Multi-layered Security Threat project. GEMS is an interdisciplinary project which aims to significantly contribute to the fight against the rapid spread of extremism across the gaming ecosystem. Prior to that, Maja was a partner and WP lead on PAVE: Preventing and Addressing Violent Extremism through Community Resilience in the Western Balkans and the MENA and a partner in PERICLES: Policy recommendation and improved communication tools for law enforcement and security agencies preventing violent radicalisation. Maja was also principal investigator on GATED: Segregated education in post-conflict Bosnia and the possibilities of future conflicts in Europe on a MSCA Global Fellowship where she spent 2 years at Sie Centre for International Security and Diplomacy at the University of Denver. Maja is a sociologist and teaches in the areas of peace and conflict, radicalisation and violent extremism and identity, ethnicity and ethnopolitics. https://www.linkedin.com/in/maja-halilovic-pastuovic-0ab193124/.Gillian Wylie is an Associate Professor in International Peace Studies in Trinity College Dublin, with research interests in two distinct and inter-related areas – human trafficking and the gendering of violence and peace. She is author of The International Politics of Human Trafficking (Palgrave 2016) and the co-editor of Prostitution, Feminism and the State: The Politics of Neo-Abolitionism (Routledge 2017) and has published in The Journal of Human Trafficking, Ethnic and Migration Studies and European Journal of Women’s Studies. Gillian has undertaken the role of gender advisor to three European Commission funded projects on violent extremism and resilience to it – PERICLES (2017-20), PAVE (2019-2023) and GEMS (23-26). https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillian-wylie-31736034/.