Events
AVERT regularly hosts events and webinars featuring the latest research on topics related to violent extremism, terrorism, radicalisation and countering violent extremism
Recent events
The Disbanding of Jemaah Islamiyah: Causes, Ideological Revisions, and Prospects for the Future
Dr. Julie Chernov Hwang, Senior Research Fellow at the Soufan Center
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Goucher College
How do terrorist organisations end? In June 2024, Jemaah Islamiyah formally disbanded, choosing to dissolve in order to safeguard the community that sustained it. During this presentation, Dr. Chernov Hwang will examine the strategic decision-making and ideological shifts that informed this choice. The process of tactical and ideological reassessment of the use of violence that facilitated the decision to demobilize will be discussed. Dr. Chernov Hwang will also consider the legitimacy of the disbandment and explore potential future directions for the community.
Rethinking religion and radicalisation: The role(s) of religion in far-right extremist movements
While considerable attention has been paid to Islam in discussions of religion and terrorism, far less scrutiny has been directed at how extreme-right movements invoke religion, through symbols, narratives, and beliefs, to advance their agendas. This panel will explore what Alejandro Beutel and Arie Perliger (2025) describe as “the nexus of religious extremism and far-right militancy,” shedding light on an underexamined yet increasingly relevant dimension of violent extremism.
Understanding this intersection is critical for shaping effective countering violent extremism (CVE) policies and programs. Featuring contributors to Rethinking Religion and Radicalization: Terrorism and Violence Twenty Years After 9/11 (Bloomsbury, 2025), this panel will delve into a range of topics, including the role of Orthodox Christianity in far-right ideologies, the emergence of ‘conspirituality’ and militant wellness, and the strategic deployment of religious discourse by radical-right movements in the United States and Israel.
Panelists:
Dr Alejandro Beutel
Prof Arie Perliger
Dr Vivian Gerrand
Prof Michele Grossman AM
Lydia Khalil
Event recordings
2025
AVERT Webinar with Dr. Rik Peels - Cognitive and Behavioral Radicalization: An Explanatory Split
AVERT Webinar with Dr. Joel Busher - Violence escalation and inhibition during far-right protest waves
AVERT Hybrid Event - 2025 Global Terrorism Index Launch
AVERT Webinar with Dr. Julie Chernov Hwang - The Disbanding of Jemaah Islamiyah
AVERT Webinar - Emerging Global Perspectives on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism
Rethinking religion and radicalisation: The role(s) of religion in far-right extremist movements
AVERT Webinar with Dr. Keiran Hardy - How (Not) to Argue with a Sovereign Citizen
2024
AVERT Webinar with Dr. Mario Peucker - Understanding and Countering the Rise of the Far-Right
AVERT Webinar with Dr Suraj Lakhani - The nexus between videogaming and violent extremism
AVERT Webinar with Dr Aaron Y Zelin - The Evolution of the Islamic State
AVERT Webinar with Dr Julia Ebner - Is There a Language of Terrorists?
AVERT Webinar with Dr Imogen Richards - The Far Right and the Environment in Australia.
AVERT Webinar with Professor John Horgan - Terrorist Minds
AVERT Webinar - Research on Radicalisation Countering Radicalisation: Where have we got to and ways forward.
AVERT Webinar with Jade Hutchinson - “The Far-Right Online Ecosystem”: How a Network of Platforms and Devices Shape Far-Right Violent Extremism
AVERT Webinar with Dr Lauren Moulds and John Young - Rethinking CVE Interventions: a needs based approach to supporting extremists and terrorist offenders
AVERT Webinar with Professor Stuart Macdonald - “Outlinks”: Violent Jihadist Online Propaganda Dissemination Strategies
2023
AVERT Webinar with Professor Daniel Byman - The October 7th Attacks: Hamas Goals, Israeli Response and Global Impacts
December 2023
AVERT Webinar with Professor Sébastien Brouillette-Alarie - Systematic review of the reliability and validity of risk tools for violent radicalization: Is the evidence base solid?
9 November 2023
AVERT Webinar with Associate Professor David Malet - Ukraine Foreign Fighters: Volunteers on the Right Side or the Far-Right’s ISIS?
1 August 2023
AVERT Webinar with Emma Belton - Understanding the progression to violence: Background characteristics and risk factors for radicalisation to violent extremism
July 6, 2023
AVERT Webinar with Dr Marc-André Argentino - QAnon as a New Religious Movement and its Implications for Violent Extremism
MAY 19, 2023
AVERT Webinar with Dr Vivian Gerrand - Understanding conspiritual radicalisation and militant wellness movements: harnessing alternative health capital?
18 October 2023
AVERT Webinar with Professor Joel Busher - Pathways Towards and Away From Violence During Waves of Far Right Protest
April 19, 2023
AVERT Webinar with Professor Paul Thomas - The State of British Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE)
MAR 6, 2023
2022
AVERT Webinar with Dr Imogen Richards - Far Right Identitarianism and the Great Replacement Conspiracy in Australia
AUG 8, 2022
AVERT Webinar with Prof. Dr. Jan-Willem van Prooijen - Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
JUN 20, 2022
AVERT Webinar with Annemarie van de Weert. - The Role of Subjectivity in the Early Detection of Violent Extremism Among Youth
MAY 18, 2022
AVERT Webinar with Professor Maura Conway - Online Extremism and Terrorism: What to Watch for in 2022
APR 14, 2022
2021
TSAS AVERT Religion and the Far Right 2
OCT 25, 2021
AVERT Webinar: Rethinking US Efforts on Counterterrorism: Toward a Sustainable Plan 20 Years after 9/11
SEP 20, 2021
AVERT Webinar - Afghanistan and the Return of the Taliban
SEP , 2021
AVERT Webinar with Associate Professor Tahir Abbas - Islamophobia, Reciprocal Radicalisation and CVE
AUG, 2021
Ryan Scrivens - Online Behaviour of Right Wing Extremists
AUG 5, 2021
AVERT Webinar with Professor Winnifred Louis: When Deradicalisation Goes Wrong?
JUN 21, 2021
Joint AVERT-TSAS Webinar: Religion and the Far Right
JUN 21, 2021
AVERT Webinar: Critical Perspectives on CVE and PVE
MAY 31, 2021
AVERT Speaker Series: Dr Shiri Krebs on “Counterterrorism & Predictive Technologies”
MAR 19, 2021
2020
AVERT International Speaker Series: Maura Conway
DEC 11, 2020
AVERT International Speaker Series: John Horgan
NOV 20, 2020
AVERT International Speaker Series: Dr Haroro J. Ingram and Dr Craig Whiteside
NOV 17, 2020
AVERT Webinar with Dr Helen Young
NOV 8, 2020
AVERT International Speaker Series: John Morrison on “Talking Stagnation”
OCT 20, 2020