Events

AVERT regularly hosts events and webinars featuring the latest research on topics related to violent extremism, terrorism, radicalisation and countering violent extremism

Upcoming events

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

Online event

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

07.30 - 08.45 PM EDT

Thursday, 19 June 2025

09.30 - 10.45 AM AEST

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

Online Event

Wednesday, 14 May 2025

07:00 - 08:00 PM EDT

Thursday, 15 May 2025

09:00 - 10:00 AM AEST

Zoom

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.

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

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