Constraining Violence

Thursday 25 November

5pm – 6:30pm GMT

A round table discussion on constraining violence in groups in association with the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats.

Watch the lecture now on Youtube.

Chaired by Dr Tim Wilson, CSTPV

Tim Wilson directs the CSTPV at the University of St Andrews. An expert witness for the New Zealand’ government’s Royal Commission into the Christchurch Mosque shootings, he is a frequent commentator on terrorism in the media.

Dr Joel Busher, CTPSR – “Intra-group brakes on violent escalation: how they work and fail”

Dr Joel Busher is a Senior Research Fellow at CTPSR, Coventry University. His primary research interests are in the social ecology of political violence and anti-minority activism, and the implementation of counter-terrorism policy and its societal impacts.

Dr Sarah Carthy and Dr Bart Schuurman, Leiden University, “Understanding non-involvement in terrorist violence”

Sarah Carthy is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) in the Netherlands. Her recent work was in the area of radicalization, where she explored the potential for counter-narratives in the context of prevention. In her current role, she is working alongside Bart Schuurman on a multi-year, multi-region project on non-involvement in terrorist violence.

Bart Schuurman is an Associate Professor at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA). His past work has looked contemporary terrorism and counterterrorism from a variety of perspectives, including the role of public support in determining counterterrorism success or failure, the causes of homegrown jihadism and the state of the field of research. His current research project studies the differences between individuals who radicalize to extremism but do not use terrorist violence, and those who do. This research is being carried out with Dr. Sarah Carthy.

Dr Sarah Marsden and Dr Benjamin Lee, CSTPV, “Limits on Violent Extremism: Conceptualising protective factors and subcultural constraints ”

Sarah Marsden is a Senior Lecturer at CSTPV. Her research and teaching take an interdisciplinary approach to radical and violent politics.

Benjamin Lee is a Senior Research Associate at the CSTPV where his research work is funded by the CREST. His research interests centre on the extreme-right, and in particular organisational change, terrorism, and subcultural approaches to extremism.