Panels

Below you can find detailed information about the panels and papers.

• Chair: Amir Rostami (Institute for Futures Studies) 
• Torhild Breidlid (OsloMet): Preventing and countering radicalization and violent extremism in Kenya – a critical case study 
• Kristin H Dugstad (Oslo Metropolitan University): A faith which has no name? 
• Jeppe Fuglsang Larsen & Sune Qvotrup Jensen (Aalborg University): Everyday religion and radical Islamism – a contribution to theorizing the role of religion in radicalization studies 
• Håvard Haugstvedt (University of Stavanger, Norway) & Martin M. Sjøen, (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway): Exploring youths’ willingness to engage with civil society and public sector institutions: The untapped potential of religious communities when preventing violent extremism 
• Heidi Maiberg (Royal Holloway University of London): The role and importance of religion during the process of deradicalisation and disengagement: to include or not to include? 

• Chair: Lisa Kaati (Swedish Defence Research Institute) 
• Leena Malkki, Juha Saarinen & Daniel Sallamaa (University of Helsinki): Violent extremist narratives in Finnish-language online communities 
• Guri Nordtorp Mølmen (Independent researcher/University of Oslo) Jacob Aasland Ravndal (University of Oslo): Mechanisms of online radicalisation: How the internet affects the radicalisation of extreme-right lone actor terrorists 
• Sara Jul Jacobsen (The Danish Centre for Prevention of Extremism): Male warriors and female honor: Masculinity and femininity in online Salafi propaganda
• Henriette Frees Esholdt & Mehmet Ümit Necef (Lund University): Terrorist Kitsch: Narratives of Nostalgia in Islamic State Propaganda 
• Noora Kotilainen (National Defence University/University of Helsinki): Horrific Spectacles –Brutal Terrorist Visual Communication as Thanatopolitics 

• Chair: Heléne Lööw (Uppsala University), Co-chair: Louise Berglund (Uppsala University) 
• Heléne Lööw (Uppsala University): Do we really need historians in the field of combating extremism and prevention?
• Jens Edlund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), D. Brodén, M. Fridlund, C. Lindhé, L.-J. Olsson, M. Ängsal & P. Öhberg: Terrorism in Swedish politics (SweTerror): A multimodal study of the configuration of terrorism in parliamentary debates, legislation and policy networks in Sweden 1968–2018
• Louise Berglund (Uppsala University): The roots of anti-Jewish propaganda and sentiment: Medieval to modern

Session 1

• Chair: Tommi Kotonen (University of Jyväskylä) 
• Tore Bjørgo (University of Oslo): Why the Nordic Resistance Movement restrains its use of violence
• Christer Mattsson & Thomas Johansson (University of Gothenburg): Neo-Nazi Violence and Ideology: Changing Attitudes Toward Violence in Sweden’s Skinhead and Post-Skinhead Eras
• Daniel Sallamaa (University of Helsinki): Violence and policing violence in Finnish far-right demonstrations

Session 2

• Chair: Daniel Sallamaa (University of Helsinki)
• Graham Macklin & Tore Bjørgo (University of Oslo): Breivik’s long shadow: The impact of the 22 July attacks on the modus operandi of far-right lone actor terrorist
• Anders Ravik Jupskås & Hans Peter Tranøy (University of Oslo): Far Right Activists against Islam: Survey Evidence from Norway
• Cathrine Thorleifsson (University of Oslo): Dark echoes: fascist memes in the digital age
• Eviane Leidig (University of Oslo): Alt-Right Women and Online Radicalization

• Chair: Juha Saarinen (King’s College London) 
• Amir Rostami (Institute for Futures Studies), J. Sturup, H. Mondani, C. Carlsson, J. Sarnecki & C. Edling: Lonely together: A registry-based study of male lone wolfs, their male siblings and other extremists
• Rune Ellefsen (University of Oslo) & Sveinung Sandberg (University of Oslo): Interruption of young Muslims’ radicalization: The role of religious authority, family, peers, and the police
• Heidi Maiberg (Royal Holloway University of London): Quo Vadis, Estonian far-right? Numbers behind the zero
• Sébastien Tutenges (Lund University) & Sveinung Sandberg (University of Oslo): Street culture meets extremism: How Muslims involved in street life and crime oppose jihadism

• Chair: Anneli Portman (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare) 
• Mats Fridlund (University of Gothenburg): How We are Learning to Live with the Bombs: Domesticating the threat of urban terrorism through materialities and routines
• Anna-Maria Fjellman (University of Gothenburg) & Lasse Lindekilde and Oluf Gøtzsche-Astrup (Aarhus University): The Nordic geographies of counter violent extremism – an analysis of spatial patterns in public perceptions of policies and willingness to report concerns of radicalization
• Virginie Andre (Victoria University), Onni Sarvela (Exit Finland) & Fabian Wichmann (Exit Germany): Once an Extremist, Always an Extremist? 

• Chair: Irina van der Vet (University of Helsinki) 
• Tanja Marie Hansen & Jens Lemb (University of Southern Denmark): Machine Learning and Credit-Taking: An Inductive Approach to Disentangling Terrorist Attention-Seeking Behavior
• Dr. Yannick Veilleux-Lepage (Leiden University): How Terror Evolves: The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques
• Jacob Aasland Ravndal (University of Oslo): Is right-wing terrorism on the rise? How measurement problems in terrorism research lead to different conclusions about the same phenomenon

• Chair: Lasse Lindekilde (Aarhus University) 
• Rita Augestad Knudsen (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) & Ole Martin Stormoen: Picking your potion: three countries' experiences with selecting and using specialized risk assessment tools in the prison and probation context
• Caitlin Clemmow & Paul Gill (University College London): Exploring Risk and Protective Factors for Active Exposure to Violent Extremists, Their Materials, and Settings in a General Population
• Sara With Skaar, Milan Obaidi (University of Oslo) & Jonas R. Kunst (NUPI): Measuring Extremist Archetypes: Scale Development and Validation
• Nazar Akrami, Amendra Shrestha (Uppsala University) & Lisa Kaati (Swedish Defence Research Institute): Digital Risk Assessment of Individuals and Environments:  Introducing the General Risk Score

• Chair: Saija Benjamin (University of Helsinki) 
• Sanna Mustasaari (University of Eastern Finland): Finnish children or “cubs of the Caliphate”? Jurisdiction, child welfare and the rights of the child
• Kathrine Elmose Jørgensen (University of Copenhagen): How did they end up in the Salafi-jihadist battle field? Testimonies from the inner circle of four Danish deceased or stranded al-Qaeda and ISIS foreign fighters
• Jennie Sivenbring (University of Gothenburg): A European Guantanamo for Swedish children in Syria 
• Henriette Frees Esholdt (Lund University): Coping with Everyday Life in Al-Hol(lywood): Contradicting Narratives of Despair and Glorification from Women in the Al-Hol Camp
• Lotta Tuomaala-Järvinen (University of Helsinki) & Juha Saarinen (King’s College London): A Threefold Typology of Jihadist Financing in Finland, 2008-2019

• Chair: Anna Ekström (Institute for Futures Studies) 
• Jerzy Sarnecki (Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden): Women in violent extremism in Sweden
• Hernan Mondani (Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden): The co-offending network of Swedish female violent extremists
• Tina Askanius (Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden): Women in the Nordic Resistance Movement and their online media practices: between internalised misogyny and embedded feminism

Session 1

• Chair: Tore Bjørgo (University of Oslo) 
• Mattias Wahlström (University of Gothenburg), Magnus Wennerhag & Jan Jämte (Örebro University): Local constructions of violent extremism: Negotiating the meaning of a contested concept in Swedish municipal and regional authorities
• Jesper Rasmussen (Aarhus University): How the Public Defines Online Hate Speech
• Daniel Brodén & Mats Fridlund (University of Gothenburg): Political Violent Extremism in the Welfare State: Public Discourse and Cultural Imaginaries of Terrorism in Cold War Sweden

Session 2

• Chair: Jacob Aasland Ravndal (University of Oslo) 
• Martin M. Sjøen (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences): Let’s talk about terrorism
• Oluf Gøtzsche-Astrup, Lasse Lindekilde (Aarhus University) and Anna-Maria Fjellman (University of Gothenburg): : Perceived legitimacy of CVE Policies and the Willingness to Report Concerns of Radicalization to Authorities in the Nordic Countries
• Øyvind Bugge Solheim & Anders Ravik Jupskås (University of Oslo): A politicized interpretation? A survey analysis of how Norwegians understand the 22 July attacks ten years after

• Chair: Christer Mattsson (University of Gothenburg) 
• Milan Obaidi (University of Oslo): Reciprocal Extremism: The Escalating Vicious Cycle of Hostility among Muslims and non-Muslims
• Lars Erik Berntzen (University of Oslo) & Eelco Harteveld and Haylee Kelsall (University of Amsterdam): Measuring and Modelling Escalating Polarization: From Partisan Engagement to Intolerance and Support for Violence
• Joel Backström, Karin Creutz & Niko Pyrhönen (University of Helsinki): Conceptualizing far-right action as reactivity
• Saija Benjamin (University of Helsinki): Resilience and PVE-E in Finland 

• Chair: Line Lerche Mørck (Aarhus University) 
• Iram Khawaja (Aarhus University) & Line Lerche Mørck (Aarhus University): Learning to be a good Muslim – Mo(ve)ments beyond gang engagement and radicalization
• Line Lerche Mørck (Aarhus University), Wael Adnan Aiche, Tina Wilchen Christensen & Helle Rabøl Hansen: Preventive street level social work and collective, conflictual agency in the wake of Rasmus Paludan’s Burning of the Quran
• Helle Rabøl Hansen (Aarhus University): Social media as "The new street" 

• Chair: Niko Pyrhönen (University of Helsinki)
• Milan Obaidi (University of Oslo): Fear of infectious diseases lead to an increase in Xenophobic attitudes
• Niko Pyrhönen & Katja Valaskivi (University of Helsinki): Exploring methods for recognizing extremist contents - Studying circulation of conspiratorial content between mainstream, dark web and extremist platforms
• Bettina Rottweiler & Paul Gill (UCL): Psychological Mechanisms linking Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Extremism
• Emilia Lounela (University of Helsinki): A review of current research on the incel phenomenon

• Chair: Rita Augestad Knudsen (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) 
• Irina van der Vet (University of Helsinki): Hybrid Threat Strategy and the EU Counterterrorism Policy
• Jan Jämte (Örebro University) & Rune Ellefsen (University of Oslo): Countering extremism(s): Differences in local prevention of left-wing, right-wing and Islamist extremism 
• Sofia Beskow (Södertörns Högskola): The paradox of tolerance and democratic self-defense: State repression against radical social movements 
• Ann-Kristin Jonasson (University of Gothenburg): The Double-Edged Sword of Democracy: How Democracy is used in the European Union's External Action against Terrorism in the Middle East