The Centre for Global Security Challenges, University of Leeds and START, University of Maryland are delighted to welcome you to our online two-day workshop on the role of formers in P/CVE and Peacebuilding, 17-18th February 2022. This workshop aims to shed light on the role of former extremists and former combatants in P/CVE and peacebuilding initiatives across a range of contexts, bringing together academic and practitioner expertise. It will facilitate an exchange of evidence, ideas and experiences on what extent formers can contribute to P/CVE and peacebuilding, what the challenges are in their involvement and how these can be overcome. The workshop includes contributions from a forthcoming book – ‘Former Extremists’ – as part of the START-Oxford University Press Book Series, edited by Gordon Clubb, Ryan Scrivens and Md Didarul Islam.

17-18th February 2022

Online

Keynote Speaker

Professor John Horgan, Georgia State University

John Horgan is a Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University’s Department of Psychology where he also directs the Violent Extremism Research Group (VERG). Professor Horgan is one of the world’s leading experts on terrorist psychology. His work is widely published, with books including The Psychology of Terrorism (now in its second edition and published in over a dozen languages worldwide), Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland’s Dissident Terrorists; Walking Away from Terrorism, Leaving Terrorism Behind, and Terrorism Studies: A Reader.