Youth Extremisms: Understanding across Ideological and Religious Contexts (Research Seminar Series)

拟议的研讨会系列建立在共同研究者在组织欧洲右翼极端主义ESRC研究研讨会系列（2014-2015）的经验。它源于对扩大当前系列研讨会成功的潜在好处的认识，这些研讨会有助于增强跨学科知识，并创造一个安全的空间，以便在实质上和意识形态上不同的激进主义和极端主义之间分享研究和最佳政策和干预实践。拟议的新系列研讨会将借鉴通过现有系列研讨会（侧重于反穆斯林、反移民和右翼极端主义）发展起来的广泛的国际学术和非学术参与者网络，但将其范围扩大到那些从事特别是与宗教极端主义、极左和反社团主义激进主义有关的研究、政策和实践的人。自第二次世界大战以来，激进和极端主义团体在欧洲体现了广泛的文化和政治形式。虽然一些团体仍然处于政治边缘，但其他团体则通过引人注目的公共暴力行为而闻名-例如德国左翼和右翼激进团体的爆炸事件或2013年5月伊斯兰主义者在伦敦街头杀害一名英国士兵。青年参与是研究激进主义和暴力的研究人员和决策者最紧迫的关切之一。年轻人比老年人更容易被招募，更容易变得激进;他们也对暴力袭击负有不成比例的责任。在这个系列研讨会中，我们探讨了青年参与激进和极端主义运动以及跨民族，宗教和意识形态背景的亚文化的比较趋势。在重大选举成功和极端主义暴力事件发生之后，政治、媒体和学术界重新关注欧洲极端主义和激进主义的增长，特别是青年在国内外极端主义运动和暴力中的作用。但是，欧洲国家之间几乎没有持续的比较讨论，几乎没有对激进主义和暴力的许多方面进行实证比较研究。我们需要更多的跨学科对话，以及更多的跨意识形态或实质性重点领域的讨论。极左翼学者很少将自己的研究与宗教极端主义学者进行比较，反之亦然;历史学家和政治学家也倾向于在其核心学科而不是跨学科场所展示和发表他们的研究成果。绝大多数研究学者没有找到将他们的实证研究结果与政策制定者联系起来的方法。我们需要有机会比较和对比各种问题，如激进主义参与，暴力倾向，或跨国网络和新媒体平台对极端主义和激进主义招募以及青年激进化的影响，跨越这些不同的学科，国家和意识形态领域。我们还需要结构化的场所，以便更好地将决策者与研究人员联系起来，并以更广泛的公众可以使用的方式分享研究成果。为此，在拟议的系列中，将与非学术组织联合举办研讨会，包括非学术组织参与者的专用空间，并将以联合学术/非学术小组讨论为特色，所有与每个研讨会主题相关的“证据简报”。拟议的系列侧重于青年在意识形态和宗教背景下参与激进主义和极端主义，由六个主题集中的为期一天的研讨会组成，探讨：走向激进主义和极端主义的道路;全球和地方行动视野;社交媒体和企业责任;恐怖主义;激进主义和极端主义的性别层面;去激进化和教育。

The proposed seminar series builds on the experience of the co-investigators in organising the ESRC Research Seminar Series on Right Wing Extremism in Europe (2014-2015). It arises from the recognition of the potential benefit of extending the success of the current seminar series in enhancing cross-disciplinary knowledge and creating a safe space to share research and best policy and intervention practice across substantively and ideologically different radicalisms and extremisms. The proposed new series will draw on the wide international academic and non-academic participant network developed through the existing seminar series (focused on anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and right wing extremism) but extend its reach to those engaged in research, policy and practice related in particular to religion-based extremism and extreme left and anti-corporativist radicalism. Radical and extremist groups have embodied a broad range of cultural and political forms in Europe since World War II. While some groups have remained on the political fringes, others have become known through spectacular acts of public violence - such as bombings by left-wing and right-wing radical groups in Germany or the killing of a British soldier by Islamists on a London street in May 2013. Youth engagement is one of the most pressing concerns for researchers and policymakers who work on radicalism and violence. Young people are easier to recruit and easier to radicalise than older individuals; they are also disproportionately responsible for violent attacks. In this seminar series, we explore comparative trends in youth engagement in radical and extremist movements and subcultures across national, religious, and ideological contexts. Coming on the heels of significant electoral successes and instances of extraordinary extremist violence, there has been renewed political, media, and scholarly attention to extremist and radical growth in Europe, and in particular to the role of youth in domestic and foreign extremist movements and violence. But there have been few sustained comparative discussions across or between European countries and almost no empirical comparative research on the many dimensions of radicalism and violence. We need more cross-disciplinary conversation as well as more discussion across ideological or substantive areas of focus. Scholars of the far left rarely compare their work to scholars of religious extremism or vice versa; so too historians and political scientists tend to present and publish their findings within their core disciplines rather than in cross-disciplinary venues. The vast majority of research scholars do not find ways to connect their empirical findings with policymakers. We need opportunities to compare and contrast issues such as radicalist engagement, propensity to violence, or the influence of transnational networks and new media platforms on extremist and radical recruitment and radicalisation of youth across these various disciplinary, national, and ideological spheres. We need also structured venues to better connect policymakers with researchers and to share research findings in ways that are accessible to the broader public. To this end in the proposed series, seminars will be co-hosted with non-academic organisations, include dedicated space for presentations by non-academic organisation participants and will feature joint academic/non-academic small group discussions feeding in to the production of co-owned 'evidence briefings' related to each seminar theme.The proposed series focuses on youth engagement in radicalism and extremism across ideological and religious contexts and consists of six thematically focused one-day seminars exploring: paths to radicalism and extremism; global and local horizons of action; social media and corporate responsibilities; terrorism; gender dimensions of radicalism and extremism; and deradicalisation and education.