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DARE is a collaborative project involving 17 partners drawn from academic institutions, civil society groups and practitioners from media and de-radicalisation organisations. A visual representation of the countries covered by the consortium is provided below.
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The University of Manchester
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The University of Manchester has a distinguished history in research, innovation and enterprise stretching over 75 years. The university has over 12,000 members of staff and a student population of almost 40,000, making it the largest single-site university in the UK. In total, 25 Nobel Prize winners have worked or studied at the university, which was ranked 35th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities in 2016. The School of Social Sciences (SoSS) employs over 180 academic staff across the six discipline areas of Economics, Politics, Sociology, Social Statistics, Social Anthropology and Philosophy. SoSS is one of the top three Schools of Social Sciences in the country (alongside Oxford and the London School of Economics) and is home to more than 500 postgraduate students. Research in the School of Social Sciences is known for being theoretically informed, empirically grounded, methodologically innovative and policy relevant.
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Anadolu UniversityAnadolu University (AU) was established in 1982 in Eskisehir and has gained reputation as a dynamic and innovative institution in Turkey. It is a large institution, promoting universal higher education values and blazing trails in higher education. AU has 16 faculties (three of which offer distance education), 4 applied schools, 4 vocational schools, 9 graduate schools, 25 research centres and 15 R&D and application units. The successful launch of the distance education system ranks at the top of innovative initiatives at Anadolu University; over one million students are enrolled in these programmes across 3 faculties. At Anadolu University, there are over 1900 faculty members with national and international experience and many leading researchers and artists in the country serve as either full-time or visiting academic staff. All academic staff are committed to sharing their knowledge and experience with students.
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Collegium Civitas University (Civ)
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Collegium Civitas is a modern, non-state higher education institution established in 1997 in Warsaw. It operates under the auspices of the five institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The experience and commitment of its founders and faculty members have earned it a reputation as a prestigious place to study international relations and social and political sciences in Polish and English. Collegium Civitas conducts research in a broad social and political science field. The DARE project will be located both in the Center for the Sociological Interventions (CIS), which is a research institute established in collaboration with the Social Movements Research Team Foundation, and at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism. In DARE, Civ will co-lead WP3 (Counter-radicalisation policy and interventions: Review and evaluation) and will contribute to WPs 7, 8, 9 and 10. Dr Lukasz Jurczyszyn is a coordinator of DARE team at Civ.
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École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)The EHESS, founded in 1947, has the privileged status of grand établissement. This academic institution functions similarly to a doctoral or graduate school covering the whole spectrum of humanities and social sciences. Its 250 chair professors and associate professors have the task of training their Masters and Doctoral students in research but also conduct graduate-level seminars on topics directly linked to their own research. The Ecole’s main objective is the promotion of leadership in research with an emphasis on interdisciplinarity. The CADIS (Center for sociological analysis and intervention) is a sociology research centre created in 1981. Affiliated to EHESS and CNRS, the centre has built a research programme characterised by theoretical and methodological innovation and developed a novel sociology of action, with an original methodological approach: sociological intervention. CADIS ambitions are to study the processes through which social action is produced as well as social actors’ subjectivity and reflexive capacities.
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The Institute of Social Sciences Ivo PilarThe Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar (IPI) is a public institute of the Republic of Croatia. Its primary mission is to conduct high-quality interdisciplinary scientific and professional research in the field of social sciences and humanities. The IPI's activities are financed through the state budget at the national and regional level, with funds approved for scientific projects by the Croatian Science Foundation. Its activities are also financed through the contracts with international organisations, contracts of multilateral and/or bilateral cooperation, scientific and professional projects. IPI has been a partner in numerous international research projects including those supported by EU frameworks (e.g. HORIZONT2020, FP7, FP6, CPST, ESF) including the Promoting Youth Involvement and Social Engagement (PROMISE; 2016-2018); Measuring youth well-being (MYWEB 2014- 2016), Memory, Youth, Political Legacy And Civic Engagement (MYPLACE, 2011-2015), European Social Survey (round 4, round 5) etc.
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Research Unit on Right-Wing Extremism (FORENA)
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The Research Unit on Right-Wing Extremism (FORENA) is situated at Hochschule Düsseldorf's Faculty of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies. Founded in 1987 it has a long tradition in researching the far right's history and its ideological formations but also how and why it followers might turn to more radical kinds of thought and action. FORENA's approach is not about individualizing the problems of right-wing extremism and racism but analysing them as core problems from a social theory perspective. Recent research is on the rise of right-wing populism and anti-Muslim racism in Germany and Europe. In addition, we look at the dynamics of neo-Salafist movements and their interplay with right-wing extremist groups.
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European Network Against Racism
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ENAR is a strong pan-European network of anti-racism NGOs combining Europe-wide advocacy for racial equality and the facilitation of cooperation among civil society anti-racist actors across Europe. ENAR is the only pan-European network where organisations combating different forms of racism can exchange and plan common action. The organisation was set up in 1998 by grassroots activists on a mission to achieve legal changes at European level and make decisive progress towards racial equality in all EU Member States. ENAR founders contributed to the adoption of the Race and Employment Equality Directives in 2000. Following its formal establishment, ENAR became a direct interlocutor of the EU institutions on racial equality, committed to monitoring the transposition and implementation of EU equality legislation.
ENAR has reached 190 members based in 27 EU Member States. ENAR Europe, based in Brussels, Belgium, conducts the day-to-day work of the network at European level and combines its policy work with project management and media activities. In DARE, ENAR will co-lead WP9 (Countering radicalisation through dialogue) and WP10 (Societal impact, scientific and public engagement) drawing on its extensive grassroots network to maximise the reach and impact of the project. |
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The German Institute on Radicalization (GIRDS)
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The German Institute on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies (GIRDS) is a German research and network initiative focusing solely on the theory and practice of de-radicalization and counter-radicalization. GIRDS is completely non-profit and independent. It is not institutionally bound and does not follow any partisan politics. GIRDS is a transparent network of experts both from practical backgrounds and the academia aiming to foster the theoretical and practical development of de-radicalization methods, evaluation tools, training manuals, and concepts.
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The Higher School of Economics
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The Higher School of Economics (HSE) is a leader in Russian education and one of the preeminent economics and social sciences universities in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Since its founding in 1992, it has developed from an economics institute into a comprehensive university, based in Moscow, with branches in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Perm. Our faculty, researchers, and students represent over 50 countries, more than 31 200 students study here.
The Center for Youth Studies (CYS) was founded in 2009 as a research center of HSE in St. Petersburg. At the moment, it includes 22 researchers. CYS implements different projects in the following areas of youth studies: youth cultures, scenes, and solidarities; youth social and political engagement, activism, and involvement; intergenerational research and transmition of historical memory; youth in the labour market; youth consumption; migration, religion, and ethnicity; urban and rural youth; prison studies; social studies of body and age. Leiden University |
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The Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University is an internationally acclaimed academic knowledge hub that studies world-wide issues from the varied perspectives of governance, politics, law, sociology and economics. We contribute to far-reaching socio-cultural debate through our acquired knowledge. We aim to do this not only through education and research, but also by organizing lectures and debates. Our faculty has an entrepreneurial mind set, expressed through a continuous quest for links with other academic disciplines and innovative educational methods.
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Oslo Metropolitan University - Oslo Met
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Oslo Metropolitan University - OsloMet is Norway's third largest university, with a student body of approximately 16,000 students and 1,850 employees. OsloMet is unique in a national context due to its wide range of professional programmes and strong focus on qualifying students for professions that will contribute to future welfare and value creation in Norway and Europe. OsloMet has long-standing experience with participating in international projects and has, for example, coordinated one Horizon 2020 project on young people in Europe.
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Panteion University
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Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens is one of the largest and most historic public universities in Greece. It was founded in 1930 by the "Educational Renaissance" Association under the name of the Free School of Political Economics. It is the fifth oldest Higher Education Institution in Greece and the first school of political science. Today, Panteion University has around 250 academic staff, 18,500 students across four schools and nine academic departments as well as six postgraduate programmes with 1,500 students. Panteion University hosts 3 Research Institutes, 18 Research Centres and 4 Laboratories staffed by highly trained and experienced academics, as well as postgraduate and doctoral students. The staff is organised into research teams that, under the supervision and advice of highly qualified professors, plan, design and implement numerous national and international research programmes, initiatives and activities and are supported technical through excellent IT and computer provision.
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The University of Sfax
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The University of Sfax, located in the Tunisia’s second city, was founded in 1986. It has more than 48,500 students and eight faculties. The Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Sfax (FLSHS), where the DARE team members are based, has 6,200 students and employs over 110 academic staff across 7 discipline areas and is home to one of only three Sociology departments in the country. The Faculty has an active research culture and embraces the full range of quantitative and qualitative research methods. It is also a contributing member of the university’s doctoral training centre. Members of the DARE team are drawn from Sfax University as well as the University of El Maner (Tunis) and collaborate in research through the ECUMUS (Etat, Culture et Mutations de société) research group. This group has conducted extensive research on issues of youth, inequality and identity including empirical studies of contemporary social issues including youth suicide, youth social exclusion and Salafist identity formation among young people.
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The University of Oslo (UiO), Norway
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The University of Oslo (UiO) was founded in 1811, and is the oldest and largest university in Norway. It has 27000 students and 7000 staff members. UiO comprises eight faculties, in addition to the Viking ships museum, the Historical museum, the Natural history museum and the Main library. UiO is ranked among the 100 top universities in the world. UiO’s annual budget is BNOK 6.6, most of which is financed by the Ministry of Education and Research, in addition to the Norwegian Research Council and the European Commission through its research programmes.
The Center for Research on Extremism: The Extreme Right, Hate Crime and Political Violence (C-REX), at the University of Oslo is a multi-disciplinary center for the study of right-wing extremism, hate crime and political violence. C-REX is cross-disciplinary, with staff members from political science, sociology, social anthropology, religious studies, history, media studies, criminology, psychology, law, area studies, and peace studies. dit. |
Teesside University
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History is a long-standing area of research excellence at Teesside University. In REF 2014, 73% of TEES’s submission in the field of History was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. History hosts the Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies (CFAPS), which focuses on the study of the far right and its opposition. Teesside University has been involved in several projects funded by FP7. Teesside University is participating as a sub-contractor in a current FP7 Social Sciences and Humanities project, and has taken part in three projects funded by the EC’s Prevention of and Fight against Crime programme. Teesside University also has experience of multi-partner projects funded by national sources such as the UK Research Councils, including a heritage research consortium funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), major charities such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Innovate UK, which funds collaboration between academic and non-academic organisations.
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The People for Change Foundation
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The People for Change Foundation’s vision is of a just, fair and inclusive society where all members may reach their full potential unhindered by factors such as age, race, colour, gender, language, religion, political or other opinion, national origin, property, birth or other status.
The Foundation operates at the intersection between law, policy and social science, delivering analysis that is practical in input and pragmatic in outcome. The People for Change Foundation was set up with the express aim of contributing to a multilateral process between a range of stakeholders and entities - governmental, non-governmental and academic - to conduct research in areas of direct relevance to the livelihood and quality of life of the populations we work with and for, and to address human rights concerns by working towards the safeguarding of international and national legal obligations and development. |
The University of Birmingham
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The University of Birmingham is a global university with more than 33000 students. Founded in 1900, Birmingham was England’s first civic university, where students from all religions and backgrounds were accepted on an equal basis. The College of Social Sciences brings together over 360 academics across a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. The work impacts all areas of society grounded in the key disciplines of business, economics, education, government and society, and social policy. The Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology is a leading multi-disciplinary academic team committed to providing world-class research and teaching. The research explores how policy and practice can contribute to making a difference in people's lives - particularly those who may face disadvantage or social exclusion.
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International Advisory Group
The DARE Project and the Consortium members benefit from the support of an international Advisory group made up of:
Sia Anagnostopoulou
Athanasia (Sia) Anagnostopoulou is currently the Alternate Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs and an associate professor of history at the Panteion University. She has been a visiting professor at the New York University, the University of Cyprus and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and is a specialist in nationalism in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, and colonialism in Cyprus.
Kalsoom Bashir
Kalsoom Bashir is co-director of Inspire, a counter-extremism and human rights organisation seeking to address inequalities facing Muslim women in Britain. Kalsoom has been the lead Prevent Office for Bristol City Council, responsible for identifying areas of Preventing Violent Extremism consultation with Muslim communities and delivering projects that build capacity, including among young people and women, to challenge extremism. She serves on the National Muslim Women’s Advisory group and is seconded currently to Avon and Somerset police as regional trainer.
Heidi Beirich
Dr. Heidi Beirich leads the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, ‘one of the most respected anti-terror organizations in the world’ according to the National Review. She is an expert on various forms of extremism, including the white supremacist, nativist and neo-Confederate movements as well as racism in academia. She oversees the SPLC’s authoritative, yearly count of the nation’s hate and hard-line, anti-government groups and is a frequent contributor to the SPLC’s investigative reports and speaker at conferences on extremism. She holds a doctorate in political science from Purdue University.
Jacques Dubucs
Jacques Dubucs is Director of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of France and researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He heads the Strategic Working Group for Societal und Cultural Innovation in the EC’s European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). A key field of his expertise at the Ministry of Science is homeland and European security issues, especially concerning France. He has a keen interest in the contribution of proximal approaches in research (ethnography, interviews) to public decision-making.
Fouad Gandoul
Fouad Gandoul is Regional manager for ACV, the largest Belgian union. He has Masters degrees in Political Science and in Public Law and Public Governance (VUB). He is active as a judge in labour law in the labour court in Hasselt. He is co-founder of EmBem (Empowering Belgian Muslims), an organisation promoting education and (self) employment as a means to strengthen the civic engagement of the Muslim community within Belgian society.
Daniela Pisoiu
Dr Daniela Pisoiu is a Senior Researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs. She brings in more than 10 years of expertise in the area of radicalization, extremism and terrorism, in particular with respect to individual radicalization processes. She has conducted numerous interviews with right-wing, Islamist and left-wing (former) violent extremists, writes regular policy papers and briefs and is advising the German and Austrian authorities in the areas of prevention and deradicalisation. She is member of the Monitoring Board of theBeratungsstelle „Radikalisierung“ with the German Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge and member of the team tasked with formulating the Austrian National Prevention Strategy. She holds a doctorate in political science from the University of St Andrews.
Vidhya Ramalingam
Vidhya Ramalingam is Director of Moonshot CVE, which develops innovative methods of response to extremism and community violence. She Research Associate of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS, University of Oxford), a Fellow of the German Institute for the Study of Radicalization and Deradicalization (GIRDS) and member of the Advisory Board of Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks). Previously she was Senior Fellow on Far-Right Extremism and Intolerance at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and Senior Research Fellow on Migration and Communities at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). In 2014, with support from the EC, she launched The Far-Right Extremism in Europe Initiative (The FREE Initiative) offering guidance and online learning for counter-extremism practitioners.
Kelly Simcock
Kelly Simcock is currently Director of Programme at the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Peace Foundation (UK) where she continues her frontline work but also plays a strategic role in developing programmes and activities. In this capacity Kelly played a major role in the’ Rethinking Radicalisation’ review and report for Manchester City Council. Kelly is also Co-chair of the European Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Youth, Families and Communities Working Group which promotes engagement with – and empowerment of – youth, communities and families as critical in the prevention of radicalisation and in guiding practitioners in developing de-radicalisation strategies.Kelly is currently an elected member of Manchester City Council.
Elisabeth Staksrud
Dr. Elisabeth Staksrud is deputy chair of the Norwegian National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH). Her research interests revolve around children and online risk, regulation and rights, online censorship and governance and research ethics. She is in the management group of the 33-country EU Kids Online project (www.eukidsonline.net) and a former Harvard Berkman Center Research Fellow. Recent books include Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights (Ashgate, 2013) and Digital Mobbing (Kommuneforlaget, 2013). Dr Staksrud is a member of the Ethics sub-committee.
Sia Anagnostopoulou
Athanasia (Sia) Anagnostopoulou is currently the Alternate Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs and an associate professor of history at the Panteion University. She has been a visiting professor at the New York University, the University of Cyprus and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and is a specialist in nationalism in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, and colonialism in Cyprus.
Kalsoom Bashir
Kalsoom Bashir is co-director of Inspire, a counter-extremism and human rights organisation seeking to address inequalities facing Muslim women in Britain. Kalsoom has been the lead Prevent Office for Bristol City Council, responsible for identifying areas of Preventing Violent Extremism consultation with Muslim communities and delivering projects that build capacity, including among young people and women, to challenge extremism. She serves on the National Muslim Women’s Advisory group and is seconded currently to Avon and Somerset police as regional trainer.
Heidi Beirich
Dr. Heidi Beirich leads the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, ‘one of the most respected anti-terror organizations in the world’ according to the National Review. She is an expert on various forms of extremism, including the white supremacist, nativist and neo-Confederate movements as well as racism in academia. She oversees the SPLC’s authoritative, yearly count of the nation’s hate and hard-line, anti-government groups and is a frequent contributor to the SPLC’s investigative reports and speaker at conferences on extremism. She holds a doctorate in political science from Purdue University.
Jacques Dubucs
Jacques Dubucs is Director of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of France and researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He heads the Strategic Working Group for Societal und Cultural Innovation in the EC’s European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). A key field of his expertise at the Ministry of Science is homeland and European security issues, especially concerning France. He has a keen interest in the contribution of proximal approaches in research (ethnography, interviews) to public decision-making.
Fouad Gandoul
Fouad Gandoul is Regional manager for ACV, the largest Belgian union. He has Masters degrees in Political Science and in Public Law and Public Governance (VUB). He is active as a judge in labour law in the labour court in Hasselt. He is co-founder of EmBem (Empowering Belgian Muslims), an organisation promoting education and (self) employment as a means to strengthen the civic engagement of the Muslim community within Belgian society.
Daniela Pisoiu
Dr Daniela Pisoiu is a Senior Researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs. She brings in more than 10 years of expertise in the area of radicalization, extremism and terrorism, in particular with respect to individual radicalization processes. She has conducted numerous interviews with right-wing, Islamist and left-wing (former) violent extremists, writes regular policy papers and briefs and is advising the German and Austrian authorities in the areas of prevention and deradicalisation. She is member of the Monitoring Board of theBeratungsstelle „Radikalisierung“ with the German Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge and member of the team tasked with formulating the Austrian National Prevention Strategy. She holds a doctorate in political science from the University of St Andrews.
Vidhya Ramalingam
Vidhya Ramalingam is Director of Moonshot CVE, which develops innovative methods of response to extremism and community violence. She Research Associate of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS, University of Oxford), a Fellow of the German Institute for the Study of Radicalization and Deradicalization (GIRDS) and member of the Advisory Board of Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks). Previously she was Senior Fellow on Far-Right Extremism and Intolerance at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and Senior Research Fellow on Migration and Communities at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). In 2014, with support from the EC, she launched The Far-Right Extremism in Europe Initiative (The FREE Initiative) offering guidance and online learning for counter-extremism practitioners.
Kelly Simcock
Kelly Simcock is currently Director of Programme at the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Peace Foundation (UK) where she continues her frontline work but also plays a strategic role in developing programmes and activities. In this capacity Kelly played a major role in the’ Rethinking Radicalisation’ review and report for Manchester City Council. Kelly is also Co-chair of the European Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Youth, Families and Communities Working Group which promotes engagement with – and empowerment of – youth, communities and families as critical in the prevention of radicalisation and in guiding practitioners in developing de-radicalisation strategies.Kelly is currently an elected member of Manchester City Council.
Elisabeth Staksrud
Dr. Elisabeth Staksrud is deputy chair of the Norwegian National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH). Her research interests revolve around children and online risk, regulation and rights, online censorship and governance and research ethics. She is in the management group of the 33-country EU Kids Online project (www.eukidsonline.net) and a former Harvard Berkman Center Research Fellow. Recent books include Children in the Online World: Risk, Regulation, Rights (Ashgate, 2013) and Digital Mobbing (Kommuneforlaget, 2013). Dr Staksrud is a member of the Ethics sub-committee.
In addition to the Consortium Members and the International Advisory Group, DARE involves active partnerships with:
National Stakeholder Groups (NSGs) in each of the participating countries. NSGs include partners drawn from across academia (to help maintain and enhance the interdisciplinary approach of DARE), civil society groups (to enable reach into communities affected and interested in the focus of DARE), media practitioners (to facilitate broader take-up of key findings emerging from DARE) and a range of policy makers and practitioners (to incorporate wider areas of social policy that are impacted and, which in turn offer opportunities for better addressing radicalisation).
Young people as producers and users of DARE research findings and outputs. Young people are active agents in generating research findings as well as being part of the design of interventions emerging from DARE.
National Stakeholder Groups (NSGs) in each of the participating countries. NSGs include partners drawn from across academia (to help maintain and enhance the interdisciplinary approach of DARE), civil society groups (to enable reach into communities affected and interested in the focus of DARE), media practitioners (to facilitate broader take-up of key findings emerging from DARE) and a range of policy makers and practitioners (to incorporate wider areas of social policy that are impacted and, which in turn offer opportunities for better addressing radicalisation).
Young people as producers and users of DARE research findings and outputs. Young people are active agents in generating research findings as well as being part of the design of interventions emerging from DARE.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 725349
