A seminar on Deradicalisation in Europe by guest speaker Prof. Umut Kormut, Head of EU Funded Projects, Dept of Economics & Law, Glasgow Caledonian University.

Departing from the findings of the Horizon D.Rad project (H2020), this seminar will concentrate on 7 key points:

(i) radicalisation has nothing to do with particular states or regions – it can affect all kinds of polities, groups, publics, individuals;

(ii) there are both institutional and non-institutional actors of radicalisation. States themselves can also instrumentalise radicalisation;

(iii) radicalisation cannot be entrenched into a singular ideology or a belief system, and extremism is cancerous as it appears in multifarious shapes and processes;

(iv) it is more important to devise non-essentialising and case-independent foci to understand radicalisation that explore the multifarious nature of expressive politics and radicalised publics;

(v) radicalisation could be an everyday phenomenon to which everyone is prone

(vi) de-radicalisation approaches can intervene into mundane everyday settings using creative forms, role-play, game card, spatial ethnography, dance, expressive theatre, in order to make the “other” appear as an extension of the “self”;