Launch of International Research Project PAVE

On Wednesday, 19 February 2020, the Horizon 2020 PAVE project (Preventing and Addressing Violent Extremism through Community Resilience in the Balkans and MENA) was launched in Berlin, coordinated by the Berghof Foundation and in which University of Sarajevo participates as a partner.

The new EU research project PAVE aims to tackle the global issue of radicalisation by examining its root causes and driving factors. Based on a comparative assessment of local communities with features of vulnerability or resilience to violent extremism across seven case study countries, the 13 international partner institutions will develop concrete policy proposals to inform citizens and stakeholders within and beyond the regions under study.

Within the three-year project lifetime, the interdisciplinary research team will develop innovative training tools and guidelines to support agents of community resilience (including religious leaders, mayors, educators, civil society organisations, women and youth), and will support mutual learning on best practices engaging stakeholders, community leaders, policy-makers and the wider public in the EU, MENA and Balkans.