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Examining the Paradigm of Preventing Violent Extremism in Light of UN Efforts

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Convention Date:
29-03-2017

This seminar aims to initiate a debate on the nature of current efforts aiming at Preventing Violent Extremism and try to explore the conditions for ensuring that these efforts do not undermine human rights, including the Palestinian right to resist occupation in accordance with international law, and achieve its right to self-determination. It also aims at examining the possibility of a potential Palestinian contribution to establishing a more effective and efficient and human rights based response to violent extremism. The examination involves: deconstructing current hegemonic ideas of security-only approaches to the phenomenon, identifying the structural causes of violent extremism, exploring the dynamic relations between a real-democracy and security, and identifying key-experiences implemented by Palestinian resistance that contribute to the prevention of  violent extremism.

 

09:45

Registration

10:00

Global Efforts to Prevent Violent Extremism

 

Towards understanding Palestine’s positioning within the global landscape of violence and extremism

Mudar Kassis

 

Current UN Efforts on PVE and the SG Plan of Action

Stacy Weld-Blundell

 

In the debate about the real: towards a new understanding of key actors, radicalization, violent extremism and violence

Mar Benseny

11:45

Coffee Break

12:00

Context and Drivers of Violent Extremism in Palestine and Agenda for Action

 

Main vectors and factors of radicalization and Palestine

George Giacaman

 

An Agenda for Action: The Palestinian Contribution to the Debate on PVE

Munther Amireh