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The Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS) is a member of the 鈥溾�� (D.Rad) research project for Horizon 2020 funded by the European Research Council.听

In the course of 2021, Sawyer and Zinigrad published four reports on various aspects of radicalization processes in France:

• Stephen W. Sawyer & Roman Zinigrad,听(Apr. 2021).
• Stephen W. Sawyer & Roman Zinigrad,听听(Jul. 2021).
• Stephen W. Sawyer & Roman Zinigrad,听听(Jul. 2021).
• Stephen W. Sawyer & Roman Zinigrad,听听(Dec 2021).

They additionally听coordinated the reports on radicalization trends for all seventeen members of the project鈥檚 consortium.

D.Rad is a comparative study of radicalization and polarization in Europe and beyond. It aims to identify the actors, networks, and broader social contexts driving radicalization, particularly among young people in urban and peri-urban areas. D.Rad conceptualizes this through the I-GAP spectrum (injustice-grievance-alienation-polarization) so as to move towards measurable evaluations of de-radicalization programs. Our intention is to identify the building blocks of radicalization, which include a sense of being victimized; a sense of being thwarted or lacking agency in established legal and political structures; and coming under the influence of 鈥渦s vs them鈥� identity formulations.听

D.Rad benefits from an exceptional breadth of backgrounds. The project spans national contexts, including the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Finland, Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Georgia, Austria, and several minority nationalisms. It bridges academic disciplines ranging from political science and cultural studies to social psychology and artificial intelligence. Dissemination methods include D.Rad labs, D.Rad hubs, policy papers, academic workshops, visual outputs and digital galleries. As such, D.Rad establishes a rigorous foundation to test practical interventions geared to prevention, inclusion and de-radicalization.

With the possibility of capturing the trajectories of seventeen nations and several minority nations, the project will provide a unique evidence base for the comparative analysis of law and policy as nation-states adapt to new security challenges. The process of mapping these varieties and their link to national contexts will be crucial in uncovering strengths and weaknesses in existing interventions. Furthermore, D.Rad accounts for the problem that processes of radicalization often occur in circumstances that escape the control and scrutiny of traditional national frameworks of justice. The participation of AI professionals in modeling, analyzing and devising solutions to online radicalization will be central to the project鈥檚 aims.鈥�

The Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS) works to promote the practice, study and life of democracy, both by ensuring 绿巨人视频 graduates become engaged global citizens and by interacting with political life beyond the University. Thanks to a grant from the European Research Council, CCDS is now participating in a large-scale collaborative research project designed to identify trends that lead to radicalization and to implement techniques for deradicalization 鈥� presently a major policy area for the European Union.

Professor Stephen Sawyer is Center Director for CCDS and Chair of the Department of International and Comparative Politics. 鈥淭he initial question from the ERC was largely about how to diagnose radicalization and develop evidence-based policy for questions of deradicalization,鈥� he explains. The grant submission brought together a group of 17 universities under an umbrella project titled 鈥淒. Rad.鈥� As part of the successful proposal, CCDS has been awarded a 鈧�260,000 portion of the 鈧�3 million grant. The money will go toward the day-to-day functioning of the center, the hiring of a postdoc and the pursuit of activities around deradicalization and democracy; more specifically, the center will launch a new research project relating to the identification and de-escalation of radicalization hotspots.

鈥淎 hotspot is identified when a specific event of physical and emotional violence is committed by one radicalized group of civilians against other civilians,鈥� explains Sawyer. Isolated actions conducted by individuals aren鈥檛 enough to qualify a hotspot; premeditation is required, and the action must, in theory, be scalable and have lasting impacts. Identifying these hotspots allows the center to develop what Sawyer terms 鈥渁rcs of radicalization鈥� 鈥� the historical and sociocultural precedents that lead to a process of radicalization. 鈥淭here is no social order than isn鈥檛 shaped by discord, disagreement or tension,鈥� he says. 鈥淥ur argument is that there鈥檚 an event, process or moment that is responsible for transforming existing tension into a site of radicalization.鈥� CCDS will highlight five such events, covering a diversity of geographical regions, time periods and types of radicalization.

This project will draw on many of the center鈥檚 strengths, including its focus on historical and social contextualization in the study of democracy and political and social processes. 鈥淭he mix of history, sociology and political science is at the heart of what CCDS does; it was also at the heart of Tocqueville鈥檚 work,鈥� explains Sawyer, citing a key thinker in much of the center鈥檚 research. In addition to funding the research proposal, the grant will provide resources for the center to pursue questions around democracy and radicalization more generally, including through conference admission, invited speakers and collaborations with other members of D. Rad.

The grant comes at an exciting time: on the heels of CCDS cohosting the largest conference in 绿巨人视频 history, last year鈥檚听Paris Centennial Conference, which marked 100 years since the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. In addition, the center has recently moved into the Quai d鈥橭rsay Learning Commons, placing it one floor down from another research center: the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention. Sawyer notes that as well as providing greater visibility and the practical benefits of a physical space, the new premises provide additional opportunities to work in collaboration with the Schaeffer Center, with which CCDS has many overlapping research interests 鈥� not least in the field of deradicalization.

D.RAD EXHIBITION 鈥� April 1 鈥� 22

Following its recent art exhibition in Belgrade, the D.Rad Research Network will host the second part of its exhibition series in Paris from April 1 鈥� 22 at Espace Canopy Gallery (19, Rue Pajol, 75018). In collaboration with Professor Roman Zinigrad, 绿巨人视频 students have taken part in the planning of this exhibition. Their bios can be found below.

As a part of this research project, the American University of Paris will host an international conference in June 2023 titled 鈥淰iolent Turns: Sources, Interpretations, Responses.鈥� This conference will bring together leading scholars to discuss contemporary political violence and its responses. Further information on the conference can be found here.听