Periodic Reporting for period 2 - GREASE (Radicalisation, Secularism and the Governance of Religion: Bringing together European and Asian Perspectives)
Período documentado: 2020-01-01 hasta 2021-03-31
Stemming from the in-depth research on different models of religious diversity governance carried out in the first year of the project, the country reports were turned into chapters for a Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity, which was published by Routledge in January 2021.
In parallel, project partners carried out the research necessary to assess the efforts by 12 countries to counter religious radicalisation and violence and to build resilience. Each case study analysed the religious diversity governance in the given country, state and non-state approaches to countering violent extremism, illustrated by one or more crisis events. Each report concludes with suggestions for good practices, some offering concrete recommendations. These various recommendations were selected, further articulated and organized in an International Handbook of Good Practices for Building Resilience Against Violent Religious Radicalisation.
We continued to run and moderate the educational materials that had been developed previously in the form of two Massive Open Online courses (MOOCs) on the Governing Religion: Global Challenges and Comparative Approaches; and on Religion, Radicalisation, Resilience; which are free and accessible tools to learn and reflect upon the compelling issues of religious diversity, resilience, and violent radicalisation. We also continue to publish blog articles on current events connected to the GREASE research on openDemocracy’s Global Extremes.
Additionally, two documentary films that bring to the screen people’s first-hand experiences with religious belonging, national identity, and radicalization, were finalised and are now publicly available as teaching resources both on a dedicated website as well as on YouTube.
Consortium meetings, conference presentations, and the planning of 4 Online Regional Dialogue Workshops all carried on in virtual form given the ongoing travel restrictions caused by the pandemic.
The visualizations on the GREASE indicators constitute an additional tool to make the research results more accessible to civil society and stakeholders.
Between May and June 2021 four Online Regional Dialogue Workshops are taking place involving a range of experts, practitioners and policy-makers, and we expect to be able to conduct 2 or 3 further in person meetings.