Policymakers and practitioners have been far slower to recognise the evolving nature of the threat and mobilise consensus and resources to respond to it. They have been even slower than that to adopt these new technologies to carry out their work, or even leverage them to do so impactfully. This is for a number of reasons: democratic processes, competing funding priorities, a generational gap, desire for clear evidence and data so as to make decisions accountably, absence of foresight scanning, lack of multistakeholder structures, and general risk aversion.

To keep pace with (violent) extremists and terrorist organisations and get ahead of them by creating the conditions for evidence-based prevention and engineering safety by design, it is necessary to review new and emerging technologies. We must consider their current or potential future use and exploitation by extremists. And we must consider their positive use in prevention, including through removing the barriers to technology adoption and innovation. We must also recognise that many of these new technologies will impact all work across the multistakeholder spectrum involved in P/CVE, and therefore consider the range of application by these different users.

This webinar builds on the small-scale expert meeting on the same topic, which takes place on 26 March 2024. The main outcomes of that meeting will be shared during the webinar. Guiding questions for the webinar are:

The target audience for this meeting are all P/CVE practitioners who are interested in technological developments and how they impact their work field.

If you have any questions related to this webinar, please feel free to reach out to Alwyn Voogd or Jonathan Russell.