3rd season (In english only):
podcast about the prevention of violent extremism
Welcome to the third season of our podcast series at CPN-PREV, the Canadian Practitioner’s Network for the Prevention of Extremist Violence. First, we want to thank you, our listeners, for being with us, season after season. Your engagement and commitment remind us why these conversations matter. This season, we are delighted to welcome inspiring practitioners, researchers, clinicians, and policymakers. Join us as we explore how dialogue can lead to concrete and ethical actions to achieve real change.
Episode 4: The PEER Approach and Bringing Your Personal Self to Prevention Work
Zeina Ismail-Allouche sits down with Melanie Bania, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Safer Communities (CCFSC), to discuss what it truly means to build safer communities. Not through enforcement alone, but through prevention, equity, and authentic human connection.
Listen to them explore:
CCFSC’s mandate and how it looks at safety from a balanced and intersectoral perspective of incorporating prevention, intervention, and local support
The PEER approach — Prevention, Equity, Engagement, and Relationship — and how these foundational principles guide the Centre’s work on the ground.
The importance of reconciling personal and professional engagement and why bringing your whole self to prevention work is a strength.
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Episode 3: Fieldwork with Foreign Fighters and the Evolving Landscape of Prevention in Canada
Zeina Ismail-Allouche welcomes Amarnath Amarasingam for an open and enthralling discussion about what it means to research violent extremism from the inside.
Listen to:
How Dr. Amarasingam’s own refugee history fleeing civil war in Sri Lanka, and his positionality as a person of color, opened unexpected doors to fieldwork with active foreign fighters in Syria.
The complex and deeply personal motivations that drove Westerners from Canada, the UK and beyond to join foreign militant groups.
How Canada’s prevention and intervention landscape has matured over the past decade, and why a law-enforcement-only response is no longer sufficient.
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Episode 2: Canada’s Approach to Preventing Radicalization to Violence
In this foundational episode, Ghayda Hassan sits down with Robert Burley, Executive Director of the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, and Nicole Fournier-Sylvester, Acting Manager of Engagement, for an in-depth conversation on the Centre’s mandate, priorities, and role within the Government of Canada’s broader strategy to prevent radicalization to violence. Together, they discuss :
What the Canada Centre is and why it was created.
How the Government of Canada approaches the prevention of radicalization to violence at the national level.
How the Canada Centre contributes to and collaborates within the global prevention landscape.
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Episode 1: Emerging Trends and the Future of Prevention
To open our third season, Ghayda Hassan is joined by Louis Audet-Gosselin and Marc-André Argentino, Senior Research Advisors at the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence. Together, they explore :
How research conducted at the Canada Centre informs national prevention strategies and supports practitioners and policymakers.
The emerging trends and evolving dynamics shaping the landscape of radicalization to violence today.
The ethical complexities of studying and responding to radicalization and violent extremism in polarized and high-risk environments.
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