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LATEST NEWSSince last spring, our team at CPN-PREV has been growing significantly! We therefore decided the time was right to shine the spotlight on the latest additions to our team.
We are excited to welcome Christiane (Chris) Ndedi Essombe (Ph.D.), Théodore Ownby and Neslihan Sriram-Uzundal!
We are pleased to welcome Evelise Galvão de Carvalho as a Research Visitor at CPN-PREV, jointly hosted with Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), through a Mitacs Globalink Research Award (GRA).
Building on the momentum created by the Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) capacity development workshops held in Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island) and Halifax (Nova Scotia) in March 2026, CPN-PREV, in collaboration with the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, continued its efforts in Atlantic Canada by offering a two-day interdisciplinary training workshop in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on June 18 and 19, 2026.
On May 28, CPN-PREV’s Director and Founder, Ghayda Hassan, alongside Associate Director, zeina ismail-allouche, co-presented a keynote at the annual BGC (Boys and Girls Clubs) conference in Winnipeg.
LATEST MEDIACPN-PREV’s longtime collaborator and partner, David Yuzva Clement, recently co-authored Social Work and Countering Violent Extremism: Case Management, Direct Practice and Multi-Sectoral Collaboration, a book aimed at social work audiences that introduces them “[…] to the current field of countering violent extremism (CVE), offering an international perspective on its theories, approaches, and prevention and intervention practices.”
Our Associate Director, Zeina Ismail-Allouche, recently published a new op-ed exploring how, in the wake of the recent killing of a young Iraqi girl by two boys, violence affecting children, or perpetrated by them, cannot be understood in isolation from the social and cultural contexts in which they grow up.
Notre directrice Ghayda Hassan a récemment pris part à un épisode du balado Cercle Démos de l'Université de Montréal portant sur la signification de la polarisation, ses manifestations dans différents contextes – notamment en éducation et dans l’espace public – ainsi que ses effets sur la démocratie et la justice sociale.
Notre directrice générale, Ghayda Hassan, était invitée à l’émission spéciale de ICI RDI pour discuter de la récente fusillade à Tumbler Ridge en Colombie-Britannique.
UPCOMING EVENTSHosted by the Conflict and Resilience Research Institute Canada, this two-day event brings together communities whose histories are shaped by displacement, war, colonial violence, persecution, racism, exile, and intergenerational trauma.
The goal is not to compare suffering, but to listen, recognize shared humanity, and build practical pathways toward coexistence.
« Le Congrès RH 2026 s’annonce comme une édition incontournable pour s’inspirer, échanger et repenser les enjeux qui façonnent le monde du travail d’aujourd’hui et de demain. »
How can practitioners share knowledge and best practices across borders in disengagement and exit work?
On October 6, 2026, the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Prevention of Radicalisation and Promotion of Democracy (IZRD e.V.) brings together practitioners and experts from Germany and Canada for a virtual professional exchange. The event is organised as part of the joint project dist[ex] – Development of a Network for Disengagement and Exit Work, in cooperation with the Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Extremist Violence (CPN-PREV).
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