CERA Austria (Conference on Extremism and Radicalization)

On November 24, EICTP participated, officially the first time with active parts, in the Conference on Extremism and Radicalization Austria (CERA) of the Documentation Center for Political Islam that was held for the second time. This year’s conference took place under the title “Dis/Continuities in Contemporary Islamism” with more than 60 participants and the event was moderated by Köksal Baltaci. The topics discussed included social and ideological developments in Political Islam, questions of religious freedom and global trends in Islamism under the panel headings of “Flexibility and Consistency in Ideology”, “Important Legal Cases Concerning the Freedom of Religion”, “Political Islam in the Realm of the Social”, “Global Trends in Islamism”.