Quebec universities launch ‘world first’ UNESCO anti-radicalization chair
MONTREAL — Quebec’s new UNESCO chair on the prevention of radicalization and violent extremism is the first of its kind in the world, say members of three universities who launched the project Friday in Sherbrooke, Que.
The research centre will be directed by a team of professors from Concordia University, Universite de Sherbrooke and Universite du Quebec a Montreal.
Co-director David Morin said the chair’s mission is to create a “pole of excellence” that will bring together experts in both research and field work.
“(The goal) is to be able to develop programs, to evaluate them and to support the political decision-makers and the stakeholders in the field on the subject of prevention of radicalization,” said Morin, a professor at the Universite de Sherbrooke.