TETT 2018
Communities as Agents and Spaces for Counter-radicalization Education
July 9, 2018
9:30 – 10:00 Welcome by Dr. M. Ayaz Naseem,
Convenor TETT Symposia
Dr. Sarita Kennedy
Chair, Dept. of Education
Concordia University
10:00-10:45 Plenary Address
Dr. Jacob Udo Udo Jacob
Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, American University of Nigeria
Universities and Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE): Rethinking the Stakes, Reimagining Community and Agency
10:45-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 11:45 Session 1: Knowledge Communities Against Radicalization
Chair: Alicia Piechowiak
Dr. Trinidad Rico, Rutgers University
Resisting extremism in cultural heritage discourses
Dr. Anila Asghar, McGill University (Via Skype/Zoom)
Theoretical perspectives on youth radicalization
Dr. Adeela Arshad-Ayaz, Concordia University
Creating counter-radicalization spaces
11:45-12:30 Critical engagement
12:30-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-2:45 Session 2: Arts communities countering radicalization
Chair: Adeela Arshad-Ayaz
Mariya Sajjad, University College London, London (Via Skype/Zoom)
Art and the City: Creating new spaces for (dis) engaging with extremism and radicalization: Observations on the Pakistani Society
Ayisha Shahnawaz, Oriental School of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
Countering radicalization through arts: Perspectives from a frontline state
Leigh Kinch-Pedrossa, Confabulation, Montreal
Storytelling and counter-radicalization
2:45-3:30 Critical engagement
3:30-3:45 COFFEE BREAK
3:45-4:30 Session 3: building counter-radicalization communities of interest
Chair: Jenny Svetec
Alicia Piechowiak, Concordia University
Shifting strategies to counter-radicalization: A comparative analysis of Indonesia and France
Irfan AimLee, Executive Director, PeaceGeneration, Bandung, Indonesia
Boardgame for Peace: Preventing Violent Extremism Through Creative Approaches
Michelle Savard, Concordia University
Interrupting the Cycle of Violence with Critical Pedagogy to Facilitate the Reintegration of Formerly Abducted Young Mothers in Northern Uganda.
4:30-5:15 Critical engagement
July 10, 2-18
9:00-10:00 Plenary Address
Dr. John Portelli
Ontario Institute of Studies in Education
University of Toronto
The radicalization of neoliberalism: ‘democratic racism’
10:00-10:30 Session 1: Creating pedagogical communities against radicalization
Chair: Ayaz Naseem
Dr. Sarah Bernstein (Via Skype/Zoom)
Executive Director, Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue, Jerusalem
Educating for Change: encouraging conflictual discussions in the classroom as an approach to reducing violent extremism
Dr. Kim Galindo, Texas A&M Qatar
Learning from Nature: Bio-complexity and its implications for the reduction of extremism, terror and trauma.
Dr. Zohreh Eslami and Khatereh Esteki, Texas A&M, Qatar (Via Skype/Zoom)
Counter Radicalization Pedagogy: Instructional Strategies and Challenges
Dr. Zrinka Stimac, Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, Germany (Via Skype/Zoom)
Silent ‘radicalization’ in confessional religious education?
10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45-11:30 Critical Engagement
11:30-1:00 PM Session 2: Presentation of pedagogical deliverables developed at the Concordia International Graduate Summer School on Counter Radicalization Education
1:00 PM-2:30 LUNCH
2:30-3:15 Session 3: Dismantling and learning from the “other”
Chair: Wendy Sun
Dr. Kim Galindo, Texas A&M Qatar
Learning from Nature: Bio-complexity and its implications for the reduction of extremism, terror and trauma.
Dr. Naved Bakali, Tabah Foundation, Abu Dhabi
Problematizing the notion of violent extremism as existing in the realm of ‘Otherness’ through a comparative analysis of far-Right and Muslim religious extremism
Oksana Dognon, University of Burgundy, France and
Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA
Free Speech and 'Terroristic' Messages
3:15-4:00 Critical engagement
4:00-4:15 Coffee Break
4:15-5:00 Session 4: Community Engagement as CLEAR
Chair: Alicia Piechowiak
John Neysmith, World Scouts Committee
World scouting as a counter-radicalization community
Felix Attard, Community Activist, ACORN Montreal
Finding a home: radicalization and the search for belonging
Leen Abu Seif, Montreal
AL Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: An Informed Counter-radicalization
5:00-5:30 Critical engagement
July 11, 2018
9:00-10:00 Session 1: Country perspectives: Pakistan
Chair: Ayaz Naseem
Maria Khwaja, Cambridge University, UK
Classrooms as Spaces for Positive Change: Understanding symbolic ideologies in two Muslim settings to initiate praxis for combating extremism -
Mr. Imran Azhar, CEO Azcorp Entertainment Private Limited, Pakistan (Via Skype/Zoom)
TBD
Sanee Sajjad, School of oriental and African Studies, London, UK (Via Skype/Zoom)
Re-thinking the State Infrastructure: Engaging government education system as “the new space” to construct the narrative for countering the radical thought-The case of Pakistan.
Mr. Nadeem Ghazi, Director, World Learning Educational Society, Pakistan
Peace through connecting Classroom
10:00-10:45 Critical engagement
10:45-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:45 Session 2: Pedagogical interventions for CLEAR
Chair: Dr. Hassan Bashir
Dr. Hassan Bashir, Texas A&M, Qatar
Extremism as an Ethical Dilemma: Re-visiting religiously motivated non-state militancy in global politics
Dr. Kawser Ahmad, University of Manitoba
Community-focused/based Counter Radicalization Projects: What Have we Learnt?
11:45-12:30 Critical engagement
12:30-12:45 Group chat about TETT 2019
12:45-13:00 Closing
Communities as Agents and Spaces for Counter-radicalization Education
July 9, 2018
9:30 – 10:00 Welcome by Dr. M. Ayaz Naseem,
Convenor TETT Symposia
Dr. Sarita Kennedy
Chair, Dept. of Education
Concordia University
10:00-10:45 Plenary Address
Dr. Jacob Udo Udo Jacob
Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, American University of Nigeria
Universities and Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE): Rethinking the Stakes, Reimagining Community and Agency
10:45-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 11:45 Session 1: Knowledge Communities Against Radicalization
Chair: Alicia Piechowiak
Dr. Trinidad Rico, Rutgers University
Resisting extremism in cultural heritage discourses
Dr. Anila Asghar, McGill University (Via Skype/Zoom)
Theoretical perspectives on youth radicalization
Dr. Adeela Arshad-Ayaz, Concordia University
Creating counter-radicalization spaces
11:45-12:30 Critical engagement
12:30-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-2:45 Session 2: Arts communities countering radicalization
Chair: Adeela Arshad-Ayaz
Mariya Sajjad, University College London, London (Via Skype/Zoom)
Art and the City: Creating new spaces for (dis) engaging with extremism and radicalization: Observations on the Pakistani Society
Ayisha Shahnawaz, Oriental School of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
Countering radicalization through arts: Perspectives from a frontline state
Leigh Kinch-Pedrossa, Confabulation, Montreal
Storytelling and counter-radicalization
2:45-3:30 Critical engagement
3:30-3:45 COFFEE BREAK
3:45-4:30 Session 3: building counter-radicalization communities of interest
Chair: Jenny Svetec
Alicia Piechowiak, Concordia University
Shifting strategies to counter-radicalization: A comparative analysis of Indonesia and France
Irfan AimLee, Executive Director, PeaceGeneration, Bandung, Indonesia
Boardgame for Peace: Preventing Violent Extremism Through Creative Approaches
Michelle Savard, Concordia University
Interrupting the Cycle of Violence with Critical Pedagogy to Facilitate the Reintegration of Formerly Abducted Young Mothers in Northern Uganda.
4:30-5:15 Critical engagement
July 10, 2-18
9:00-10:00 Plenary Address
Dr. John Portelli
Ontario Institute of Studies in Education
University of Toronto
The radicalization of neoliberalism: ‘democratic racism’
10:00-10:30 Session 1: Creating pedagogical communities against radicalization
Chair: Ayaz Naseem
Dr. Sarah Bernstein (Via Skype/Zoom)
Executive Director, Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue, Jerusalem
Educating for Change: encouraging conflictual discussions in the classroom as an approach to reducing violent extremism
Dr. Kim Galindo, Texas A&M Qatar
Learning from Nature: Bio-complexity and its implications for the reduction of extremism, terror and trauma.
Dr. Zohreh Eslami and Khatereh Esteki, Texas A&M, Qatar (Via Skype/Zoom)
Counter Radicalization Pedagogy: Instructional Strategies and Challenges
Dr. Zrinka Stimac, Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, Germany (Via Skype/Zoom)
Silent ‘radicalization’ in confessional religious education?
10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45-11:30 Critical Engagement
11:30-1:00 PM Session 2: Presentation of pedagogical deliverables developed at the Concordia International Graduate Summer School on Counter Radicalization Education
1:00 PM-2:30 LUNCH
2:30-3:15 Session 3: Dismantling and learning from the “other”
Chair: Wendy Sun
Dr. Kim Galindo, Texas A&M Qatar
Learning from Nature: Bio-complexity and its implications for the reduction of extremism, terror and trauma.
Dr. Naved Bakali, Tabah Foundation, Abu Dhabi
Problematizing the notion of violent extremism as existing in the realm of ‘Otherness’ through a comparative analysis of far-Right and Muslim religious extremism
Oksana Dognon, University of Burgundy, France and
Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA
Free Speech and 'Terroristic' Messages
3:15-4:00 Critical engagement
4:00-4:15 Coffee Break
4:15-5:00 Session 4: Community Engagement as CLEAR
Chair: Alicia Piechowiak
John Neysmith, World Scouts Committee
World scouting as a counter-radicalization community
Felix Attard, Community Activist, ACORN Montreal
Finding a home: radicalization and the search for belonging
Leen Abu Seif, Montreal
AL Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: An Informed Counter-radicalization
5:00-5:30 Critical engagement
July 11, 2018
9:00-10:00 Session 1: Country perspectives: Pakistan
Chair: Ayaz Naseem
Maria Khwaja, Cambridge University, UK
Classrooms as Spaces for Positive Change: Understanding symbolic ideologies in two Muslim settings to initiate praxis for combating extremism -
Mr. Imran Azhar, CEO Azcorp Entertainment Private Limited, Pakistan (Via Skype/Zoom)
TBD
Sanee Sajjad, School of oriental and African Studies, London, UK (Via Skype/Zoom)
Re-thinking the State Infrastructure: Engaging government education system as “the new space” to construct the narrative for countering the radical thought-The case of Pakistan.
Mr. Nadeem Ghazi, Director, World Learning Educational Society, Pakistan
Peace through connecting Classroom
10:00-10:45 Critical engagement
10:45-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:45 Session 2: Pedagogical interventions for CLEAR
Chair: Dr. Hassan Bashir
Dr. Hassan Bashir, Texas A&M, Qatar
Extremism as an Ethical Dilemma: Re-visiting religiously motivated non-state militancy in global politics
Dr. Kawser Ahmad, University of Manitoba
Community-focused/based Counter Radicalization Projects: What Have we Learnt?
11:45-12:30 Critical engagement
12:30-12:45 Group chat about TETT 2019
12:45-13:00 Closing