Professor Grossman traveled to South Africa to present at conference

AVERT Convener, Professor Michele Grossman recently travelled to Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa, as a guest of the Australian High Commission as part of their international expert exchange program in the area of countering violent extremism. Michele presented her recent work (conducted in collaboration with Canadian colleagues at Dalhousie University) on developing a measure for youth resilience to violent extremism in culturally diverse contexts at an intervention-focused workshop co-sponsored by ALPS-Resilience; at the Good Governance Africa conference on 'Extremisms in Africa', and to a specialist group of government personnel in South Africa's Dept. of International Relations and Cooperation.

Michele was also interviewed on CVE issues by Radio Islam South Africa during her stay, and you can hear the full interview here:

A professor and research chair in Diversity and Community resilience has told Radio Islam that it’s morally and ethically wrong to blame an entire community for their belief system or their identity for acts of extremism and terrorism.