Political Violence in the Middle East. Interview with Erik Skare

Erik Skare (1)

1 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

Erik Skare is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po, and will be part of the PREVEX project (Preventing Violent Extremism in the Balkans and the MENA: Strengthening Resilience in Enabling Environments). Before joining CERI, Skare was a doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo where he wrote his PhD thesis on the history of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). His forthcoming books are A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, Awareness, and Revolution in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Islamist Writings on Resistance and Religion (I.B. Tauris). He answers our questions on his research and on PREVEX, the EU-funded programme he works with here at the CERI. Interview by Miriam Perier

Keywords: Middle East; Violence; Extremism; Islam; Borders; Collective mobilizations

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Political science

Erik Skare. Political Violence in the Middle East. Interview with Erik Skare. 2020. ⟨hal-03391858⟩