(MENAFN- The Peninsula) QNAThe international conference on studying the causes of extremism kicked off here yesterday, organised by the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) at Qatar University.
The two-day conference gathers international experts, scientists and decision-makers from a number of countries around the world.
The conferences agenda includes five sessions, which are going to be on the role of evidence-based policy in combating extremism, assessing risk factors for this phenomenon, ways to control and combat it, processes of extremism and flexibility, with new approaches to measuring extremism and intolerance.
The organisers said that the conference is the first-of-its-kind in the Middle East and is part of Qatar's ongoing efforts to strengthen the fight against terrorism in bilateral and multilateral forums.
Dr. Hassan Rashid Al Derham, President of Qatar University, said in a speech at the beginning of the conference that experts will discuss over two days the factors and risks of extremism and the mechanisms to address this phenomenon as well as assessment of the international efforts to monitor and combat radicalism and violent extremism, noting that these scientific events are in line with the continuous efforts exerted by the State of Qatar to promote progress in combating extremism and terrorism in various international forums.
He said that the conference is a platform for launching an important new research project by the Institute of Social and Economic Survey Research in partnership with a number of research centres and distinguished policy institutes around the world to develop an international index to measure the level of extremism leading to violence and study its determinants and track them over time and space,with a view to having access to international data on the phenomenon to be available to researchers and policy makers.
Addressing the opening session also , Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Abdullah Al Ansari, Chairman of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee, underscored the importance of this conference and its role in enhancing the State of Qatar's efforts in confronting terrorism. This indicator will be an essential reference for measuring this phenomenon. '
For her part, Michele Coninsx, Executive Director of the Executive Directorate of Counter-Terrorism at the UN Security Council, commended the conference, which, she said it examines the causes of extremism, stressing the need for a practical and thoughtful approach to combating the phenomenon of terrorism and studying the causes of some tendency towards this dangerous scourge and the real motives for their involvement in the ranks of terrorists.
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