On Tuesday, May 5 from 6-7 p.m. CST, tune in for a joint AVERT–NCITE webinar, Introducing the Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) Database: Examining Life-Course Factors, Mobilization Indicators, Motivational Drivers and Patterns of Harm. 

NCITE's Bettina Rottweiler, Ph.D., will present her systematic analysis of life-course factors, mobilization indicators, motivational drivers, and patterns of harm directly relevant to prevention, risk assessment, and early intervention practice in NVE.

About the Presenters

Bettina Rottweiler, Ph.D.

Dr. Bettina Rottweiler is an associate research professor at the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE), where she leads the research portfolio on youth mobilization to violent extremism, including nihilistic violent extremism (NVE). Her research focuses on life-course factors, mobilization indicators, and the pathways through which young people become involved in violent extremism.

She is also a research fellow on the Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood, where she uses longitudinal data to identify developmental risk and protective factors associated with support for violent extremism among children and adolescents. Her work focuses on producing scientific evidence that can directly inform policy and practice, and she collaborates closely with international countering violent extremism practitioner teams.

She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals. Her research has been funded by the European Union, the UK Home Office, CREST, the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), UK Counter Terrorism Policing, the National Crime Agency, UK Research and Innovation, and Public Safety Canada.

AVERT

The Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism (AVERT) Research Network is a multidisciplinary multi-institutional research initiative based in Melbourne, Australia and supported by Deakin University’s Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI).

The Network is composed of highly engaged and critically informed social science, humanities and multidisciplinary research academics from a variety of universities and research institutions who believe in conducting meaningful evidence-based research for the public good.