The AHRC is co-funding this £2.5 million ESRC initiative with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. This investment is part of the wider research agenda of the Research Councils. It is expected that the initiative will build on the ESRC's New Security Challenges programme and may complement the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society programme and the AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities programme.
The aim of the initiative is to produce an informed and critical assessment of the diverse causes of 'radicalisation'. It is expected that two kinds of projects will be funded. The first will examine social, political and religious dynamics in and across particular countries and regions; the second will concentrate on thematic issues that cut across geographically defined regions and wil provide comparisons with different forms of violent and non-violent movements.
Professor Stuart Croft of the University of Warwick is acting as academic co-ordinator of the initiative, which is being administered by ESRC. For full details of the initiative, please see the ESRC website.
The closing date for applications to this programme was 12 April 2007.