Lianne Vostermans Editor

Tahir Abbas, FAcSS, is Professor of Criminology and Global Justice at Aston University, UK. He was formerly the Professor of Radicalisation Studies at Leiden University for Radicalisation Studies. His recent articles appear in journals such as Journal of Political Ideologies, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK), Abbas works at the intersection of security, identity, and social change in contemporary Europe.

Lianne Vostermans is Senior Researcher at OpenHorizon (Norway) and Research Fellow at Leiden University, Netherlands. Her research examines the dynamics of (violent) social and political mobilisation, with particular attention to how emotions, identity, ideology, religion, organisational networks, and opportunity structures interact. She is the author of Beyond Faith and Fury: Rethinking ‘Religious Violence’ in the Lebanese Civil War, which is forthcoming with IB Tauris.

Richard McNeil-Willson is Lecturer of Global Muslim Studies at the Alwaleed Centre, Islamic and Middle East Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. He specialises in critical approaches to counterterrorism and counterextremism, including research on contentious activism, Islamophobia and state repression in a European context. He is also the co-editor of the Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience (2023) with Anna Triandafyllidou.