DS0901 - Sécurité des citoyens, lutte contre le crime et le terrorisme

VIOLENCE AND MILITANT RADICALISM IN FRANCE - A SHS (human and social science) MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS – VIORAMIL

Submission summary

The VIORAMIL project addresses the issues of the “violent radicalization of individuals or groups of individuals” that constitutes one of the elements of the first of our main areas of focus : “Security of the citizens, crime and terrorism prevention” of the Challenge 9 “Freedom and security of Europe, its citizens and its residents”. It intends to explore the violence and the militant radicalisation in France from the eighties until today, through an innovative multidisciplinary analysis combining the views of historians, political analysts, sociologists, media specialists and lawyers. This cross-disciplinary study also addresses representations of this radical violence in the opinion and the media. Finally it considers the evolution of their management, upstream as well as downstream (prevention campaigns, police treatment, legal follow-up) by public authorities that have to combine efficiency targets with respect for the relevant legal framework. Within SHS, the set of themes of radicalism lends itself to the combined approach. The paragraph introducing Challenge 9 moreover emphasises the necessary interdisciplinary nature of any reflection concerning global security and calls for an “increased participation from the main players in SHS research”. The VIORAMIL project answers this call.

In the spirit of our first focus of the Challenge 9, the project wishes to participate in the strengthening “of the security and of the fight against terrorism” in “identifying and preventing the risks and threats” posed by “the violent radicalization of individual and groups of individuals”. Faced with the risk of the militant violence emanating from different players (small extremists groups, pro-independence groups, religious extremist movements etc.) at various levels (from the overflowing of demonstrations to the planning of attacks), the State must identify these threats and develop strategies of prevention and response. The VIORAMIL project answers this expectation by mobilising, in an original multidisciplinary approach and in a logical collaboration with public authorities, the scientific expertise available through SHS academics specialising in political violence. The final production (unpublished material on militant violence expressed in the form of statistical boards/graphs/maps, analysis of the concerned organizations and of the determiners of the violence in a socio-economic context, political configuration, historical inheritances, media games, gender codes, subtle study of the evolution of the police control and of the legal framework over thirty years) would allow to improve the techniques of detection and management of violent radicalization. It would also allow the definition of models allowing a retreat from violence and militant radicalization that could inspire the social players and the political decision-makers. In accordance with the introductory charter of the Challenge 9, the VIORAMIL project associates “academics partners and end users”, here the public. We have secured the partnership of the National Institute of the High Studies of the Security and Justice (INHESJ), a national public administrative body operating under the supervisions of the Prime Minister that intervenes in the areas of training, studies, strategic monitoring and analysis regarding internal security and justice.

Project coordination

François AUDIGIER (Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire)

The author of this summary is the project coordinator, who is responsible for the content of this summary. The ANR declines any responsibility as for its contents.

Partner

CRULH Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire
CREM Centre de Recherche sur les Médiations
CESDIP Centre de Recherche Sociologique sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales
CESSP Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique
INHESJ Institut National des Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité et de la Justice

Help of the ANR 301,966 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project: January 2016 - 42 Months

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