The 2025 AVERT International Research Symposium is an in-person event taking place on 24-26 November 2025 at Deakin University’s Deakin Downtown Campus, Melbourne, Australia. Overseas presenters can register to present online via Zoom.
This year, AVERT is collaborating with VOX-Pol and the Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) Conference to deliver this year’s Symposium: Signal or noise? Navigating the changing nature of violent extremism online.
More information and how to submit a proposal can be found on the AVERT website.
About the Symposium
The pace and scale of technological development is expanding the ways propaganda is disseminated and the types of people and groups who are vulnerable to violent extremism. At the same time, emergent online violent extremist subcultures and movements are becoming ever more cross-platform, transnational, and normalised. Consequently, the way practitioners, policymakers, and scholars conceptualise terrorism and violent extremism online is changing as the harms stemming from online radicalisation expand beyond performative violence, and the lines between antisocial radicalism and violent extremism are blurred. These shifting dynamics make it harder to distinguish meaningful threats (‘signal’) from background activity (‘noise’) online. This necessitates better methods for threat assessment, prevention, and the targeting of effective interventions.
Keynote speaker: Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education at the American University in Washington, DC, where she is also the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL).
About AVERT
The Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism (AVERT) Research Network is a multidisciplinary multi-institutional research initiative based in Melbourne, Australia 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.