Dr. Amarasingam is the author of Pain, Pride, and Politics: Sri Lankan Tamil Activism in Canada (2015), and the co-editor of Stress Tested: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Canadian National Security (2021) and Sri Lanka: The Struggle for Peace in the Aftermath of War (2016). He has also published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, has presented papers at over 100 national and international conferences, and has written for The New York Times, The Monkey Case, The Washington Post, CNN, Politico, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs. He has been interviewed on CNN, PBS Newshour, CBC, BBC, and a variety of other media outlets. He is an experienced field researcher, having conducted hundreds of interviews for his PhD dissertation on social movement activism, organizational dynamics, and youth identity in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, as well as over 50 interviews with former fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) throughout the former war zones of Sri Lanka in 2013 and 2014. He has also conducted field research in Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Somalia, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine. He co-directed a study on foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, based at the University of Waterloo, for six years during which he conducted numerous social media and in-person interviews with current and former foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, as well as parents and close friends of those who travelled to fight. He has also conducted several interviews with former extremists on the far-right and conspiratorial movements.

In addition to presenting at numerous national and international fora, Dr. Davies has also presented at briefings for the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (“E” Division), the Canadian Security Intelligence Services, and Public Safety Canada, and has testified on national security issues in front of both the Canadian Parliament, as well as the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defense.

She organizes and moderates the C-REX webinar series ‘Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics’. She was awarded the FRQSC Relève Étoile Paul-Gérin-Lajoie prize for the empirical contributions of her article published in the Canadian Review of Sociology and the Léon-Dion prize for the best article published in Politique et Sociétés in 2018-2019.

Dr. Hassan is a member of the RCMP Management Advisory Board and was a member of the expert advisory group on online safety at the Ministry of Canadian Heritage. Additionally, she is a researcher and senior clinical consultant at the SHERPA-Research and Action on Radicalisation and Social Suffering (SHERPA-RAPS) at the CIUSSS Center-West of Montreal. Her systematic reviews, research and clinical activities are centred around four main areas of clinical cultural psychology: 1) Social suffering, intercommunity relations, hate, racism and extremist violence; 2) Intervention in family violence & cultural diversity; 2) Identity, belonging and mental health of children and adolescents from ethnic and religious minorities; 3) working with vulnerable immigrants and refugees.

Dr. Hofmann’s current research interests are focused on five broad areas: terrorism and political violence, charismatic leadership, right-wing extremism, apocalyptical and millenarian groups, and criminal & illicit networks. David is a mixed methodologist, with a particular interest in social network analysis.

Michael strives to use behavioral science to counter violent extremism. To do this, he draws upon his academic training and knowledge as well as his experience working at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and at Public Safety Canada. Michael completed his PhD in social psychology at McGill University, where he researched how individuals legitimize the use of terrorism.

Dr. Kitchen was co-director of the Canadian Network for Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS) (through 2023) and serves on the executive of its successor, the Canadian Network for the Study of Security, Extremism and Society (CANSES) where she is co-lead of the working group on early career researchers for CANSES. She has published extensively on gender and national security, heroism and global politics, IR pedagogy, mega-event security, Canadian-American security relations, and transatlantic security relations.

Dr. Thompson served as Associate Director of the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS) from program inception to close (September 2012 – May 2023) and co-chaired the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) Research Advisory Committee from 2018 to 2023.

Her recent and ongoing research focuses on hate crime, extremist violence, P/CVE programming, community reporting thresholds and preferences in the context of hate crime and violent extremism, and the evaluation of violence prevention programs and policy. Her research involves mixed-methods and community-based participatory methodologies, deep engagement with security practitioners, and diverse knowledge mobilization activities to facilitate real-world impact on policy and society.

She has been involved as a Principal Investigator on multi-year, multi-site research projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Public Safety Canada, Defence Research and Development Canada, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Thompson has presented her research findings at a range of domestic and international academic and practitioner conferences and has briefed high-level government and security officials on issues related to hate crime, violent extremism, P/CVE and program evaluation.