Professor Tahir Abbas, FAcSS, holds the Chair in Radicalisation Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University in The Hague. He is the Scientific Coordinator of the H2020 RIA DRIVE project (Determining multilevel-led causes and testing intervention designs to reduce radicalisation, extremism, and political violence in North-Western Europe through social inclusion).
His recent books include Islamophobia and Radicalisation: The Dutch case (Springer, with L Welten, 2022), Countering Violent Extremism: The Global Deradicalization Agenda (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), Islamophobia and Radicalisation: A Vicious Cycle (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2019), and Contemporary Turkey in Conflict: Ethnicity, Islam, and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Abbas has recently been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics (2017–2019) and New York University (2015–2016).
