Issues up close: Facing radicalization and extremism in times of societal unrest – new threats, old practices?On 14 September 2022, Lorne Dawson (Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo), Sophia Moskalenko (research fellow at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (NC-START), and Kees van den Bos (Professor of Social Psychology of radicalization and Empirical Law) discussed the rise, development, and decline of various extremist movements. This episode consists of three individual lectures on the topic, recorded during this event. Terrorism and Political Violence is a podcast series produced by the Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence (TPV) in collaboration with Utrecht University. This podcast is comprised of two types of episodes. In Issues up close, editors of the TPV journal will discuss a range of subjects from prominent issues covered by the journal such as the history of terrorism, its causes and consequences, questions concerning political violence and major global trends and threats. In our Book Talks episodes, editors will host conversations with experts from across the field to discuss their current work. More information about this series, and other episodes, can be found at www.uu.nl/en/tpv. With special thanks to Pieter Veen for the soundtrack.