On August 20, 2025, the Organization for the Prevention of Violence (OPV) and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation hosted a full-day hate crime training workshop for University of Alberta Protective Services, alongside student and faculty supports.
Hate and hate-motivated incidents in Alberta continue to be a problem that needs addressing.
We surveyed over 1,300 Albertans and conducted interviews with over 75 community members to help us address the problem of hate in our province. This report summarizes our findings and recommendations.
Countries must determine how to manage the return of women and children from formerly ISIS-controlled territories. We propose a framework for supporting returning individuals operating across ‘5 Rs’: Repatriation, Resettlement, Reintegration, Rehabilitation, and Resilience. In this brief, we describe these 5R domains.
This report summarizes the scale and threat of hate, extremism, and terrorism within Alberta and Canada from 2019–2022.
Political science adjunct professor John McCoy and his class on terrorism in the modern world have created a video meant to question racist assumptions about Islam and refugees that could lead to violent action.
We’ve developed a brief guide for practitioners on the involuntarily celibate, or ‘incel’ community, which has been linked to a number of acts of violence in North America.
This report provides an effective and concise introduction to the nature and study of violent extremism for those less familiar with the subject and literature.
In the aftermath of a confrontation outside the Al-Rashid mosque in January 2019, the OPV surveyed members of the community to determine both their reactions to the event, and how they think various stakeholders, including the City of Edmonton, Edmonton Police Service and the community can respond to such events in the future.
Our Director of Research, Michael King, participated on a panel organized by the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism.
The OPV cooperated with the Canadian Practitioners’ Network to convene a panel of experts and community organizations, including representatives from Heritage Canada, MacEwan University and the African Canadian Civic Engagement Council.
