Summit explores sources of extremist violence

A conference to explore ways to address the kind of youth radicalisation, that can lead to atrocities such as those in London and Manchester, opens tomorrow in Galway.

Hosted by the Unesco Child and Family Research Centre at NUI Galway, it will focus on the use of compulsory empathy education as a tool to prevent violent extremism, particularly among young people.

The International Family Support Conference will also highlight the perceived decline in empathy, care, and social solidarity, which, according to the organisers, is both an Irish and global concern among youth radicalisation.