Art and Terror

Terrorist and insurgent groups use songs, poems, images, and videos as weapons, to recruit, justify violence, and to glorify their cause. Drawing on her Art & Terror research, Alexandra David shows how analysing this cultural output sheds light on motives, identities, and fears, and why ignoring it weakens efforts to prevent radicalisation and build peace.

To join Sandra Melone is Alexandra David, a Brussels-based political analyst and journalist, and the founder of Art & Terror, a platform examining how art and media shape conflict and extremist narratives. A former researcher at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel, she writes for The Times of Israel and Travel Tomorrow on culture, politics, and radicalisation.


Open to everyone | Booking required | Bar open

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ABOUT The Host
hosting the Series is Sandra Djuvara Melone, Ceo of Zancora Consulting, which she founded in 2021, with a strong expertise in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, crisis management, human rights and, not last, gender. With a vast experience on the ground, she has worked across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. She knows first hand what living through civil war is like. Sandra is the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Search for Common Ground, Europe, one of the world’s leading international non-governmental organisations working in peacebuilding and conflict transformation, where she's been involved in various roles since 1995. Sandra is a founding member of the European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation (EPCPT), of the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO), and of the Child Soldiers Initiative (CSI). Before dedicating her career to conflict transformation, Sandra worked in human rights advocacy with Amnesty International, and in international education.