Jonatan Kurzwelly is a Senior Researcher at PRIF. His research and writing explore different aspects of social and personal identities, nationalism, essentialism, racialisation, radicalisation and extremism. He is the Principal Investigator of the Constructive Advanced Thinking group which has co-authored this blogpost. He also leads a research project on Contradictions in De-radicalisation Processes, funded by the German Research Foundation.