Brett Kubicek
Manager Research, Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, Public Safety Canada
2021, 2022, 2023
Brett Kubicek joined the Canadian public service in 2005 after completing his PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University, as well as a BA from the University of British Columbia. He is the Manager Research for the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, housed at the Department of Public Safety, where he has served since its founding in 2016/17. The Canada Centre leads the federal government’s efforts to build capacity in Canada to counter radicalization to violence, online and offline. From 2007 to 2016 he served as Public Safety’s liaison for the National Justice Statistics Initiative, as well as the lead on the Psycho-social and community resilience community of practice for the Canadian Safety and Security Program. He was also the manager responsible for Public Safety’s Kanishka Project, a five-year $10M Government of Canada initiative investing in research on terrorism and counter-terrorism, and served as the Government liaison with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society since its founding in 2012.
My network of professionals working on countering hate in all its forms grew exponentially after attending Eradicate Hate in 2021. The myriad voices represented at Eradicate Hate, from big tech companies to academic researchers to those with lived experience, reinforced to me the importance of cross-cutting and collaborative approaches to counter hate and its devastating impacts on society. I’ve been fortunate to sustain and build those networks with many of those I met at Eradicate Hate in 2021.
