Astrid Askenberger
Research Analyst, The Swedish Center for Preventing Violent Extremism (CVE)
2024, 2025
Astrid Askenberger is a research analyst at the Swedish Center for Preventing Violent Extremism (CVE). Prior to joining CVE, Astrid was co-founder and research lead at the non-profit organization Diverting Hate, which works to prevent violent misogyny. She holds an MA in Non-proliferation and Terrorism Studies from Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and a BA in Human Rights from the University of Lund. She specializes in gender-based extremism and terrorism, and frequently advises government and the private sector entities.
The Eradicating Hate Global Summit was both eye-opening and empowering. To have so many experts in the field of countering hate, all there sharing their expertise, working towards practical and real world solutions, was incredibly unique. It is this focus on meaningful conversations, answers, and solutions that makes Eradicating Hate so incredibly important. The spread of hate is a wicked problem, and the way Eradicating Hate approaches it is how we are going to solve it.
